I found a spot with a bunch of little fish. The face looks like a green sunfish but has a really dark body. My friend called them Warmouths. I didn't take a picture... are they Green sunfish?
No, they are not. Hard to ID from memory, snap a pic next time and compare it. The easiest way to ID the two is the green sunfish has blue streaks on the cheeks.
If you want to catch baby green sunfish then go to a body of water that has them and find a shoreline with riprap, broken concrete, or chunk limestone. Take a tiny hook with a piece of anything (small piece of plastic worm, real worm, cricket, cigarette butt, anything) and drop it in the crevices between the rocks. They will shoot out and grab it and take it back under, so be quick or they'll get you snagged. If one is under that rock, he will eat it in 1/4 of a second.
Ive heard all 3 names warmouth, green sunfish and rock bass. I believe the warmouth and rock bass are the same fish, the green sunfish has a bit different look to me.
The warmouth (Lepomis gulosus) is not even in the same family as the northern rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris). The warmouth is closely related to the green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellous?) though.
I have yet to go back there to catch one. I want to grow them out in my 300 gallon tote and use as flathead bait next year. My buddy has some small ponds too. Start a Green Sunfish Factory. I think its legal in Tennessee as there is no restrictions on live Sunfish.
They did have the blue lines on the gills and dark green bodies. I may even film myself catching these guys.
Now around here THEY the Ozark natives call ALL panfish PERCH!! Not bluegill, not green sunfish, not rock bass, but PERCH!! I have tried to explain that they all are different species but it falls on deaf ears!
The nicknames of all these sunfish species and how incorrectly they are all used is unbelievable. No matter the species, if it’s not a bluegill it inevitably gets called a war mouth or a pumpkinseed. It’s unbelievable.
Red eared sunfish are not hard to spot.....just like long eared sunfish...
Most people call their panfish catches 'bluegill" even if they are not bluegill
Crappie are easy to label....white and black....not hard to figure out.
there are so many sub species of panfish though....it is easy to get it wrong...
Bluegill, red ear, red eye, long eared, pumpkinseed....which to me...are the most beautiful species of all....i would like to have an aquarium one day with all native fish and heavy on the pumpkinseed.
Ive heard all 3 names warmouth, green sunfish and rock bass. I believe the warmouth and rock bass are the same fish, the green sunfish has a bit different look to me.
Wolfman nailed it on the rock Bass and the warmouth ,but if you had a chance to put them on a hook at the same time that Green Sun fish will still be swimming when the others are pushing up daisys
We call the warmouth a goggle-eye. they are mean aggressive little fish and if they are in an area you will know it because they will attack a bass lure or plastic worm that is almost as big as they are. They are a lot of fun fishing in the Cyprus knees with a light fly rod or ultra light spinning rod.
the names I grew up calling different perch are all wrong according to ar.game and fish so I just call them all perch.ever body knows what a perch is.i did learn the difference in perch and rock bass.arkansas has a 6 fish limit on rock bass and at the time it was 57.50 per fish over the limit.lucky for me I only had one over.lucky he wasntthere the day before i had probably 30.all were eaten.
I don't know, so many different names for different sunfish just in this small geographical area. Some call em all bluegill, some call the more elongated ones with bigger mouths pond perch others war mouth, then we have pumpkin seeds, rock bass, hybrid gills and likely a few others I am not aware of. I am lucky enough to have a DNR office in the rural county I reside in with a fish biologist who works out of there, I took pictures of several different "bluegills" I caught out of a pond on property I purchased, he identified them as common bluegill, red ear, and hybrid. Sorry I couldn't help more.
i just wish pumpkinseed perch got big as a green perch.im one of rgem hillbillys that ever tho i know the the types of perch they are somebody ask me what im catching i just say perch.
Ive seen a lot of warwouth in different colors beside green so my answer is no.
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