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Good panfishing today
Posted on: July 26, 2009 9:21 PM, by Greg Laden
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Is that a walleye? Never seen one before
Posted by: Doug Alder | July 26, 2009 10:26 PM
No, it is a "sunfish" (not sure which species exactly ... we have our local lore but that is not helpful.)
Posted by: Greg Laden | July 26, 2009 10:47 PM
Looks kind of small, but tasty.
I'm guessing crappy (pronounced "croppy.")
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | July 26, 2009 11:08 PM
I want fish now. It's a damn shame the only fish I can get a hold of is the morally reprehensible kind.
Posted by: Jason Thibeault | July 26, 2009 11:22 PM
Poor fishyfish.
Posted by: becca | July 27, 2009 12:14 AM
Actually, Mike, I'm pretty sure this is a Lepomis of some kind, not a crappie (which is Pomoxis). It is either a pumkinseed or a female blugill.
Posted by: Greg Laden | July 27, 2009 3:48 AM
bluegill.
Posted by: asha. | July 27, 2009 4:05 AM
Figured. Oh, and sorry, my internet connection keeps crapping out.
Posted by: Greg Laden | July 27, 2009 4:12 AM
Asha: My Internet Connection is going down! Email me nre fishing times! And go to sleep, it's late!
Posted by: Greg Laden | July 27, 2009 4:20 AM
Not being expert on sunfish, I'll guess a bluegill x green sunfish hybrid. The long pectoral fin is bluegillish, but the mouth looks too large for a bluegill and the white borders on the pelvic fins are like a green sunfish.
Posted by: Jim Thomerson | July 27, 2009 1:35 PM
I like your idea regarding the borders (I had had the same thought) but the large mouth is said to be a feature of greenies. Yet, there seems to be a sort of orgy going on down there anyway, so hybrids are not at all out of the question .
Posted by: Greg Laden | July 27, 2009 2:14 PM
Big un, ainnit?
Bait? Tackle?
Did you set the drag light and let it fight or did you just horse it on in?
Posted by: Crudely Wrott | July 27, 2009 10:11 PM
Light tackle 6 lb test, small bucktail jig with a leech, drag set as low as it would go without the reel falling apart.
That fish was not big. The one I caught the day before was HUGE but I didn't have the damn camera. The fish you see here is the one I caught while trying to reconstruct the previous day's catch.
Posted by: Greg Laden | July 27, 2009 11:53 PM
Looks like a warmouth aka google-eye to me. They do hybridize with green and pumpkinseed sunfish so everyone could be right.
Posted by: Cthulhu's minion | July 28, 2009 4:34 AM
Someday I'm going to write a post on the biogeography and stuff of the sun fishes.
This does look just like a warmouth, (Lepomis gulosus). My first reaction was that that is a warmer water southern species, but I can't actually think of a reason to rule it out other than that the DNR has never reported them being in this lake. But the more I look at sunfish iformation the less comfortable I am drawing any conclusions.
Further study is needed....
Posted by: Greg Laden | July 28, 2009 9:15 AM
... then I suddenly discover that in Mn warmouth is found only in the Mississppi. However, this lake drains into boy river, which drains into a lake through which the Mississippi passes. so....
Posted by: Greg Laden | July 28, 2009 9:17 AM
All the sunfish have been widely stocked in ponds so finding a warmouth there would not be odd if they can survive the winters. For that matter a green x warmouth hybrid may well be more cold tolerent. I seem to remember a local hatchery selling bluegill x green x warmouth hybrids and they are known to hybridize in nature so might be an intergrade.
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