STONEY LAKE, BULL (BLUE) GILLS

this pic sucks and dosen't wk in showing the size i have a fish next to something of reference

Still annoyed with the ( funny pics ) comment and the ( skepticism ) comment. Now really annoyed with the (we fisherman lie a bit about size ) comment. Most people that fish don't lie about the fish they catch. I don't lie about the fish I catch, I have pictures and witnesses to maintain the integrity of my fishing stories. That aside too bad about not beating the world record with your phantom 16 inch bluegill. But congratulations on beating the Ontario bluegill record apparently more than a dozen times, with all those 12 inch bluegill. The Ontario record for bluegill was set on June 25 1995. The bluegill was 11.1 inches long and weighed 1.83 pounds. If you send your pictures in and have a witness maybe that will be enough continuity of evidence for them to give you the new Ontario record for bluegill. I am still in disbelief that my 17.5 inch crappie was not big enough to be the new Ontario crappie record. The record is 17 inches but they go by weight and just add the length and girth if it's available for the document. Good luck on putting your pictures up for us to see. And good luck on your future bluegill fishing adventures.

Also hoping to see some photos of some giant bluegills. The photo that was attached is not of a bluegill sunfish (like the photo of the fish Crappeeman had posted) but looks like a pumpkinseed sunfish. That said, it may also be a hybrid as well. In some lakes, pumpkinseed and bluegill sunfish will hybridize and create fish that are slightly bigger than the parental species. It's hard to tell for sure. Maybe a big fish but it's really hard to tell size from a photo without some kind of scale in the photo for reference.

You are correct it is not a bluegill. It is a natural pumpkinseed approximately 7 inches long. I catch them all the time as well as bluegill like the pictures I posted earlier. Here is a picture of a 6 inch pumpkinseed I caught while sitting in the boat, waiting for the sun to go down so I could catch monster crappie.

Sorry for the blurry picture. This is a small bluegill same lure. Same thing sitting in the boat, waiting for the sun to go down to catch 13 to 16 inch crappie.

Hey CM,
The blurry photo may be of a pumpkingill or maybe even a small pumpkinseed. That red "ear" mark makes it not a pure bluegill as well there are some of those wiggly light blue stripes across the low jaw and cheeks characteristic of pumpkinseeds but at the same time, it's not as brightly coloured as a pumpkinseed and looks to have some vertical bands/bars, which are bluegill characters. And to make things even more complicated, there can be hybrids that back-cross with parental species and then some of the parental species' colours become even more muted. Some lakes have many hybrids. It's not so straightforward sometimes in lakes where there are more than one species of 'sunfish' (by the way rock bass, LM and SM bass and crappie are also part of the "sunfish" family too - they all have a very interesting nest guarding behaviour by the males).

Yup you are correct on all those points, thank you for noticing that. So many hybrids everywhere. I would really like to see more of those Blue/Green Crappie I was catching. Not a hybrid but a great geographic colour. Similar to how there is green small mouth bass and brown small mouth bass. And then those small mouth with the distinct racing stripes. LOL.