2025 Flyfishing Fish Pics

[FishnDave]

9 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

Fliers - if a crappie and bluegill had a baby😉

I don't remember, but did you get up into the tannic waters of central FL and catch any of those dark fliers? They get some cool coloration.

The pond that we caught those giant fliers a few years ago has not given us much the last couple of times we fished it. I think that there have been a lot of meat fishermen out there. It is such a small pond that the large fliers might have been cleared out. We still catch ones this size in the creeks near that pond.

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.  

[FishnDave]

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!

 

[FishnDave]

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?:

[Johnsfolly]

12 hours ago, FishnDave said:

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?:

You need to add some other "sunfish" to your gallery. Like blue-spotted, banded, black banded, and any of the pygmy sunfish species😉. Also need to go after those plains and swampland longears.

[FishnDave]

11 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

You need to add some other "sunfish" to your gallery. Like blue-spotted, banded, black banded, and any of the pygmy sunfish species😉. Also need to go after those plains and swampland longears.

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.  

[Johnsfolly]

13 hours ago, FishnDave said:

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.  

You'll just have to catch the longears as by-catch for other species. You probably wouldn't be able to avoid the plains longears if you were fishing for Guadalupe bass in TX.

Mud sunfish are cool. They aren't hard to catch, it's a location, location, location deal. Ham found that out in FL on his last trip😉.

 

[Ham]

On 6/19/2025 at 8:13 AM, Johnsfolly said:

You'll just have to catch the longears as by-catch for other species. You probably wouldn't be able to avoid the plains longears if you were fishing for Guadalupe bass in TX.

Mud sunfish are cool. They aren't hard to catch, it's a location, location, location deal. Ham found that out in FL on his last trip😉.

 

John’s right, if you are around them, Mud Sunfish weren’t too hard to catch. I still appreciated every Mud Sunfish I caught. 
Redfin Pickerel weren’t either, but I loved catching them too. 

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, Ham said:

John’s right, if you are around them, Mud Sunfish weren’t too hard to catch. I still appreciated every Mud Sunfish I caught. 
Redfin Pickerel weren’t either, but I loved catching them too. 

There is only a very short list of fish that I don't love catching. American eels and gizzard shad are two that quickly come to mind.

[FishnDave]

No two are exactly the same, I guess.

 

[FishnDave]