081714- BEST FISH OF THE DAY 8.75 INCH P'SEED

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Comment by carl hendrix on August 18, 2014 at 6:40am

looks like you have them figured out Ken!!  real nice p;seed buddy!!

Comment by Slip Sinker on August 18, 2014 at 5:19am

thanks guys!

i fished parallel to a flooded gravel road bed that harbors a lot of spawners in the spring. i was adding on to my Wixom lake topo map when i noticed panfish close to the bottom and tight to the edge of the weeds. fishing back to back cold fronts.so weedlines stop at 12 ft on this reservoir so i concentrated my efforts at that depth

Comment by Leo Nguyen on August 17, 2014 at 9:51pm

Great find Ken. Looks like a nice day of tanning as well.

Comment by Jim Gronaw on August 17, 2014 at 8:57pm

The opercular tab is large and broad, like a male bluegill, yet has a very slight white crescent on the edge of it. The lower cheek and jaw region has the wavy blue lines of the pumpkinseed. Banding on the sides are a bluegill trait. The customary dark 'blotch' found on the soft, top dorsal base of a pure bluegill is absent.

Pretty sure it's a great hybrid. I thought it was only a matter of time untill you ran into some of these, with all the 'seeds and bluegills you have been catching this summer, I figured there had to be some overlap of prime spawning areas for both species.

Comment by Bruce Condello on August 17, 2014 at 7:29pm

Great fish!!!  Looks like some bluegill genetics involved there...  :)

Comment by Slip Sinker on August 17, 2014 at 7:27pm

no red edged gill flap

Comment by Jim Gronaw on August 17, 2014 at 7:26pm

Ken...I think this fish is a big male pumpkingill...great fish!