Thread: Need An Positive ID

Originally Posted by crappiekid24

I thought it could have been a green sunfish but the mouth is too small. The mouth was the size of a bluegills. I caught some gill/green sunfish hybrids and this just doesn't look like one. It definitely has gill in it.

I never noticed the mouth until you pointed it out. Whats throwing me off is the orange on the fin tips. It appears as a green sunfish but the mouth doesnt match one.

Hey CP whats your opinion about what it is?

Originally Posted by Slipped Cork

Hey CP whats your opinion about what it is?

but, not real sure which persuasion the "other parent" is :p

Got all the makings of a Bluegill, but some of the markings and coloration of fin tips do lend one to think it may have a Green Sunfish hiding in the branches of its family tree :D (though, I do have my doubts about that, since the large mouth of the Green Sunfish "should" have been a dominant trait)

Probably only a biologist doing a DNA test could tell for certain. Heck it may even have several other species of Sunfish in the family generational mix.

Call it a "Brim" and that'll cover all the bases

... cp

If not for sure, catch another one and compare the two.

I think crappiepappy has come closest to saying what this fish is. I believe one of the parents of this fish was a hybrid sunfish (bluegill x green sunfish); the fish obviously is part bluegill, and the light-colored borders on the fins says green sunfish. Most bluegill x greens are males and they can reproduce. I believe a male hybrid probably spawned with a female longear sunfish. It's a little hard to tell in the photo but it look like the gill-cover ear is a bit long, and longears do have a lot of blue markings (in no particular pattern) on the cheek, like the fish in question does. If one of the parents had been a pumpkinseed, I would think the blue markings would be a bit more arranged (as lines.)

Looks like a pumpkinseed...

Thanks guys its been a mystery to me and was just wondering your opinions. My first though was Pumpkinseed/Gill. It has become a gill to me.