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!!!

looks like female bluegill to me

looks like female bluegill to me

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

Jeff

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

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!

That looks like Sally.

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

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

Jeff

that looks like a pumpkin seed

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.

Lepomis macrochirus

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.

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

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

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.

This is a bluegill, if you see red dimpled on the sides and a thin red line behind the gill it would be a pumpkinseed. Red ear sunfish look like pumpkinseeds but instead of a thin red line behind the gill it has more of a red spot and a small red spot on the end of the blue make on the gill. The bluegill in the picture could also be a green sunfish but I doubt it just because of the bright colors you described, green sunfish are probably the least colorfull of the fish we call sunfish which are the bluegill, the pumpkinseed, the red ear and the green.

Thanks guys! There's another bream-like fish I catch a lot. It looks similar but has a bigger mouth. I'll post a pic next time I catch one.

It looks to me like the biggest fish Dozer ever caught

My name for that kind of fish is DINNER!

Green Sunfish are what you dont want. They have voracious appetites and don't grow very large. They will outcompete the regular bluegills, redear's and pumpkinseeds for forage and never get to a good size. If you don't mind taking the time to clean little guys, they are good table fare.

Female bluegill, no doubt about it.

x10 female bluegill...

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.

FYI, the old school name for crappie up here is Specks. I've also heard them called Calico's. But I've never heard of them called Bob unless it was in Texas where it was their middle name.

its a kibby by the way has anyone else heard of a kibby or is it just a new england slang word

How do y'all know it's a female?