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Fish ID help

Discussion in 'Fish Taxidermy' started by Cajun Dan, Mar 26, 2015.

  1. Mar 26, 2015 #1
    Cajun Dan

    Cajun Dan New Member

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    Is this a bluegill with unique colors? Or a completely different fish? It looks very close to a bluegill in form, but I've never seen this coloration. The gill cover is purple/blue-ish. It wasn't very big (hand sized). Caught in a southern Georgia lake.
     

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  3. Mar 27, 2015 #2
    Frank E. Kotula

    Frank E. Kotula master, judge, instructor

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    Personally with a black dot in the back of the soft dorsal yep The coloration I see a lot in spawning gills.
     

  5. Mar 27, 2015 #3
    Cecil

    Cecil Well-Known Member

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    Coppernose male bluegill. Light color is due to the body of water it came out of. A quarry or phosphate pit? If you look closely you can see the "copper" area anterior and above the ear tab. Also the barring pattern that I've seen on coppernose vs. northern strain is more solid on the coppernose as in this one.

    Ear tab looks a little small for a male, but judging by the body conformation this is an immature male fish.
     
  6. Mar 29, 2015 #4
    Cajun Dan

    Cajun Dan New Member

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    Thanks for the replies. I was pretty sure it was a bluegill, I just never seen one with this coloration. A guy I know took 12-15 of these a couple years back when they were only an inch long and transplanted them from a lake into a homemade, one acre pond. At the time, he thought they were pumpkinseeds. Now he has tons of these in his pond all with a similar coloration. The pictured fish was his nephews first ever and he wants a reproduction done with the same colors but I'm not a fish guy so it'll probably take me forever to figure out. BTW, anyone know where to get a 7 in bluegill repro?

    Oh, and thanks for introducing me to the coppernose bluegill. I've now researched it and educated myself a little more on fish species.