I appreciate the offer, but I wasn't able to get a shot of it. The camera
lens was still fogged at that point. There are many different
possibilities. We were in range for bluegill, warmouth, green, redbreast,
redear, or spotted. Dustin remarked at the time that it most resembled a
flier, but we can be sure it wasn't that. The few hybrids I have kept in
the past have always done well.
Steven A. Ellis
Kennesaw, GA
At 06:18 PM 7/30/02 -0500, you wrote:
>If you have a photo of that hybrid sunfish "Yourguessisas goodasmineis" I
>can probably ID it. I have been getting pretty good at doing this. Odds are
>for starters you can narrow it down to fish only found in that body of
>water. That is the easy part. The hard part is depending on which parent was
>male and female can create strikingly different results in the hybrid young.
>
>Hybrids are good aquarium fish, usually very colorful and not shy to eat. I
>have a select couple of hybrids now, greenXpumpkinseeds and Warmouth X
>bluegills. I raised the greenseeds from young smaller than a dime, and the
>wargills are from a recent fishing trip. The wargills eat pellets like I
>bought these fish from a hatchery.
>
>Ray
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