What is this fish?

[PikeMolester]

I don't do panfish...this is my friends and I found the colors to be so bright they threw me off...

Edited June 14, 2010 by Canucker

[timmeh]

looks like a pumpkinseed

[bassman87]

Looks like an Atlantic to be honest.

[Cudz]

yes and yes. Sunfish and pumkinseed can be used interchageably. Well I do anyway.

[bassman87]

but yeah its a pimpkinseed and a big one at that

[PikeMolester]

thanks guys. this can be deleted

[spinnerbaitking]

That's a hog Pumpkinseed for sure how long was it

Richard

[Afraz]

marlin...

[JohnF]

Looks to me like some I've seen down near Findlay Ohio in flooded quarries.

 

JF

[Cosmos]

It's a sunfish.

[vinnimon]

I caught one like that where pigeon lake meets buckhorn,and wondered myself.Mine looked more like a sunfish weighing in at just over 1 1/2 pnds.

[bassman87]

they look tropical dont they

[Fisherpete]

Pumpkinseed, which is a type of sunfish.

[BillsTheBassMan]

It really is a gorgeous fish though . . . nice catch!

[bushart]

It's a pumpkinseed--- AKA--- bait stealin---hook swallowin----fin stickin---pain in da backside

[wallyboss]

It must've been tasty

[perchslayer666]

Nice colors Italo!

[OhioFisherman]

LMAO, came across a guy fishing at a pond I was going to fish at and he had a bucket full of them. Look at all the rainbow trout I caught! Should be a species test before you fish? I have heard them called sunfish or pumpkinseeds, and that one is larger than normal. They tend to run a lot smaller in size than Bluegills.