Caught a real pretty green sunfish out of a local creek today. almost has a baby bass type look with its elongated body and big mouth. Thanks for making this video!

@TheFishingNomad

Ай бұрын

Thank you.

I got a tiny little pumpkin seed from a little stream

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Nice. They're beautiful.

@masonkechter9386

2 жыл бұрын

Nice

@masteroogway1586

Жыл бұрын

Nice

@micahhook3576

2 ай бұрын

Im jealous

@spencerlatham5632

Ай бұрын

Like ina tank?

really wish I could shake your hand and thank you for an amazing video will be watching this one time and time again appreciate people like you who make great informative content

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words.

My favorite has always been the redbreast. The pumpkinseed is also quite beautiful.

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Nice.

My favorite sunfish is the one on the end of my line. I'm really not that particular most of them are very pretty. You also introduced me to several species I have never seen or even heard of. Thanks.

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Nice. Thank you.

Caught my first redear sunfish today and a YT search brought me here. Very informative but also overwhelming because I didn't know there were so many sunfish species. Now I am inspired to try to catch every one...

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Glad I was able to help. There certainly are plenty of different sunfish out there. Good luck with catching them all.

WOW!!! So many Sunfish 🐟🐡🐠.. Thankyou for sharing! 😊

@TheFishingNomad

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.

This is the video I watched a while back and I’ve been trying to find it forever! Glad to watch it again!

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Well made video, quite informative, great photo references. This is great, thank you. Love the male and female bluegills, their colors are beautiful.

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Glad you liked it.

Thank you for this video, very helpful for my daughter and I.

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Glad I was able to help. Thanks for watching.

I like catching green sunnies the best. Seems like they put up a better fight than the others with the added advantage of being able to lip them.

@differentfins

Жыл бұрын

They are super aggressive as well. I dont think they got the memo that they are a small fish lol

The prettiest freshwater fish I ever reeled in was a Pumpkinseed Sunfish from Natural Bridge State Park in Kentucky and, yes, I shared a photo of it with Kentucky Afield years ago.

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah pumpkinseeds are beautiful.

Thanks, great video! I used to keep small sunfish in aquariums, they are fantastic specimens to watch and, as you point out, many are lovely!

@differentfins

Жыл бұрын

I've always wanted to do this. Couple sunfish and couple small bullheads together in an aquarium.

My favorite is the Red Ear Sunfish! Love them "Shellcrackers"! Would love to see more information on them! Size, distribution, breeding habits, coloration in both sexes, food preferences etc...

@JonBecker81

Жыл бұрын

They may not be the prettiest of them all but man they have some fight in them for their size. I can always tell when I have a shell cracker on.

@JonBecker81

Жыл бұрын

@@pnwlife8593 that’s what we call them down here south of the mason dixon. They eat snells and other shell fish and crack the shells in their mouths. Ie SHELLCRACKER! They’re a fun little fish to catch.

Excellent video. Thank you for this info. Truly enlightening 👍🏻

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Awesome video man! Just subbed to the channel, you have some great videos!

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Appreciate it.

Great content! I’d love to see more videos of this type

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I've got some idea for similar ones and will make them eventually.

Thx for your professional video. I’m trying to find one on how to identify different sunfishes and finally find yours :)

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. Glad it was able to help.

Great video, thank you for uploading!

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

Thank you for this, I’m doing a native fish tank this summer and needed the help.

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

Glad I was able to help.

EPF, is my go to for sunfish identification but what ai will say your video is way more detailed. Awesome work

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Really good job man! I enjoyed it

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot. And thanks for the pictures.

Thanks. You did a great job there.

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Means a lot.

Thanks. Nice info. Good delivery 😊.

@TheFishingNomad

Ай бұрын

Thank you.

Thank you, great and informative video.

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

This is a great video. Thanks.

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

My favorite is the Green Sunfish! Orange is my favorite color and the orange-tipped fins and tail are so cool!

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Not my favorite, but they certainly do have some nice colors on them. Thanks for sharing.

