Ham Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 I might have seen one before. Bull Shoals. Mid Lake. November 2016 FishnDave, Quillback and Daryk Campbell Sr 3 Every Saint has a past, every Sinner has a future. On Instagram @hamneedstofish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjm Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 When I do a web search for "green sunfish" it seems to me that most of the images found include those vertical bars or stripes, although often fainter- USGS- Wikipedia- Texas Parks- Don't several of the "sunfish" species exhibit this vertical marking? bluegill? red ear? etc? Quillback 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rps Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 10 hours ago, tjm said: When I do a web search for "green sunfish" it seems to me that most of the images found include those vertical bars or stripes, although often fainter- USGS- Wikipedia- Texas Parks- Don't several of the "sunfish" species exhibit this vertical marking? bluegill? red ear? etc? smallmouth bass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Agnew Posted September 22 Share Posted September 22 11 hours ago, rps said: smallmouth bass You're kidding, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rps Posted September 22 Share Posted September 22 1 hour ago, Al Agnew said: You're kidding, right? Johnsfolly and Daryk Campbell Sr 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilletHead Posted September 22 Share Posted September 22 11 hours ago, Al Agnew said: You're kidding, right? I think he was referring to the barring on the sunfish. Daryk Campbell Sr 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjm Posted September 22 Share Posted September 22 I just don't think the stripes are unusual or particularly aberrant, what I see as unusual is the pale "background" color; it would be hard to think of that fish as a "black perch", or really even as "green". But, I'm not much of a species ID guy and often call them all "fish". And for me to have said definitely what the fish pictured is, I would have wanted to see the fins. And most likely an ID chart. So, my post above was as much a query as not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Agnew Posted September 23 Share Posted September 23 8 hours ago, tjm said: I just don't think the stripes are unusual or particularly aberrant, what I see as unusual is the pale "background" color; it would be hard to think of that fish as a "black perch", or really even as "green". But, I'm not much of a species ID guy and often call them all "fish". And for me to have said definitely what the fish pictured is, I would have wanted to see the fins. And most likely an ID chart. So, my post above was as much a query as not. The stripes usually show up more prominently during spawning season, and it's a little late for that. I agree the background color is somewhat lighter than normal. Maybe it's because I'm a fish artist, or maybe just because I've seen so many of them and knew what I was looking at, but I can tell pretty much all the common fish in the Ozarks at a glance. But the toughest ones to ID are the hybrid sunfish, and several different sunfish, including green sunfish, hybridize readily with others. tjm, dan hufferd and Quillback 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjm Posted September 23 Share Posted September 23 I've seen a lot of what I thought were hybrids and I've also seen a lot of color variance in the same species in the same stretch of stream. And I've caught some species that I was pretty sure of my ID, but that aren't supposed to be here. Sunfish are sunfish. Google eye are google eye, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan hufferd Posted September 23 Share Posted September 23 On 9/20/2024 at 9:10 PM, Ham said: I might have seen one before. Bull Shoals. Mid Lake. November 2016 When I see this I think about fish tacos BilletHead, Quillback and Johnsfolly 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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