Pkfish49 Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 Please excuse the ugly picture. I did an amateur job of cropping out the person in the picture. This was recently caught in Maine. What is it? Thanks Quote
Super User flyfisher Posted July 31, 2017 Super User Posted July 31, 2017 looks like a longear sunfish to me Quote
Looking for the big one Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 Looks like a redbreast sunfish. My home lake is loaded with them, they love hanging out in the shade of overhanging tree branches and waiting for bugs. Fun to catch with dry flies. Longears are generally more circul in shape and more colorful. Quote
CoBass Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 Probably a hybrid of some sort. We have a fish around here called an orange spotted sunfish that looks very similar to your fish but without the green markings near the mouth. They do naturally hybridize with other pan fish to create some pretty interesting fish. Quote
redmexican5081 Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 (edited) pumpkin seed *edit* but after reading pondbassin101's quote below i'd say he is right, redbreast Edited August 1, 2017 by redmexican5081 wrong identification on my part Quote
Global Moderator 12poundbass Posted July 31, 2017 Global Moderator Posted July 31, 2017 Dinner! It's a sunfish in my mind it doesn't matter what kind of sunfish because they all taste the same....yummy! Quote
MassBass Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 we can bicker, its a redear, a green belly, or a bluegill, or a shellcracker, or better we could just call it a sunfish. Likely its a hybrid of some sort anyway. 1 Quote
Looch Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 need a better photo, my guess is redbreast. I'm positive it's not a longear, no white trace around the black spot on operculum flap, Maine is also about 800 miles from it's native range, unless you are fishing in some guy's private stocked pond, very minute chance it's a longear. More likely to find an orangespotted sunfish in Maine but again, no white trace on spot. The thing that is tricking me about your fish is the marks on cheek like a greenie, pumpkinseed, or longear. May be a hybrid like was mentioned imo, Pumpkinseeds are the prettiest sunfish in the north, longears are the pretty fish of the South, Im also partial to fliers with their little teardrop 1 Quote
pondbassin101 Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 according to this-http://extremephillyfishing.blogspot.com/2013/06/be-sunfish-expert-simple-guide-for.html I'd say that's a redbreast sunfish 1 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted August 2, 2017 Global Moderator Posted August 2, 2017 Redbreast 1 Quote
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