September specks...(pics)

[yankee doodler]

Wife and I took day trip up to Hardy lake in Newaygo Co. and managed to catch a handful amidst all the crazys out for one last fling for the summer.

Two blacks at 12", and one at 14 1/2". Mama caught a NICE smallie and it was a hoot watchin' her wrestle with it. Made her day for sure. One fat gill and one fat pumpkinseed to boot.

[Cane Pole]

Supper.

We got punkinseeds here, but they don't look like that one. Ours gotta lot of blue coloring and only get 3-5 inches long. The look like they are some kind of exotic fish. Really pretty fish.

Tom

[crappieken]

Looks like what we call red ear sunfish here in Illinois.
Redear Sunfish

[IceWarriorGill]

Those are some really nice Crappies and a nice Gill and a beautiful Pumpkinseed (Redears/Shellcrackers don't have the blue rays on their faces--unless they're a hybrid and result from a cross with a Pumpkinseed as one of the parents)!!!!!

[Cane Pole]

I called this a pumkin seed all my life only because it what my Granddad called it a pumkin seed. Looked it up.

Dang. Never too old to learn somethin'.

[slabbandit]

Nice smallie! Awesome pics.

[IceWarriorGill]

That's a longear sunfish, Cane Pole, check out the clear to white margin around the gill flap or operculum flap and they only get 3-6 inches long on average... They're beautiful fish!!! I used to catch alot of them in the rivers and creeks where I grew up in Virginia!!!

[Cane Pole]

That's a longear sunfish, Cane Pole, check out the clear to white margin around the gill flap or operculum flap and they only get 3-6 inches long on average... They're beautiful fish!!! I used to catch alot of them in the rivers and creeks where I grew up in Virginia!!!

Ok. That is what the grand kids catch at the boat dock in mid summer. They must like hot water.

[catman]

great fish and super pics.

[Fatman]

Dinner TIME!!!!!! Nice fish

Fatman