What a Lucky Day!!!!

[Rays of Sunshine]

I caught 16-18 fish today. Primarily bluegills and 2 Green Sunfish. I had wanted some greens since the Bluegill X Green hybrid killed my other two. The bluegills were so colorful and stocky, I kept them.

I came across 2 fascinating bluegills, they had an inch thick horizontal pink color over the stripes. It was mostly over the body. Between the 2, there was a variation of the stripes underneath the pink. I am going to take pics tomorrow and maybe these two will be showing their pink.

A guy caught me a 12 inch yellow bullhead, I think. I was thinking about putting it in with the brown bullhead but it was roughed up from the wire basket the guy had it in.

The fish are in two 55's for now. I think I am going to take the 125 from the mudskippers. I might even use a 100 gallon stock tank also.

 

[garobsessed15]

we need pics!

 

[Rays of Sunshine]

Tomorrow night. Tanks will not be completely aquascaped.

 

[garobsessed15]

cannot wait til then! im sure they look great

 

[Rays of Sunshine]

The unusual pink color on one of bluegills. It was not showing the full amount of pink. This fish has already dominated the fish in the tank. Also, note the the details of the new bluegills. The tank shots are poor. When the water clears, I will post decent pictures.

 

[bigbadfish711]

I've caught a few of these bluegills with the pink coloring as well. I can't wait to see updates.

 

[Rays of Sunshine]

How long ago did you catch the bluegills with pink? How many did you catch? I wonder if this is a natural occurring variation or a farm fish variation that is stocked in lakes. I fished in the same spot for 3 days and caught 42 bluegills and only 2 have the pink.

 

[bigbadfish711]

Where did you catch these these guys from? Was it from a river or pond? I ask because the only ones that I have caught with this pink variant was in a pond. The is a local park called Ceder Rock Park. They have a pond that is stocked with mainly catfish along with bluegill, bass, crappie, carp, shell-cracker, and I have seen some goldfish swimming around. The pond has 2 feeders on it. They fill the feeders with bags of floating fish pellets. The bluegill are very thick and I have caught many with excellent coloring. It seems to me that the food might have some impact to the coloring. There is another pond in the park about 1/4 the size of this one. Not many people fish this pond and it does not have the feeders. The fish that I have caught in this pond seem to have just normal coloring.

I am not saying that the food is what causes the coloring. I am just making an observation.

 

[Mr.Geoff]

I've caught them with pink before. Where, i have no idea. We catch so many of them we kinda stop paying attention to it. We see it pretty often in my buddes farm pond around spawning time, and in the creeks i fish in the summer the smaller gills will all be pink slabbed.

 

[Rays of Sunshine]

Very interesting!! These fish are in a lake run by the county. The lake does have shell-cracker, bass, catfish and crappie. I don't think they feed the fish.

These bluegills are about 5 inches. I have a mixture of sizes under that, they have no pink.