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Nice 8 inch Chin-qua-pin as they are called in Louisiana.....
Caught about a half dozen of these specimens today.....really a beautiful fish during the spawn....the colors are vibrant and the male gets very dark.......
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Comment by carl hendrix on March 11, 2013 at 12:18pm
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look at these colors! fantastic!
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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 11, 2013 at 8:49am
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I hear you David.....each species has it's unique place in the sunfish world........the dark spawners in the Shellcracker line look very cool.....the redear is so pronounced against that body color.......
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Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on March 11, 2013 at 8:32am
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I wanna paint my boat in this pattern... when I get a boat, that is.
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I want to catch a big shellcracker with these distinctive colors and have him mounted as such.....they look really cool right out of the water.....
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I love it when the shellcrackers are dark and the ear flap pops like this fish....
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Shellcraaaaacker!
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Comment by Greg McWilliams on March 18, 2012 at 3:17pm
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BEAUTIFUL FISH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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