Out fishing with my wife yesterday and she caught a very strange colored pumpkinseed. Looking at the picture, the bottom one has a much different color pattern and in sunlight, it is a light blue in color. Someone mentioned it is a pumpkin gill. Anyone caught one of these before?
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I have been told the red ear makes them pumpkin seeds but without, they are what are known as hybrids. Maybe someone else can confirm.
They both look like pure Pumpkins to me. Most of the time there is variation to the colors and markings. The red on the ear flaps look pretty small but normal.
Maybe somethin similar to a blue perch???
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If they have the red on their ear, here they would be a red eared sunfish. Called a red ear for short.
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If they have the red on their ear, here they would be a red eared sunfish. Called a red ear for short.
Two different fish; Pumpkinseed is Lepomis gibbosus and Red Ear is Lepomis microlophus
Can pumpkinseeds still have red on their ear? I always assumed the red on their ear made them a red ear. I didn’t look at the picture real close to see if they had the red on them. I was going off of the first reply that said he thought the red ear made them a pumpkinseed.
Can pumpkinseeds still have red on their ear? I always assumed the red on their ear made them a red ear. I didn’t look at the picture real close to see if they had the red on them. I was going off of the first reply that said he thought the red ear made them a pumpkinseed.
Correct. Pumpkinseeds have a red spot on the end of the ear.
I was also wondering if this was a hybrid. Darker colored fish but has some coloration consistent with a pumpkinseed but also has a black ear consistent with a bluegill. The lake it came from has both sunfish.
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I believe that its a Hybrid
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