Green Sunfish orange version

Friday I fished Cheney Reservoir "20 miles West of Wichita Ks" and jigged for crappie in a few spots and caught none. Decided to try for gills so ended up with 10 gills around 7" and 8". On the same pink/white trout magnet also caught a 3 lb drum, skinny bass, two 5.5" green sunfish. The greenies had bright orange fins and tails and not the usual yellow. I've caught 100's of greenies but never this orange version - is this common?Attachment 353528Attachment 353529Attachment 353532Attachment 353533Attachment 353534Attachment 353535Attachment 353536

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Yes it's fairly common. Also, your first pic is a green sunfish while your second pic is a green x bluegill hybrid. The orange or usually yellow on the fins is way more prominent on the hybrids.

I caught several hybrids Friday - the 2 greenies were both 5.5" and may have been the same fish?

I think the orange trim on Geen Sunfish might be spawning colors. I notice a lot more orange in the summer than the rest of the year.


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Great catch, congrats!

I see that coloration very often.

Pretty fish. Good trip by my standards.

Pretty fish and hard fighters

Think they get a brighter orange - during spawning - here in SoCal.

I have friends with a pond full of greenie/gill hybrids. They are super agressive and fun to catch. Thanks for the report!

Southern guys correct me, but we usually call them warmouths?

here we call greenies greenies and warmouth warmouth most of the time , some call warmouth goggle eyes to
and some call greens big mouth perch .
I once fished a little tiny spring pond that had greens it with such bright orange tipped fins you could see them in the crystal clear water from way far away on the approach to the pond .
not sure why some have orange tips and some don't , but I do know I ketch them side by side sometimes

Rock bass are goggle eyes, warmouth are warmouth, green sunfish are greenies with yellow and sometimes orange tipped fins & tails. Crappie are hopefully slabs or soon to be, LOL

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