Shellcracker (Redear Sunfish) for Idaho?

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They would definitely be fun to have around. I grew up in the south and could always tell the difference in fight when you hooked into a big one. They seem to be downright agressive at times. They would be a fun experiment in addition to bluegill in some of those more warm water fisheries, but what would really be fun is rock bass. They look kinda like bluegill but get bigger, have bigger mouths, and fight really hard. When I was a kid, people called rock bass shellcrackers, which is wrong, but they also called bluegill perch. Go figure.
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