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Thought you all might enjoy this one.  A nine pound LMB (weighed) was found floating belly-up in Lower Otay Res. (San Diego) and dead or dying. Wedged sideways in its mouth was a 10-inch bluegill (measured, not weighed.) Reminds me of that python in the 'glades that died trying to eat a small 'gator.

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Great post JB !9lb LMBass choking on a 10" "GILL" .(looks like a Coppernose with Green SF orange tipped fins.).This should tell us something about big baits this time of year!

Interesting about the GSF markings. El Capitan is currently the only lake in San Diego County listed as having GSF on the SDFish website, but I'm quite sure they used to be on the species list at Lake Jennings a long time ago.

They don't even list RES as being in Lower Otay, so maybe it is - or at least is _supposed_ to be BG-only for sunfish there. Of course, fish have a way of getting around, sometimes naturally, sometimes by illegal stocking. I know one thing: if I were a lake manager in an area where everyone was scared of getting infested with quagga mussels and some lakes already had them, I'd pre-emptively start ordering hatchery trucks full of RES to put into my lake and try to get out in front of the problem. The redears won't stop them, but they'll at least slow them down, while getting huge in the process.

Man, that's just..yikes. Talking about the last meal. Bruce shown me a video of the "snackers" (BGs Bruce and his dad caught that day) that was offered to his "guests". They hammered those offering like they were bite size snacks. My jaws just dropped seeing them in action up close and personal like that. Just..spine tingling.

link to vid please?

I guess that is why the bass boys fish those giant swimbaits with success. 

That's nuts!

I don't think there's any GSF in this fish. Some Coppers do display the orange coloration on their fins, it may be a regional thing.

Thanks Tony I didnt realize some Coppernose have Orange tinge on their fins.

 

 

Tony is right - that's a common coloration on fins of coppernose.  Sometimes the fins are tinged white, sometimes orange.

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