Thanks cp. Sorry for the confusion.

The species we have here in Minnesota are primarily bluegills, with some pumpkinseeds and green sunfish and the inevitable hybrids. Further west and south from the Twin Cities there are also orangespotted sunfish and there are rumors of northern longears also in Minnesota but probably those rumors are wrong. We are too far north for shellcrackers and other members of that genus. BTW it is illegal in Minnesota to use any of them for bait.

Sunfish (primarily bluegills) are often mixed in with crappies up here or perhaps it might be better to say that sunfish waves and crappie waves sometimes seem to alternate. Other times crappies will layer above or below sunfish layers. Generally we are talking about bluegills and black crappies around here (here being Minneapolis). Except when they are on the beds finding sunfish is often a signal that crappies may be around, too.