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I've been fishing this industrial pond that's down by my house the last couple days. Sorry, no location. It's full of little bass, grass carp, mud cats and the occassional green sun fish. I went down there last night with my fly rod and caught around 10 bass with a black wooly bugger. The biggest went 14", and they averaged around 6". Lots of fun.
I went back down there this morning and didn't do quite as well, but I still did alright. 3 bass, all round 6-7" long. And I caught one green sunfish looking thing. I honestly don't know what it was. I know that there are more species of sunfish than anyone probly knows, but can you help me identify this fish? If it was a greenie then I have the state record. Hands down. This fish weighed about a pound, and was 9" long. I read the record was only 15oz, and the C&R record was only 10.5" long, so I'm really, really close at the very least. If it was then I'll have to go back down and try for him again. He's still swimming. Atleast that lake isn't too big so I have a decent chance of getting him with a few hard days fishing.
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Looks like a bluegill to me.
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Industrial pond?
Could be another "blinky"
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Yea looks like a bluegill to me aswell.
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Even though the picture is a bit fuzzy, Tube Dude is right, it looks like a green sunfish. Not only the white fins, but the head and body shape are a bit different than a bluegill would be of that size. I have a question though, can catches from private ponds qualify as state records? I didn't think they could.
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It is a green sunfish. I don't know of any other fish that has the outline on the fins like that. If the pic were more clear then I'd be able to say for 100% sure, but the highlighted fins make me believe it is a greenie. I'm guessing that it looks so dark because it had been dead for a while? If so, I hope you didn't eat anything out of a pond like that.
The person that first took me fishing for warm water fish told me that green sunfish have been known to interbreed with other warm water fish (primarily LMB and bluegill). I don't know whether or not to believe him. Reason tells me that he was probably full of it, but if by some chance he were correct then that be another option.
BTW...what in the heck was wrong with the first LMB you have in on there? It looks like he swam head first into a brick wall.
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hi Jerry don't mean to come of like a jerk BUT whats the big secert about the location of this pond i mean....whoa!!! its full of 6/7" bass i know if you said where it was i would surly log off drop everything and be there fishing ( NOT!!!! )
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Thanks guys. I'm pretty sure it was a greenie. I've just never seen one so frecking dark! I wonder if he was a spawner or something? One thing I know for sure is if I catch him again he's going on the wall.
That bigger bass I had a picture of was really stunted. All head and no body. I've caught a few like that around Utah but never to that extent.
The reason I didn't want to put out the exact location of this pond is because people around this area love to keep fish. Just this morning there was a jerk down there with 8 or 9 a stringer. I called the warden but he was too late. BTW, I asked him about a record coming from that pond, and he said I should be alright.
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I am with you the meat fishmen will take all the fish....
Small ponds can be fished out in know time and one that is close and can be fished is a gold mine...
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ok i can see the logic in that i guess i don't think that way often as i'm a 99.9% C & R fisherman
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I agree with Chris on this one. I would like to think that some comradery exists on this board. In fact, sharing information and tips is what makes this board so useful and worthwhile. I would surmise that a good percentage of us on the board release most of the time, but regardless, we would not be as reckless as the person who takes more than a limit of the "secret" pond.
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I second what TD wrote. There are many excellent fishermen who used to post regularly on BFT who rarely if ever post any more. There are various reasons for this, but I know one primary reason is because they got tired of whenever they reported in a fishing report that they had done well, that they received posts requesting to know exactly where they fished and to know exactly what they used to catch the fish. If fishermen choose to voluntarily share this information that is fine; however, if they also choose not to share this information we should respect that decision. I would always choose the opportunity to read a nice fishing report, without ALL of the details, than to have no report to read. Many of us take our fishing extremely seriously, and if we go to great lengths (for example, I spent several years (most of it futile) gaining my sturgeon knowledge of methods and locations of where I could catch them from my boat -- before I even fished for them once) and expense in gaining this knowledge, we are not about to share this knowledge with everyone who just happens to ask, or especially not to broadcast it to the world on an open forum. The way I see it, fellow BFT members can either respect members who are not willing to lose their valuable locations and continue reading (and perhaps get inspired from reading them) their fishing reports, or they can continue harrassing them for not "SHARING ALL" and cause them to quit making posts. I step down from my soap box.
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Aaaaaaaaay-men!
Trying to ascertain how much lake traffic is driven by web traffic is probably impossible, but I'm not willing to risk gridlock on my favorite fishing holes just for bulletin board bragging rights.
My favorite fishing holes? The quiet ones.
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] Please help me to keep my name out there!!! I've already had offers from sponsors as a result of my green sunfish prowess. I'm holding out for a new boat though.