Hey, A friend caught this at a private dam and

Loams

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Hey,

A friend caught this at a private dam and we are not sure if it is a bluegill or not?
 

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Pipeman

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Loams wrote:
Hey,

A friend caught this at a private dam and we are not sure if it is a bluegill or not?
That is a kurper species, where did you catch it? What province? Could be a blue kurper... but difficult to say from photo. Judging from the coloration and fins my best guess would be a blue kurper.

Here is a picture of a female (left) and male (right) bluegill, note the flap on the gill, it is quite a prominent feature:
 

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Loams

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Yes it is a huge private dam lol.... I love that place....

Anyway, it's in the Northwest province, Near the Botswana border if that helps?

Thank you for the input so long
 

Pipeman

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I am not hundred percent sure, but I think they breed more than once a year! I see you are in Fourways, what types off fishing do you do?
 

Fanie

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That looks like a male vlei to me. You can ID a vlei by it's blue lower lip, and they do get bigger than that !
 

Loams

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Pipeman, I do mostly Bass fishing and at the coast I do some spin fishing for shad and garrick and anything else that is willing to take my lures. Yourself, what kind of fishing are you into?

Fanie, I have looked at every submission and suggestion and the dorsal fin looks right for a Vlei, and even for a blue kurper, but the colour???
 

Pipeman

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I mostly do fly-fishing for anything that swims haha and a bit of bass fishing.

If that was a Vleikurper it would be a record, they don't grow very big!
 

Loams

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Pipeman wrote:
I mostly do fly-fishing for anything that swims haha and a bit of bass fishing.

If that was a Vleikurper it would be a record, they don't grow very big!

Yeah, I am not convinced that it is a vlei at all... Best feeling I have at the moment is blue, although the colour still bugs me. I have never seen them that blue.

Yeah, I dont mind fishing of all sorts... I chase the odd barble around as well. I also have an unused 2/3 weight fly rod that I have had for two years now, but never get the chance to go and try my hand at fly fishing... I love light tackle angling of all sorts. But my preferred fishing is Bass... On light tackle of course :wfish

If you want to hit somewhere in JHB with me sometime drop me a PM. I unfortunately don't know of many places to fish in our area, but I am very keen on trying Emmarentia dam one Saturday.
 
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