Why they call them "bluegill" 2024
pondhopper reply :
The bass from this pond are good lookers too.
c17Lat reply :
I think that's a pumpkinseed
Dan: reply :
QuoteI think that's a pumpkinseed
yup, looks like a 'seed to me. Much prettier than bluegills--not as pretty as redbreast sunfish though.
Cephkiller reply :
It's actually a green sunfish. See link below.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://nc.water.usgs.gov/albe/Pics/pics_biology2/Fish/images/Green.sunfish.jpg&imgrefurl=http://nc.water.usgs.gov/albe/Pics/pics_biology2/Fish/pages/Green.sunfish.html&h=258&w=480&sz=32&hl=en&start=14&tbnid=pnDLmGIRbnNiiM:&tbnh=69&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgreen%2Bsunfish%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den
BucketmouthAngler13 reply :
Pumpkinseed:
http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/pumpkin.html
Green Sunfish:
http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/greensun.html
Bluegill:
http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/bluegill.html
Looks a like a pumkinseed to me. No black spots on the tail, blue specs bold throughout the whole body, top and fins more dark, and orange under the gill plate's spot.
Cephkiller reply :
Quoteorange under the gill plate's spot.
I'm not seeing the orange. Looks pale to me. The orange spot on a pumpkinseed is very prominent.
Daniel My Brother reply :
QuoteQuoteorange under the gill plate's spot.I'm not seeing the orange. Looks pale to me. The orange spot on a pumpkinseed is very prominent.
I agree with both of you. It's missing that tell-tale orange spot of a 'seed, but it's definitely too round to be a pure green sunfish. Could be a hybrid? Hybrids around here are usually a bluegill or redear mixed with a green sunfish...but eventually, the green sunfish wins the evolution battle and your pond is over run with little green sunnies. Just a guess. Pretty fish either way.
Cephkiller reply :
QuoteI agree with both of you. It's missing that tell-tale orange spot of a 'seed, but it's definitely too round to be a pure green sunfish. Could be a hybrid? Hybrids around here are usually a bluegill or redear mixed with a green sunfish...but eventually, the green sunfish wins the evolution battle and your pond is over run with little green sunnies. Just a guess. Pretty fish either way.
By golly, I think you've got it! I forgot about hybrids. Yeah, they will eventually take over and eliminate the 'gills.
tuxdaddy reply :
As my uncle would say, " don't make a bit a difference, ain't nothing but a bream" 
...lol
They belong in the hot grease with bread and mustard family... ;D..
pondhopper reply :
Wrong pic guys, sorry. I was trying to show you a gill with the bluest gills I've ever seen but this isn't him.
However, I'm glad you guys are on it, as I am not sure if the fish in the pic is a pumpkinseed or not. I did not even know there were hybrids.
skillet reply :
Here in the South they stick the name "bream" on all of them. I always liked that bluegreen color of those lines coming from it's mouth. Around here there is a fish that's called a gogleeye. It looks like a cross between a bream and a bass. They are colored like a bream, shaped more like a bass and have a big mouth. Also have those colored lines around their mouths.
As Ever,
Skillet
Cephkiller reply :
QuoteWrong pic guys, sorry. I was trying to show you a gill with the bluest gills I've ever seen but this isn't him.However, I'm glad you guys are on it, as I am not sure if the fish in the pic is a pumpkinseed or not. I did not even know there were hybrids.
Where's the gill photo?
Fish Man reply :
i think its a green sunfish.all the pumpkinseed ive ever seen have a red spot behind the gill plate
Avalonjohn44 reply :
I agree with TUX. They's all bluegills or bream to me.
T-rig reply :
I caught this one today. I'm not sure what kind of sunfish it is? These where introduced in the swiss lake I fish by people that have aquariums a few years ago and now there are quite a few around.
Cephkiller reply :
QuoteI caught this one today. I'm not sure what kind of sunfish it is? These where introduced in the swiss lake I fish by people that have aquariums a few years ago and now there are quite a few around.
There's a pumpkinseed. See link below.
QuotePumpkinseed:http://www.cnr.vt.edu/efish/families/pumpkin.html
Rattletrap reply :
Here's the best looking of them all. The Satilla River Redbreast!!!!
flyphisher # reply :
hand-size sunfish= titty bream to some southerners
Bass were not biting a couple weeks ago in one of my ponds, Friend and I used ultralight and hit the same spot two days in a row......caught 15 one day, 32 the next....everyone was close to 2 lbs if not more, all big bluegills 
Maxximus Redneckus reply :
these panfish have saved the day a many time for me and my kids ,friends, familey they BITE all YEAR
guest reply :
QuoteHere's the best looking of them all. The Satilla River Redbreast!!!!
Not bad, but I think the best looking is the Pamela Anderson Siliconebreast.
FL_fisher reply :
QuoteQuoteHere's the best looking of them all. The Satilla River Redbreast!!!!
Not bad, but I think the best looking is the Pamela Anderson Siliconebreast.
I like the ones I can barely fit my hands around
Rattletrap reply :
QuoteQuoteHere's the best looking of them all. The Satilla River Redbreast!!!!
Not bad, but I think the best looking is the Pamela Anderson Siliconebreast.
;D ;D ;D ;D
ValleyBoy reply :
QuoteI caught this one today. I'm not sure what kind of sunfish it is? These where introduced in the swiss lake I fish by people that have aquariums a few years ago and now there are quite a few around.
I believe that's a Redear sunfish. The tell-talemarking on it's "ear" area says it all.
pondhopper reply :
QuoteQuoteWrong pic guys, sorry. I was trying to show you a gill with the bluest gills I've ever seen but this isn't him.However, I'm glad you guys are on it, as I am not sure if the fish in the pic is a pumpkinseed or not. I did not even know there were hybrids.
Where's the gill photo?
This is not the original pic I tried to post, but it is the same type of fish. You guys think the top photo could be a gill/seed hybrid?
FivePoundBluegill reply :
Nice... SO someone else has caught large blueill and sunfish on bass lures too. I remember catching the biggest bluegill of my life on a rapalla. He was probably around 1 pound. Iv also hit big bluegill with rooster tails and small poppers.
Taliesin reply :
QuoteNice... SO someone else has caught large blueill and sunfish on bass lures too. I remember catching the biggest bluegill of my life on a rapalla. He was probably around 1 pound. Iv also hit big bluegill with rooster tails and small poppers.
Not the only one. My biggest bluegill was a 12" on a Tiny Torpedoe.
All last week I have been catching a lot of green sunfish on plastic worms too.
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