DarkEdge Posted June 26, 2010 Report Share Posted June 26, 2010 Headed out to Beaverdams, fished at Marlatts for a few hours today. Met up with Luvevolution, caught some pannies, but no bass. Did catch a rather interesting fish. I've spent about an hour looking it up, and seems like it's a hybrid bluegill/rock bass. I took a mess of pictures, I'll get posted as soon as I get them off the camera. EDIT Here's the pics: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flywire Posted June 26, 2010 Report Share Posted June 26, 2010 Probably a Warmouth, friend of mine got one that looked like one the other day...I was down there this morning, got one bass and left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkEdge Posted June 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2010 Got the bass on the east side of Marlatts, right off the flow tubes under the road? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ketchican Kid Posted June 26, 2010 Report Share Posted June 26, 2010 Hers a pic of a warmouth if that helps. I have a fish of ontario book and it says that warmouth sunfish has only been caught in long point, point pelee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkEdge Posted June 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2010 It was dark green, had stripes like a perch, blue streaks on it's face and orange pectoral fins like a rock bass, and the dark gill plate circles like a bluegill. I'll get the pictures up in a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ketchican Kid Posted June 27, 2010 Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 ive caught the exact same looking fish! i think its a green sunfish bluegil/pumpkinseed hybrid. These are pictures of green sunfish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted June 27, 2010 Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 ive caught one of those there as well looked to be a cross between sunfish and perch to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little cleo Posted June 27, 2010 Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 Sunfish and Perch won't hybridize. Sunfish and sunfish will, and there are a lot of different colorations of sunfish. I would say the fish you have here, dark edge, is just a sunfish cross of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkEdge Posted June 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 So far, the only thing we know for sure is it's a hybrid. It's got the same dark vertical lines of a bluegill, the orange fins of a redbreast, but one thing's still bothering me. It was, at best, five inches long. Yet it's mouth was big enough for me to stick my thumb in. I'd never be able to do that with any sunfish. It's got the tail of a rock bass, as well as the mouth. So.... what we have here, is a mystery to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkEdge Posted June 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 Doing a bit more research, I believe it to be a green sunfish/bluegill cross. It's got the right fin colour, the right shape, and all the right marks to be a green sunfish, but the bluegill makes it much darker. Mystery solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvevolution Posted June 27, 2010 Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 it was a cool looking fish for sure. I've never seen anything quite like it, anywhere else that I've fished.....................and then you caught that little one that was barely 2 or 3 inches, but exactly the same. the mouth on it was absolutely huge for the size of the fish and even the little one took the same hook in the mouth, which tells how big the mouth really is. I was drop jawed for sure. LOL. it was also very cool to see that dead 8 inch Crappie floating on the surface..............not cool that it was dead and floating, but cool to see that there are Crappie in that pond. I've never caught one there, or even heard of them being in there, so it was a nice surprise to see it in there, even if it was dead. that Bass that the older gentleman caught on the white bucktail spinner was very big for that pond. I'm guessing it was about 4+lbs by the size of it. the one I caught recently weighed 3lbs 7oz and this one was at least 6 inches longer than the one I caught it was nice meeting up with you today and get a bit of fishing done. we'll have to do it again some time. hoping I don't get skunked on the lure chucking again. I'm gonna keep going till I get something like the results I got at Port D marina the other week. gonna go to Queenston Dock at lunch time, to see what I can muster up down there. Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishcrusher Posted June 27, 2010 Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 greensunfish. i have caught many in marlatts as has my buddy lunkers only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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