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Caught a couple of these today fishing for bass here in Bella Vista.  I believe it is a goggleye, but I have never seen one so darkly colored.  What does the panel of experts say?

 

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I'm gonna say Green Sunfish. Or some sort of hybrid of that species.

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-- Jim

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. -- Doug Larson

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No google-eye there. I have seen them darker, but that doesn't quite look like one.

"you can always beat the keeper, but you can never beat the post"

There are only three things in life that are certain : death, taxes, and the wind blowing at Capps Creek!

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QB - coming late to the party, but have to agree with the warmouth. That is a species that I have never caught. So I am a bit jealous. They are one of my target species here in Maryland this year. Hopefully I will have one caught in the near future.

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So what are the differentiating characteristics  ?  I've caught several completely black looking similar fish, some with red eyes and some without. Some I thought were green sunfish or shell-crackers,  made me think older makes darker or deeper water makes darker.

"Black perch" is what the old guys called them 60 years ago.

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