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[jmed999]

Sorry if this is a stupid question but there are so many types of bream-like fish that I'm not sure what I have in my pond so I thought I would ask. The picture doesn't show the full array of colors but it has some light blue below the mouth and a bright orangey yellow belly.

What kind of fish is this specifically? Thanks guys!!!

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[aumdb487]

looks like female bluegill to me

[00 mod]

looks like female bluegill to me

x2! It appears to be a bluegill to me as well!

Jeff

[SAC2]

yeah bluegill for sure. pick up some gill colored spinnerbaits and get to chuckin!

[jmed999]

That is what I thought it was but one neighbor calls them sunfish and the other neighbor calls them bream....So I wasn't sure what it was sunfidh, blugill, or bream.

Thanks!

[J Francho]

That looks like Sally.

[roadwarrior]

Bream is a Southern term that includes all species of bluegill and are also called perch.

[00 mod]

We call em bream down here. But that generally refers to all types of sunfish. Up north they call em all sunfish.

Jeff

[senco lover]

that looks like a pumpkin seed

[ctf58]

Mouth looks small but it could be a green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus) .
Green Sunfish are found in most native watersheds in the nation. To not have green sunfish around you is the exception, not the rule. Green sunfish, called "slicks" in Arkansas, "yellow bellied perch" in other areas of the country, are iridescent green, with orange trim around their fins. With a big mouth, green sunfish are considerably more predatory than bluegill or redear. They compete directly with young game fish.

[J Francho]

Lepomis macrochirus

[Sam]

What about a white crappie?

If we are going to name the fish I suggest we name it Bob.

Bob the Crappie or Bob the Fish.

[J Francho]

It's a female blue gill, not a crappie, and definitely not named Bob.

[Gangley]

Its a bluegill.

Its not a green sunfish: mouth to small, no yellow/green line of dilineation around fins, body to tall, etc


In the south, all sunfish get called bluegill, perch, brim, bream, etc. Though incorrect, they all mean the same thing down here.

If you want to really get specific, its true scientific name is: Jugging Baiticus

[Chattahoochee]

X9 Bluegill. Also Sunfish, Shellcracker, Bream. Alltough since joining this site I have amended my southron ways and typiclly call them by the proper names now.