It was 9 inches and the tail was pretty worn
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It was 9 inches and the tail was pretty worn
Crap LOL can anyone flip that right side up for me? :) I took the pic on my phone and just uploaded it from there...
Here ya go
Thank You! I don't know if you can see or not but I have a 4" yum dinger and a 1/0 bass hook in his mouth... lol I caught some crappie under that dock and then decided to try to catch a few bass.... All the crappie were little fellers
Looks like a green sunfish to me.
Here in N.C we call them warmouth their a cross. A cross between what I don't know.
Dinner?
It is a right side up deformed green sunfish. A warmouth is an entirely other fish
Warmouth. We call them goggle eye. Tail not normally beat up. Ocasionally mistaken for a rock bass or green sunfish. Love to hit small plastic worms.
Tired Tail Draggin' Rock Bass
Actually, no ... they're not. A Green Sunfish, Warmouth, & Rockbass are three different & distinct fish. They're shaped similar, sometimes colored similar, and very often mistaken for either of the other two.Quote:
Originally Posted by PAM3417
IMHO - This particular fish, pictured, is most likely a Green Sunfish ... considering the blue colored streaks on the face, yellow belly color, thin ridge of color on the gill flap & fins/tail, and the blue & green "dotting effect" of the side scales coloration.
... cp :kewl
Myself and those I have fished with have always called these fish warmouths.
Warmouth. Short stocky with a big mouth for their size aka mudgapper
All the Warmouth's I've ever caught, and the one I had in my 40gal aquarium, were more brown & gold colored ... than the blue & green coloration this fish is showing. Even the link that Techno2000 provided, shows a fish with red gill flap patch & little to no color edging on the fins & tail. And while the body coloration is very similar to this picture ... any number of other websites about fish ID will show Warmouths that aren't colored in this way, as well as pictures of Green Sunfish with coloration more closely akin to this picture.
That's not even taking into account the possibility of some crossbreeding potential :Doh: ... and as is well documented, the Green Sunfish can & does crossbreed with many other Sunfish species. The "famous" Hybrid Bluegill is a Bluegill/Green Sunfish cross. The Green Sunfish also crossbreeds with Pumpkinseed, Longear Sunfish, Warmouth, & probably others.
... cp :kewl
We call em goggle eye around here.
The greenish blue lines on the face and lack of a red eye point to a green sunfish, not a warmouth.
It's a hybrid bluegill (cross between a green sunfish and a bluegill), with dominant green sunfish traits.
Warmouth green mix
I'm inclined to agree with tnpondmanager.Quote:
Originally Posted by tnpondmanager
100% positive it's a warmouth! Not a cross or hybrid of anything, they are there own species.