What a GREAT video!!!! Here in Louisiana we call the Red-ear sunfish, a Chinquapin. The Green and Warmouth sunfish, we call them Goggle-eye! Again, Great informative video!!!👍🏼🐠

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

I'm still amazed at 44 years old how beautiful some of the pumpkin seeds are.

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Better than any fish at the pet store.

@Yelladog78

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFishingNomad for sure

Thank you so much ! Very helpful information keeping this for future Reference..

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@anthonyharper8161

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFishingNomad Thanks for sharing..

Very interesting video! I live just north of Minnesota (yes there is a north of Minnesota lol) and we have 4 species of Lepomis available here and I've caught them all. Bluegill, pumpkinseed, green sunfish and northern sunfish (Lepomis peltastes, a smaller relative of the longear). I need to travel to find more and I will. I am all about multispecies and a soft core lifelister. Cheers and thank you for the video. Edit: glad you included the northern sunfish. It's one of the most confusing sunfish for beginners. Most dont know about it.

Thanks for the info...Lets eat!!!! A pan fish is a pan fish is a pan fish...Eat',em up!!! My mom was a child of the great depression.If they had dinner, They caught it. That's why I hated going fishing with her...If it was big enough to be hooked,it was good eating! Two inches long and it's a keeper... Loved My Mother 😪💔

Very informative. Also, made me hungry for some fried Bluegills.

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. All these fish are definitely good eating.

Great info man 👍

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad you liked it.

Very well done. Thank you.

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad it helped.

good information thanks for sharing 👍✌️

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

good information thanks for your expertise! Pumpkin Seed my fav!

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Pumpkinseeds are toward the top of my list as well.

I'm fifty and I've been fishing since I was 7 and still can't believe the different types and variants of sunnys

@TheFishingNomad

Ай бұрын

There are certainly a lot of them.

Very helpful. Thanks!

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the support. Glad it was helpful.

great video. have caught some nice warmouth while fishing spinnerbaits for reservoir largemouth. also some chunky redbreasts fishing 5" senkos for river smallmouth.

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Nice.

I had no clue there were so many sunfish species. I caught a few sunfish and wanted to ID them and this video helped. Caught 2 Redspotted Sunfish at my local state park. Cute lil things !

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Nice. Congrats. That's a species I have yet to catch.

Great video.

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Good job man love the vids

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Appreciate it.

Cool stuff man!

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I appreciate it.

Ty for the video I fought a Pumpkin Seed yesterday but I didn’t know what it was.

I always thought that they were all BlueGills but variations of BlueGill. Thank you for your expertise, enjoyed the whole video.

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. Glad I could help.

Great video. Stumbled into my recommendations for some reason. Love all the views and comments, happy fishing everyone!

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Appreciate it.

Not bad. Really good, actually. One of the best sunfish summaries I've ever seen. Should include the four species of Ambloplites though - (Rock Bass, Ozark Bass, Shadow Bass, and Roanoke Bass) because those are often confused with Warmouth and Green Sunfish.

@TheFishingNomad

Ай бұрын

You're right. I wanted to make a Part 2 of this video and include the sunfish species that are not in the lepomis genus. Maybe I'll get around to it one of these days.

Well done!

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Thank you so much I really appreciate it

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad it helped.

Just caught the coolest green sunfish I’ve ever seen. The fins were very vibrant red!

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Nice.

My dad calls all types of sunfish "perch," and though I learned as a kid that perch are very different from sunfish, I had no idea of the numerous species. Any type of mostly-green sunfish was called a bluegill, and anything that was orange and electric blue was called a pumpkinseed. I'm now pretty sure that most of the "bluegill" I caught were in fact green sunfish. Longear sunfish, I agree, are the best looking ones, and as a kid I had one in an aquarium. At other times, I also had bluegill, lots of tadpoles, what were probably dollar sunfish, lots of mosquitofish (mostly as food), some baby largemouth bass, and one dragonfly larva that ate one of the baby bass. Thanks for the video.

