Given the source, I would say it's a hybrid.
--- Chip Rinehart <crin_at_glassmaster.com> wrote:
> Pics of this fish are at: http://www.farmertodd.com/nanfa/nick/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nick Zarlinga [SMTP:njz_at_clevelandmetroparks.com]
> >
> > Looking for input on this fish that we caught in South Carolina two
> weeks
> > ago. Appears to be a sunfish but an open to comments. Although
> the
> > picture
> > does not depict it very well, there were several alternating
> verticle blue
> > and red bars. The coloring was rather nice. It's a new one for
> this
> > "yankee". Thanks.
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