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Bluegills can grow up to 16 in (41 cm) long and about 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 lb (2.0 kg). While their color can vary from population to population, they typically have a very distinctive coloring, with deep blue and purple on the face and gill cover, dark olive-colored bands down the side, and a fiery orange to yellow belly.
They will usually stay near brush piles and under overhanging trees casting a shadow. Bluegill will feed on insects, larvae, worms, crawfish and small fish. A common length for a bluegill will be about 7.5 inches in length and can live a life span of four to six years, but some have been known to live up to 11 years. [21] LC
The males do not have to compete with other males, and female anemone fish are typically larger. When a female dies a juvenile (male) anemone fish moves in, and "the resident male then turns into a female and reproductive advantages of the large female–small male combination continue". [22] In other fishes sex changes are reversible.
Bass 3 Trout 3 Crappie 2 Catfish 3 Bluegill 3 The lake dropped 1½ feet to 2559.75 feet in elevation and 29% of capacity with water releases at First Point dropping to 565 cfs.
[17] [failed verification] In Florida, their diet consisted mainly of fishes, with gizzard shad, bullhead catfish, and small bluegill particularly common. [ 18 ] [ failed verification ] In Missouri, fishes made up 98% of the diet with shiners being the most common prey.
As the fish grows, the gill rakers become too far apart to catch small prey and the bream will not then grow bigger than 40 cm (16 in). [ citation needed ] If a common bream is malnourished, it can develop a so-called "knife back", a sharp edge along its back.
The bluegill bully is the smallest of the Eleotrids, commonly reaching only 60–70 mm (2.4–2.8 in). [2] It is named for the bright blue edge to the operculum or gill cover, which is present in both sexes. It eats aquatic invertebrates and has an upturned mouth, allowing them to pick invertebrates off the stones above them. [2]
The pumpkinseed x bluegill sunfish [1] (Lepomis gibbosus x macrochirus), sometimes colloquially referred to as hybrid sunfish or pumpkingill, [citation needed] is a hybrid between a pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus) and a bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus). [2] They are sometimes found in lakes and ponds where both parent species are present. [2]