First fish of the season (mystery fish)

[adksguy]

Hey guys made it out for 2019 caught 7 fish that look like gills but have pinkish even a purple hue to them and 3 Nice crappie any info as to what these are

[trapper2000]

looks like a pale male gill to me  ..... now make him golden brown 

[adksguy]

Yeah he definitely got darker thanks

[tipup28]

💯 bluegill. Yummm

[fullThrottle]

Lol mystery fish !

[waltman]

nice fish good job

[maddogg]

Looks like the middle of a samitch.

[Laker Taker1]

I'm pretty confident these are just bluegills. They have a few different color patterns they can take. Although sunfish also hydridize a lot in NY so sunfish IDs are not always easy.

[Raquettedacker]

How deep were you catching them and was the water stained?

[fullThrottle]

I catch ones just like that all the time in the Mohawk River.

[perch chacer]

Bluegills, water can determine lighter or darker colors.

[icejohn]

Def bluegill...caught many just like it...sometimes stained and/or deepwater and they'll look like that.

[filetandrelease]

Pretty gill , different waters and different shades

[choo choo]

bottom picture Looks like a female blue gill adksguy.
Some of you might remember my "chameleon"bull blue gill post from last February. My blue gill had the same very pale lavender color with no markings when it hit the ice. Within 10 minutes of it laying on the ice I could see the color darken and markings start showing....by 15 minutes color was very dark and blue gill markings really stood out.


10 minutes later


after 15 minutes

[moosefeet]

They come all colors, shapes and sizes but they all taste the same 👍

[Richieb1]

Where you fishin ? How much ice ?

[adksguy]

Small pond near alb got em about 17' down