Rock Bass/ Goggle eye

[Hunter91]

Fished a couple tourneys last week and caught a lot of rock bass and green-eared sunfish or goggle eye on the ned rig along with a few bass. Is anyone else catching any? Thought I may actually try to fish for them next weekend.

[Quillback]

I have never caught one on TR, but maybe they just aren't that numerous up the White river.

They are my own personal gizzard shad.  (Ham will understand).

[ramman123]

same report from about 3 weeks ago as well

 

[Bigmo]

I caught two in in the white around pt.25 a few weeks ago.. One had 2 big eyes and the other had one big one and a normal one. I should have taken a pic. 

[eyedabassman]

Getting a few in the Dam area!

[jtram]

Getting 100 's on the rivers, actual rivers and creeks. The free flowing kind where u are not tied to a motor to go where you want. 

[97procraft]

I was on the lake two weeks ago and we caught and cleaned 12 over 1 pound each.  Coming down this weekend too.  If I catch any again, we will be cleaning them too.

[DADAKOTA]

Are you cleaning green sunfish or goggle eye?  I've eaten lots of goggle eye but never a green sunfish.  How are the greenies for tablefare?

[MOPanfisher]

Green sunfish eat just fine, like about all sunfish.  Warm water small creeks seem to have them with some grubs/parasites in them, but not so much in lakes.  A good bedding area of large green sunfish will make me stop whatever else I am fishing for (unless its pretty good) and add a pile of them to the death well for supper.

[97procraft]

We mainly kept the goggle eye.  We did add a sunfish and a 14" crappie to the mix though.  I rarely clean fish, but those google eye and that crappie were too good to pass up.