Found throughout the eastern half of the United States and Canada, the Pumpkinseed may reach 9 inches in length. Like the closely related Bluegill, with which it commonly hybridizes, the Pumpkinseed has been widely introduced. Established populations have been recorded in Hungary, Russia...
Sadly, many of us know of someone (or a friend of a friend) who has lost a child this way. Others of us have had close calls ourselves. One friend told me she found her toddler sitting on the edge of her parent’s pool in Florida over Thanksgiving after someone accidentally left the...