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Posted on 6/7/18 at 4:21 pm to GaPhan
Easiest way to tell them apart is to put a redworm (pink wiggler) on the hook and throw it out. if you use a bobber and you catch one it ain't a shellcracker. However if you take the float off and tightline to the bottom and get bit it's a shellcracker.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 4:22 pm to AlxTgr
In places where people catch them both frequently, nobody calls that bright blue fish a shell cracker. Nobody. In Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and north Florida, the redear is called a shell cracker and the little blue one is called a pumpkinseed.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 4:28 pm to Riseupfromtherubble
You see it on charts and it's all over the net, so some people call Pumpkinseeds Shellcrackers. It's not debatable. Hell, we call crappie white perch. They are obviously not perch, nor are they a sack of milk.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 4:30 pm to Riseupfromtherubble
So, what would one call a perch that is all orange? Got them in my pond.
A perch is a perch if I can pass a knife thru it.
Oh, grew up in New Orleans and never hear of the word bream till I moved north of BR. And that goes the same for green trout.
A perch is a perch if I can pass a knife thru it.
Oh, grew up in New Orleans and never hear of the word bream till I moved north of BR. And that goes the same for green trout.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 5:33 pm to bayoudude
Never saw a flier until I moved to VA. They're thick up here.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:29 pm to Clyde Tipton
Does this have a local name yet?
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:39 pm to AutoYes_Clown
I’ve heard someone call them a St. John perch once. Don’t know if that’s something common.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 10:29 pm to AUTimbo
So those fish I think are goggle eye but have no meat are green sunfish.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 10:35 pm to AutoYes_Clown
Those are the invasive Rio Grande Cichlids correct?
Posted on 6/7/18 at 10:40 pm to bayoudude
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Those are the invasive Rio Grande Cichlids correct?
Correct. Prevalent in the canals and bayous in New Orleans.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 10:48 pm to Sasquatch Smash
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Those are the invasive Rio Grande Cichlids correct?
Correct. Prevalent in the canals and bayous in New Orleans.
Are Rio Grande's good to eat?
Posted on 6/8/18 at 6:49 am to doublecutter
From Texas Parks and wildlife,
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The Rio Grande cichlid is a fine fighter, and easily caught. It is considered good table fare. The Texas state record was caught at Lake Dunlap in 2011 and weighed 2.02 pounds.
Posted on 6/8/18 at 2:45 pm to doublecutter
I fried up a few I caught in City Park awhile back. Nothing to write home about, but it is basically a Tilapia. So no real flavor, but firm white meat.
Posted on 6/8/18 at 5:06 pm to Clyde Tipton
Those redbreast can get YUGE
Posted on 6/9/18 at 10:06 am to AUTimbo
I've caught hundreds of shell crackers under a cork, both in FLA and in La, Flat lake.
In fact everyone I've ever caught was under a cork or on an ultralight with beetlespins.
In fact everyone I've ever caught was under a cork or on an ultralight with beetlespins.
Posted on 6/10/18 at 2:28 am to Boat Motor Bandit
Goggle Eye are not Warmouth. True Warmouth identification only has Warmouths reaching a maximum of a few inches in length. Goggle Eye are Green Sunfish which have a substantially bigger body. I think the confusion comes with 1) the name, as Goggle Eye do indeed have very large mouths and 2) Most pictures of Green Sunfish do a poor job representing the color patterns seen in South Louisiana.
Posted on 6/10/18 at 2:33 am to PVillePandG
That, or a Rock Bass..but the Goggle Eye we catch on the Sabine and the rock bass we identified in the French Parishes when I used to identify fish for a living looked much different.
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