The bass from this pond are good lookers too.

I think that's a pumpkinseed

I think that's a pumpkinseed

yup, looks like a 'seed to me. Much prettier than bluegills--not as pretty as redbreast sunfish though.

It's actually a green sunfish. See link below.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://nc.water.usgs.gov/albe/Pics/pics_biology2/Fish/images/Green.sunfish.jpg&imgrefurl=http://nc.water.usgs.gov/albe/Pics/pics_biology2/Fish/pages/Green.sunfish.html&h=258&w=480&sz=32&hl=en&start=14&tbnid=pnDLmGIRbnNiiM:&tbnh=69&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgreen%2Bsunfish%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den

Pumpkinseed:

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/pumpkin.html

Green Sunfish:

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/greensun.html

Bluegill:

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/bluegill.html

Looks a like a pumkinseed to me. No black spots on the tail, blue specs bold throughout the whole body, top and fins more dark, and orange under the gill plate's spot.

orange under the gill plate's spot.

I'm not seeing the orange.  Looks pale to me.  The orange spot on a pumpkinseed is very prominent.

orange under the gill plate's spot.

I'm not seeing the orange. Looks pale to me. The orange spot on a pumpkinseed is very prominent.

I agree with both of you. It's missing that tell-tale orange spot of a 'seed, but it's definitely too round to be a pure green sunfish. Could be a hybrid? Hybrids around here are usually a bluegill or redear mixed with a green sunfish...but eventually, the green sunfish wins the evolution battle and your pond is over run with little green sunnies.  Just a guess. Pretty fish either way.

I agree with both of you. It's missing that tell-tale orange spot of a 'seed, but it's definitely too round to be a pure green sunfish. Could be a hybrid? Hybrids around here are usually a bluegill or redear mixed with a green sunfish...but eventually, the green sunfish wins the evolution battle and your pond is over run with little green sunnies.  Just a guess. Pretty fish either way.

By golly, I think you've got it!  I forgot about hybrids.  Yeah, they will eventually take over and eliminate the 'gills.

As my uncle would say, " don't make a bit a difference, ain't nothing but a bream" ...lol

They belong in the hot grease with bread and mustard family... ;D..

Wrong pic guys, sorry. I was trying to show you a gill with the bluest gills I've ever seen but this isn't him.

However, I'm glad you guys are on it, as I am not sure if the fish in the pic is a pumpkinseed or not. I did not even know there were hybrids.

 Here in the South they stick the name "bream" on all of them. I always liked that bluegreen color of those lines coming from it's mouth. Around here there is a fish that's called a gogleeye. It looks like a cross between a bream and a bass. They are colored like a bream, shaped more like a bass and have a big mouth. Also have those colored lines around their mouths.

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Wrong pic guys, sorry. I was trying to show you a gill with the bluest gills I've ever seen but this isn't him.

However, I'm glad you guys are on it, as I am not sure if the fish in the pic is a pumpkinseed or not. I did not even know there were hybrids.

Where's the gill photo?

i think its a green sunfish.all the pumpkinseed ive ever seen have a red spot behind the gill plate

I agree with TUX.  They's all bluegills or bream to me.

I caught this one today. I'm not sure what kind of sunfish it is? These where introduced in the swiss lake I fish by people that have aquariums a few years ago and now there are quite a few around.

I caught this one today. I'm not sure what kind of sunfish it is? These where introduced in the swiss lake I fish by people that have aquariums a few years ago and now there are quite a few around.

There's a pumpkinseed.  See link below.

Pumpkinseed:

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/pumpkin.html

Here's the best looking of them all. The Satilla River Redbreast!!!!

hand-size sunfish= titty bream to some southerners

Bass were not biting a couple weeks ago in one of my ponds, Friend and I used ultralight and hit the same spot two days in a row......caught 15 one day, 32 the next....everyone was close to 2 lbs if not more, all big bluegills

these panfish have saved the day a many time for me and my kids ,friends, familey they BITE all YEAR

Here's the best looking of them all. The Satilla River Redbreast!!!!

Not bad, but I think the best looking is the Pamela Anderson Siliconebreast.

Here's the best looking of them all. The Satilla River Redbreast!!!!

Not bad, but I think the best looking is the Pamela Anderson Siliconebreast.

I like the ones I can barely fit my hands around

Here's the best looking of them all. The Satilla River Redbreast!!!!

Not bad, but I think the best looking is the Pamela Anderson Siliconebreast.

;D ;D ;D ;D

I caught this one today. I'm not sure what kind of sunfish it is? These where introduced in the swiss lake I fish by people that have aquariums a few years ago and now there are quite a few around.

I believe that's a Redear sunfish. The tell-talemarking on it's "ear" area says it all.

Wrong pic guys, sorry. I was trying to show you a gill with the bluest gills I've ever seen but this isn't him.

However, I'm glad you guys are on it, as I am not sure if the fish in the pic is a pumpkinseed or not. I did not even know there were hybrids.

Where's the gill photo?

This is not the original pic I tried to post, but it is the same type of fish. You guys think the top photo could be a gill/seed hybrid?

Nice... SO someone else has caught large blueill and sunfish on bass lures too. I remember catching the biggest bluegill of my life on a rapalla. He was probably around 1 pound. Iv also hit big bluegill with rooster tails and small poppers.