FishnDave

I do! Grass Carp. Caught 3 on Saturday morning. Plus a drum and a rather dark-colored common carp.

I saw some of the pictures on your buddy's IG acct. The same guy that fished with @ham last summer, right? That's some late night fishing!!

@ness I saw Paul McCartney in Ames, Iowa, in 1990. Didn't cost me anything. I was throwing kegs in the back of a truck and serving beer for the show. Every so often I'd stick my head out and see him on stage. That was my senior year of college at ISU.

Good point. The east coast populations do seem isolated from each other. I wonder how most of those species have managed to stay largely the same? The Redbreast in Texas haven't been there terribly long... introduced around 1925... not nearly long enough to be genetically different enough to be considered a separate species. But interbreeding from probably a rather limited number of initial stockers might speed up the process.

Hard to tell, right? Plus, no two fish are exactly identical, at least as far as I can tell. @Johnsfolly I like how they all seem to have that blue line in front of, and under, the eye. The Texas and at least some east-coast populations should be the same... Redbreast aren't native to Texas, they were transplanted there. At some point, the Texas fish will probably genetically diverge, since they can't interbreed with the original populations. I dunno how long that'll take...?

@Daryk Campbell Sr You're right about the bottom 2 being Bluegills... the bottom one is the "northern" Bluegill, the one above it is a Coppernose Bluegill from south Florida. They have some light edging on their fins and other things that, to me, just don't look like a typical Bluegill that we have in the midwest. Some say its a subspecies, but I don't think anyone has done genetic testing to see if they could be a standalone separate species. For the other fish in those pictures above, I will try to label them here, with the common name location in the list matching the picture location: Pumpkinseed Sunfish--------------Redear Sunfish Northern Sunfish ------------------(Central) Longear Sunfish (Western) Dollar Sunfish ----------Redbreast Sunfish Spotted Sunfish---------------------Redspotted Sunfish Bantam Sunfish--------------------Orangespotted Sunfish Green Sunfish-----------------------Warmouth Ozark Bass---------------------------Black Crappie Rock Bass----------------------------White Crappie Shadow Bass------------------------Flier Coppernose Bluegill (Northern) Bluegill

2nd Shortnose Gar over 30" this year... this one is a new PB at 31".

Longnose Gar:

And @Ham caught the first one(s) on fly in Arkansas! I was 2nd on fly in Arkansas. We're practically national Snakehead royalty! 😆

Caught 7/13/2025, I suspect this may be the first Northern Snakehead on fly from Missouri.

Fliers:

(Western) Dollar Sunfish:

Golden Shiners

No two are exactly the same, I guess.

Way to go!

Yeah, those Enneacanthus group of sunfish are neat looking, for sure! I could go for a Mud Sunfish, too! The other Longears aren't calling my name at the moment.

I put these together from my own flyfishing pictures. All are different species (and one subspecies). I bet most folks here will know them all. Any questions about any?:

I don't know why it should be so surprising or interesting to me... but for some time now I've really noticed how different individuals of the same fish species look from each other. No two are the same. Which seems sorta unlikely, considering 100's of eggs from one female fish being fertilized by one male. You'd think the fish from that nest would be nearly all identical twins. I have seen some fish that looked to me like they were from the same brood. Warmouth have a number of patterns, and those patterns or sort of repetitive everywhere I've caught them, MO, FL, IL, AR, LA... And the Bantam Sunfish were similarly all different from one another. Anyway... and then there's individual fish like this, that hardly even look like the same species!

I haven't caught any in Florida. A buddy has caught nice ones in south Georgia. Previously, I've only caught them a couple times with @Ham in Arkansas. This was my first one from Missouri. Also probably the smallest one I've managed to catch so far.