Pretty Pumpkinseed

[MonteSS]

Only 8" but nice and bright blues and orange. Pic doesnt do it justice.

Also had a 10" PS and BG that were not quite as colorful.

They hit a Rapala Scatter Rap crank in Bluegill. The bream , bass, perch, cats, and crappie have been loving that bait. Even got two 20+ pound grass carp on it.



...Bill

[bxn]

thats one pretty fish,but it looks like a long ear sunfish.the black marking on the gill cover is longer than on a pumpkinseed.also on pumpkinseeds they have a red dot on the black marking

[M R Dux]

I can paint a pretty good fish but Mother Nature leaves me in the dust when it comes to those sunfish. I know there are a lot of pretty tropical fish but none any prettier than a pumpkinseed.

[kycreek]

You're right, the saltwater has some pretty fish but have nothing on the sunfish/pumkinseed.

[montagc]

Looks like a hybrid maybe...

[CrappiePappy]

I'm with BXN ... the long black earflap says it's a Longear. The coloration & patterns are very similar between the Longear & Pumpkinseed ... and makes them hard to tell apart (other than the length of the earflap).

Don't see many of them around here, that are that orange/blue ... they're mostly fire red/iridescent blue.
Like this :



They're what my late Grandfather used to call "redbellies" .... and they'd put up twice the tussle of a Bluegill of the same size. We always caught them along cliff ledges or deep on steep points.

... cp

[NYHellbender]

That's one good lookin fish for sure. Thanks for sharing : )

[specktacklure]

very colorful