boddah Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 pulled this thru the ice today...has the body ,mouth of a rockbass but blue markings on the head like a bluegill...hybrid?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davey buoy Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 pulled this thru the ice today...has the body ,mouth of a rockbass but blue markings on the head like a bluegill...hybrid?? No idea,but looks cool!!. Looks a bit like a cichlid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locnar Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 Woah, cooool! The head shape even looks more like a bluegill's as well. Did ya eat it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 Looks like embreeding. Rock and sun fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleDigits Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 Green sunfish/pumpinseed hybrid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boddah Posted January 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 Looks like embreeding. Rock and sun fish. can two types of fish breed?? i wanna see largemouth and pike...bigass mouth full of teeth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lickmyarmpit Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 Looks like what's called a warmouth sunfish. My guess anyways. Tried to add a link but my computer skills are lacking....google it looks about right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outllaw Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 i would eat it. gotta be better then tilapia or basa lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigdritchie Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 It's not entirely unusual for different kinds of sunfish to cross-breed. I would hazard a guess it might be a punkinseed-bluegill hybrid, but that's just a guess, nothing more. Cool looking fish in any case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfisher Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 I think it's a straight Green Sunfish. Green Sunfish do hybirdize with other sunfish readily (including Bluegill and Pumpkinseed), however I think this one isn't a hybrid because the mouth on it is huge, and if it were hybridized it would have a slightly smaller maw on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acountdeleted Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 I'd say green sunfish as well. Never seen one that big. Very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehg Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 Looks like what's called a warmouth sunfish. My guess anyways. Tried to add a link but my computer skills are lacking....google it looks about right. Ya it is a Warmouth. Guess you caught it around Rondeau Bay/Lake Erie. They are very uncommon and considered an endangered species in Ontario. Here is a link... http://www.rom.on.ca/ontario/risk.php?doc_type=fact&id=86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevy727 Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 Definately a cross with a rock bass. The mouth is all bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boddah Posted January 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 i am not near erie...in king township...caught it in a pond that i couldnt fish in summer cause of bullrushes and swampy conditions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boddah Posted January 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 it has the mouth of a bass for sure and has sunfih markings....doesnt really look like a warmouth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davey buoy Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 (edited) Just remembered 2 years or so ago picked up two dozen minnows.One minnow was different,up and down the side of the bag.Put it in one of my tanks,posted a picture here 6 mths later.Very aggressive,and most that replied determined it was a green sunfish. Looks quite a bit like the OP's picture. Fairly common in some waters so I've heard. Edited January 26, 2013 by davey buoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bondy Posted January 27, 2013 Report Share Posted January 27, 2013 (edited) I sent this thread to a well know fisheries biologist and here is what she wrote me back... Hi Jon,It looks like the fish has 3 anal spines and it is definitely deep bodied, this gives us one of 6 species:Too bad there isn't a scale on the photo.WarmouthOrangespotted SunfishBluegillPumpkinseedGreen SunfishLongear SunfishFish has a large mouth, reaching to the eye & so the list is reduced to:WarmouthOrangespotted Sunfish (but it is not this species because the fish depicted does not have white edge around the ear flap& for many other reasons)Green SunfishThis gives us:Warmouth (has teeth on tongue): has 3 to 5 dark radiating lines going back from the eye (not seen in photo)Green Sunfish (no teeth on tongue)Solely on the photo, I think that the specimen is a Green Sunfish. It would be helpful to check out the teethJust my 2 cents. Edited January 27, 2013 by Bondy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehg Posted January 27, 2013 Report Share Posted January 27, 2013 I sent this thread to a well know fisheries biologist and here is what she wrote me back... Hi Jon, Fish has a large mouth, reaching to the eye & so the list is reduced to: Warmouth (has teeth on tongue): has 3 to 5 dark radiating lines going back from the eye (not seen in photo) Green Sunfish (no teeth on tongue) Solely on the photo, I think that the specimen is a Green Sunfish. It would be helpful to check out the teeth Just my 2 cents. Thought it was either warmouth or green sunfish. The bigmouth on it made me think warmouth. Nice uncommon catch anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booger Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 green sunfish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmer Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Cool, never seen one of those! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davey buoy Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Cool, never seen one of those! Actually tried to pull rank on my Piranha's,very tough fish.In some southern states I've heard there a sport fish like bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehg Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 This map shows the very limited range of green sunfish in Ontario. No wonder they are not seen much. http://www.ontariofishes.ca/bigmap.php?FID=130&OMNR=312 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.brock Posted January 29, 2013 Report Share Posted January 29, 2013 I kept a small, green sunfish in an aquarium for a while, voracious little bugger, it would constantly harass the other fish, nipping their scales off I came home one day to find that the green sunfish had jumped clear out of the tank and was dead on the floor very cool, unique native fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Chong Posted January 30, 2013 Report Share Posted January 30, 2013 Looks like a Green Sunfish to me! Nice specimen, I've never caught one personally myself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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