Yes, up into New York and spotted areas down the east coast. Very wide range. It may have been a warmouth, but the map doesn't show the NE area as part of their range, more of a Mississippi valley kind of range.
DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] FrankenGill- something is 'fishy' here... > Don, > > Thanks! Neat to be able to identify fishies like that. Did the > distribution map show them as being native to Maryland in the sweep from > the Great Lakes to the Gulf? > > Thanks, > Mark > > > At 09:16 AM 7/11/2002 -0600, you wrote: > >Looking in a book with bass, bluegill, and sunfish photos and > >descriptions... > > > >Under the bass section, a rock bass would fit the description, if it had red > >eyes. If not, maybe a juvie warmouth bass. Under the sunfish catagory, of > >which family the bluegill is (Lepomis), seven varieties are shown, including > >the 'gill'. Body shape ranges from the hand-shaped bluegill to > >half-gill/half-bass body. All fins are similar and have 10 spines on the > >dorsal fin, both bass and sunfish, and have the 'ear'. The most 'bassy' > >looking mouth areas belong to the green sunfish, the redbreast sunfish, and > >the spotted sunfish. The green sunfish has a lot of color and a mouth that > >extends to below the middle of the eye, and a pronounced gill flap spot. So > >this is probably the 'Frankenfish'. Distribution is from the Great Lakes to > >the Gulf of Mexico, the entire Miss valley & Midwest. One alternate name > >(local name) is the 'sand bass'. Also, the spotted sunfish is similar, but > >lacks the flashy coloration. > > > >DonO > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Mark Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:45 AM > >Subject: Re: [VFB] FrankenGill > > > > > > > Jamieson, > > > > > > Not sure. Never seen this kind of fish here before. Wasn't any > > > green on the fish, though, not sure if that makes a difference. Body had > > > the same coloration typical of a regular blue gill. Also, the fins didn't > > > look much like gill fins, more like bass fins. > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > At 09:29 AM 7/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > > > > > > Mark, I'm not sure but green sunfish look like a bluegill with a big > > > > mouth. So that could be? > > > > > > > > Jamieson > > > >
