Can you please help ID this fish?  Memphis, TN 

Looks more like a green to me.

I would say that's a war mouth...green sunfish have a smaller mouth and usually have some blue lines on the face and cheeks. Also they normally have alot more orange coloration especially on the fins.

Here’s another from the same pond that I’m pretty sure is a green sunfish.  The one above just wasn’t as vibrant with the orange and was more spotted, but I caught it in the same place I catch a lot of greenies 

 

Maybe overly ambitious, but the TN state record for a green sunfish is only 1 lb 4 oz.  as far as state records go, I feel like this one might be attainable (especially given most anglers aren’t great at identifying green sunfish).  Is this a crazy goal? 

Top is a warmouth, bottom is a green sunfish. Top fish has the "war paint", stripes from the eye (3-5 dark stripes), bottom fish does not. 

this photo is a green sunfish hen - the males have yellow belly, with red ear and fin tips - yes, the smiling young man's fish is a warmouth

 

This is my buddy's photo, and the best example I had.  

 

Another day I released a 13" green sunfish in metro Austin Bull Creek that would blow away the TX state record.  This was a small impoundment shared with a pod of bass to 10 lbs.  

 

This massive redbreast hen was in a headwaters oxbow she shared with a 5-lb bass.  

 

Green sunfish have the largest gill-to-body-mass, and will be the last fish in drought-dwindling ponds and isolated side pools.  

They're also very bad about stunting if no larger predators are there.  

Have literally caught them in rain puddles from pond overflow. 

 

@DrAloha

In W TN, I would think highway borrow pits shared with bass would be a great place to find a monster green.  This means something.  

You'll also have a hoot catching bass in a barrel.  

Looks like a warmouth to me.

You're all wrong.  Looks like a yellow-bellied snail-sucker to me.  

 

Warmouth.

 

Here a couple of Green sunfish I caught out of a local quarry.  Coloration is a bit different than the one from Texas.