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Thanks all.
I don't know why that Bluegill looked so different. Maybe it was stocked and it came from a different gene pool then the native sunfish.
I'm kicking myself for not taking a better picture of it next to a ruler before releasing it. Oh well. I can't do anything about it now.
I like the delicate flavor of sunfish fillets. There's isn't much meat on an individual fish, so gathering enough fillets for a meal is a bit of a time investment.
I even spent $55 on a Panhandler fish filleting gizmo. It allows you to quickly fillet out sunfish and leave relatively little meat on the carcass. We'll see how long this thing lasts. Here's a video about the 'Panhandler' from someone I assume is the inventor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnGfkfAhNIY
Here is a pic of my Panhandler:
