2 small hybrid bluegill

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Comment by Zach Pierce on June 22, 2012 at 9:18am

Did any of the HBG you stocked look like mine above?  Do you have any pics of your small fingerlings?

Comment by Tony Livingston on June 22, 2012 at 8:04am

I can't tell you anything that you don't already know. The bottom fish is a GSF, while the top is a HBG. Exactly where that top fish fits in the grand scheme of things? Hard to say. I will say that it's already fatter than the GSF.... that's hopefull.

Comment by Zach Pierce on June 22, 2012 at 6:29am

This is all I had in my pond about 2 years ago. As you can see the bottom fish is a GSF and the top fish is the HBG I purchased. Not sure I got top quality as they now appear to be FX cross. Only time will tell what I really was sold.

Comment by Zach Pierce on July 30, 2010 at 4:25am

Ok if I do have GSF and not HBG is there any way I can prove for sure what they are?

Can they be tested?

Can I do anything about it?

Comment by Walt Foreman on July 29, 2010 at 11:18pm

Zach, do you have any more photos of the sunfish from your pond so I can help you better identify what you have?

Comment by Walt Foreman on July 29, 2010 at 5:45pm

Green sunfish most definitely have the yellow belly and fins. And I'm fairly certain the lower fish in the photo above is a pure-strain green sunfish; I've caught lots of them, and lots of hybrid bluegill, and that's the coloration I see on pure GSF. I recently sampled a pond (I have a pond management company) that was overrun with GSF, and that's exactly what they looked like; note how the body is more elongated than the upper fish, and also the smaller spots in more even rows as opposed to the broken, wavy-line pattern on the top fish. The top fish does appear to be a hybrid, but if you're seeing more fish like the bottom one, you didn't get what you paid for.

Comment by Zach Pierce on July 29, 2010 at 11:59am

I was kind of worried about that, but I have seen some variations of Hybrids look this way, or at least that is what was posted on the internet.

We always called these black pearch.

To be honest I do not think the Green Sunfish have the yellow belly and fins, or at least the last ones I caught this size didn't anyway.
I can keep my fingers crossed.

Comment by Walt Foreman on July 28, 2010 at 9:00pm

Ditto what Jacob said - the bottom fish is a pure green sunfish. How long ago were they stocked? You may have gotten rooked by the hatchery. A guy I buy fish from told me that some hatcheries routinely pass off green sunfish as hybrid bluegill, trusting that many customers won't know the difference.

Comment by jacob wilson on July 28, 2010 at 8:05pm

the one at the bottom is a green sunfish