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Comment by Walt Foreman on October 19, 2014 at 10:21am

Ken, I think this one is about 8.5-9".  

Tony, I will definitely keep you apprised!  That's why we're raising them, in the hopes people will want to buy them.

Comment by Tony Livingston on October 18, 2014 at 6:57am

Totally into this. Please keep us in the loop as things progress. Wouldn't mind doing a little experimenting with those myself.

Comment by Slip Sinker on October 18, 2014 at 6:12am

nice specimen walt ... how long is that one?

Comment by Walt Foreman on October 18, 2014 at 6:09am

Definitely going to sell them. Don't know how they would fare in northerly latitudes but they seem to do fine here. Now we just wait for them to do their rabbit imitations next spring so we have fingerlings to sell.

Comment by Tony Livingston on October 18, 2014 at 5:12am

I thought so!

Now you've piqued my curiosity Walt. Why the hand painted? Are you attempting to raise some for sale, or as a novelty? I'm extremely curious as to how they fare/grow in the more northern latitudes....

Comment by LedHed on October 18, 2014 at 3:47am

Awesome BG

Comment by Walt Foreman on October 17, 2014 at 8:24pm

Thanks, Dick!  

Funny you should mention hand-painted bluegill, Tony - that's what it is.  I went down to the Apalachicola River the last week of May and brought back about thirty of them.  

I went down there last year in June and fished the Dead Lakes but only got seven; I didn't have the resources at that time to start a fresh pond, but a friend had a couple 1/4-acre ponds in a cow pasture with no fish in them, so I put them in there.  As of April we were thinking they hadn't spawned in those ponds because my buddy put a minnow trap in one of them and only caught fatheads which we had put in there a couple months before the hand-painteds; but then I fished those ponds in June and caught three out of one pond that would go 3" or 4" each, much smaller than the ones I had stocked last year, so I have them now from two different regions of the Apalachicola about forty miles apart.

Comment by Tony Livingston on October 17, 2014 at 6:38pm

Looks good Walt! The coloration reminds me a little of a hand-painted gill.

Comment by dick tabbert on October 17, 2014 at 5:50pm

Nice gill Walt love the orange on the underside.