Thread: nice pumpkinseed pics

Originally Posted by slabsrus

got a few nice pumpkinseeds and specks yesterday after work

That bottom pic is exactly the type of fish I caught today. I got 1 @ 11" and 3 more @ 10". I just thought they were redear, since I've never caught anything like it before an d I knew there were redear in the lake I was fishing.

Now I think maybe they were pumpikinseed. 11 and 10" are a little large though for pumpkinseed don't you think?

This is what we call a punkinseed and if they reach 10 inches they develope a large protruding hump over there eyes that gives them the exact shape of punkin seed hence the name. If you search freshwater sunfish they have a fish listed as a punkinseed that looks like the original posted picture, I always thought it was a cross with a shellcracker. The fish I have a pic of below they call it a longear sunfish and it is know as a punkinseed also.