06-18-2021, 06:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-18-2021, 06:57 PM by Springbuck1.)
It's a greenie, unless it's a bluegill/green sunfish hybrid, which I'm starting to catch a lot of for some reason. I've cause a lot of really dark green, almost black sunfish at least on their backs. The blue lightning on his cheeks is a good indicator, but the white and/or yellow along the rims of his tail and fins is another.
The hybrids I keep catching, mostly at Kaysville Ponds with my kid, but also a lot in Mantua, are a real crap-shoot on appearance. Some are shaped like bluegills, have side bars, but with huge mouths and light colored edging along the fins. Others are shaped like greenies,. There is always a mix of the traits, but like someone shuffled the deck. Sometimes they look for all the world like a pumpkinseed. Almost none have real bluegill-looking gills or the brick red breast, and under their chis is usually a weird mottled look like the back of a burbot.
Yours has bluegill eye coloration, to my eye.
The hybrids I keep catching, mostly at Kaysville Ponds with my kid, but also a lot in Mantua, are a real crap-shoot on appearance. Some are shaped like bluegills, have side bars, but with huge mouths and light colored edging along the fins. Others are shaped like greenies,. There is always a mix of the traits, but like someone shuffled the deck. Sometimes they look for all the world like a pumpkinseed. Almost none have real bluegill-looking gills or the brick red breast, and under their chis is usually a weird mottled look like the back of a burbot.
Yours has bluegill eye coloration, to my eye.