Thread: Need help with fish ID. Some kind of hybrid?

thats a chinkapin...we catch a lot of them here....nows the time to catch them...they are bigger than a red ear .longer too....they do put up a fight...i promise you thats what that is...i caught some yesterday

Originally Posted by bistineaudon

thats a chinkapin...we catch a lot of them here....nows the time to catch them...they are bigger than a red ear .longer too....they do put up a fight...i promise you thats what that is...i caught some yesterday

Chinquapin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redear_sunfish

From Wikipedia
The redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus), also known as the shellcracker, Georgia bream, cherry gill, chinquapin, improved bream, rouge ear sunfish and sun perch, is native to the southeastern United States, but since it is a popular sport fish it has been introduced to bodies of water all over North America. It generally resembles the bluegill except for coloration and somewhat larger size. It is dark-colored dorsally and yellow-green ventrally. The male has a cherry-red edge on its operculum; females have orange coloration in this area. The adult fish is between 20 and 24 centimetres (7.9 and 9.4 in) in length. Max length is 43.2 cm (17.0 in), compared to a maximum of about 40 cm (16 in) for the bluegill.

Originally Posted by bistineaudon

thats a chinkapin...we catch a lot of them here....nows the time to catch them...they are bigger than a red ear .longer too....they do put up a fight...i promise you thats what that is...i caught some yesterday

They are the same thing....

Originally Posted by Slab

We had this same conversation with this pic also. Redear.

What fish??

Originally Posted by tcounty

What fish??

Be nice. I have three daughters of my very own.

I am surprised anybody noticed the fish in Slab's picture. What a pretty girl!

My favorite bobbers!

Originally Posted by cray

Readear and a dang nice one. I'd like to find a mess like that on a fly rod.

one would be great !