So I've recently heard of the reasoning behind bright red fish existing, and that being for the ability to be seen by potential mates in tanned/dark water. However, I have recently taken an interest in redbreast sunfish. The ones in the lake I fish, being a pretty clear and rocky lake, are pretty pale and I never see the trademark red breast in them. Either that or I'm fishing the wrong parts of the lake, I'm sure there's a swamp or blackwater inlet somewhere around there. That leads us to the purpose of this thread- from what I can see, redbreasts seem to be brighter when living in back/blackwater creeks, I'm assuming this is tied to the red for attraction thing, and by that logic, theoretically if I were to catch and keep one, I should keep it in a blackwater tank?
