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BTW ...whats up with the bluegill with the orange cheek spots and orange tails and pectorals
and really bright orange breast plate ?
i only ketch that coloration in that lake ....
what say yawl on this fish ?
on side note they cool coming up in circles in clear water ,,,,just saying
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Your bluegill has characteristics of both the northern subspecies and coppernose subspecies of bluegill. However, it doesn't look fully like either. It's my guess that it is a mix of the two subspecies which would explain the red tail, red breast, and red fins, but not the cheek marks.
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Nothing for sure but a bluegill cross with some redbreast somewhere in it’s history.
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Interesting , never thought of a redbreast cross lineageOriginally Posted by skeetbum
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I disagree. Regular northern strain bluegill have bright red breasts like that. Especially the males when they're spawning. Nothing in that fish says it has any redbreast ancestry.
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I disagree also. Males coming off northern beds can be that hard red and off the same bed softer reds. Whether it is a strain or result of diet I do not know, but I have certainly seen male bluegills colored like that during the spawn here in Minnesota where we have neither coppernose nor shellcrackers.
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