[StriperFan]

Originally Posted by Alphahawk

The Bluegill is not a true hybrid. Those fish were all the rage when they first came about...Ken Holyoak....I think his name was....started all of the hybrid Gills with his Georgia Giant. What was never said at first that if you happen to get some males mixed with females or vice versa...you would get the F2 and then from them the F3 strain and so on. Then you wound up with a pond full of stunted sunfish after a few years. I stocked some in a small lake I owned back in 1986. I did not harvest the fish and that is what happened. People still stock them but most know that in a few years you will need to kill the pond off and start again....thus the stocking of the Copper Nose because of their growth rate and it is a natural strain of Bluegill. Now I am not a fisheries biologist...LOL......but this is my understanding of them.

That makes sense. Natural is always going to be better than the shortcut in the long run.
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