Panfish ID ...What'cha think

RealSeabee · August 2018

Leaning toward Stumpknocker / spotted Sunfish but the colors are off and the face looks Warmouth'ish but not the lips. Maybe a Hybrid? The only Hybrids that we see (rare) and (crossed in the wild) is a mix with a Speckled Perch and Warmouth (we think)...

RealSeabee · August 2018

here is another...maybe a Flier.

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Kokosing Lover · August 2018

They're both bluegill. We get some whacky colorations down here in Florida.

RealSeabee · August 2018

Kokosing Lover said:

They're both bluegill. We get some whacky colorations down here in Florida.

sorry, not a Bluegill. Below is a Bluegill. Color variations are wildly different from the Sloughs to the River to the Lakes to the Spring Fed creeks in FLA but the Body Shape is pretty consistent.

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Reel Teal · August 2018

First one is a red breast sunfish. Second is a spotted sunfish possibly. I catch all 3 around my dock a lot. Specks too

Kokosing Lover · August 2018

First one could be a redbreast; short operculum tab for a redbreast, but stranger things happen. Second is still a bluegill. Females are distinctly different in shape and color for bluegills.

Spotted sunfish have single gray spots in the center of each scale, while fish #2 has coloration on the rear edges of some scales.