In the video when I said "That is exactly what that is". Well I guess those were words of excitement from seeing the fish. I really am not sure if it is a cross or not. But I have been looking at my old Red Ear pics and the ones from the NET all morning and to me the head on this fish just says Bluegill. All the Red Ear I have seen have a much more streamlined head. I am going to send link to Jim Habera and have him ID fish for me. It is not a matter of "I am right". I am just curious is it a cross or just a Shellcracker with a basketball head.....LOL. When Occidental owned those lake they kept all of those lakes stocked with hybrid Bluegill. It is certainly not one of those but you wonder since so many specie of the Bluegill family were in the lake what type of cross breeding is possible. Those lakes are also full of Black Nose Crappie....and I mean thousands. But for whatever the reason even though you can catch 100 ten inch fish a day none of them have any shoulders on them. They are not sickly looking but just not much meat on them. I know if they get to the 12 to 17 inch range.....and fill out in girth.....it could turn into a Crappie paradise.
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