@CStack2Ci

Жыл бұрын

They are often called "perch" or "sun perch" in southern states, I learned that in Oklahoma! Up north (MN, IL) we have "yellow perch," related to walleye, and "white perch," another species altogether. They all taste great!!

@AisuruMirai

Жыл бұрын

@@CStack2Ci My dad's from Oklahoma, actually.

@CStack2Ci

Жыл бұрын

@@AisuruMirai Cool! I lived in Tulsa OK and used to net tiny sun perch for aquariums from local ponds! It was a great hobby!

@0326Hambone

Жыл бұрын

Funny, because I grew up not knowing what a Perch was! I did for sure know about bluegills, theyre the little buggers that take your bait when bass fishing hehe. Im sure ive confused a crappie or long ear for being a bluegill.

@CStack2Ci

Жыл бұрын

@@0326Hambone Great post!! It is fun to look these fish up, they are important members of our freshwater community. Yellow perch are a lynchpin of the fisheries of the Great Lakes and one of the best-eating fish out there! I love all of the panfish, for fishing & eating! My late father-in-law taught me how to clean them quickly & efficiently, no bones!

I love pumpkinseeds. Beautiful fish.

@TheFishingNomad

9 ай бұрын

Yeah they're one of my favorites too.

Fantastic vid mane

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

I've been bass fishing for years but today I caught my first sunfish. I thought there were bluegill in my pond, but the turquoise lines threw me off. You should talk about cross-breeds/hybrids. Thanks for the awesome video!

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. I do plan on doing a hybrid sunfish video, but it's such a broad topic I'm trying to figure out how to best present it.

@matthewhunt6834

3 жыл бұрын

@Raleigh Denton Yes, definitely. It turns out the fish I caught was a pumpkinseed, and there is actually a pretty big population of them in my pond.

@austinhernandez2716

3 жыл бұрын

No offense but that's hard to believe. Most people catch a small sunfish as their first fish and even when bass fishing you can catch one when not trying to. I believe you but that sounds crazy

@professor6006

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewhunt6834 yeah I caught one yesterday dont those pumpkinseeds put up a foght

@someone3416

3 жыл бұрын

Lol in my pond the ratio is every three sunfish one bass

I love bluegill and crappie so much . Easily two of my favorites for eating

@TheFishingNomad

13 күн бұрын

Nice.

@user-vg8mc5bo2f

7 сағат бұрын

There you go!

Loved this vid, my favorite type of fish is panfish. And my favorite panfish is the warmouth, love the fight they put up. I also love the way green sunnies look, wit those cool blue lines. Im sas he called them ugly, i think their pretty.

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching.

I don't particularly like Lepomids, or Centrarchids for that matter, but the Warmouth is interesting, and learning the IDs is a good challenge. Thank you for putting out this helpful video.

Thank you for the video. Very informative. I think the pumpkin Seed sunfish is the nicest looking one. I have to admit that they all have very interesting colors and look. So varied. Have you tasted them all? I personally never tasted any fish that I caught I simply release them back as the water where I fish is very polluted.

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Off the top of my head the only lepomis species fish I've eaten have been bluegills and pumpkinseeds. Both tasted great.

Warmouths - large almost Rockbass like mouths and with red eyes like a rock bass too. As for many of the other subspecies I never realized there were so many. Thanks for the info. Well done!

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. Warmouths don't always have red eyes though.

@thefishingpol

Жыл бұрын

@@TheFishingNomad as I noticed in your tutorial. AND I was surprised to find out green blue gills have the large square mouths . We called those warmouths too..

Great video Pumpkinseed and Redears is the nice ones to me but the Longear is the prettiest of them all I do agree.

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

I really like pumpkinseeds as well, but nothing beats a longear.

My favorite is Pumpkinseed. They are just absolutely beautiful 😍

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

They really are. Thanks for the comment.

Thank you

@TheFishingNomad

9 ай бұрын

You're welcome.

Thank that’s good information

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Glad you liked it.

Good video my favorite is Bluegill.

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

That's a classic. Solid choice.

Good info

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

I just came across this video. Thanks for the very informative video. I knew about 80% of them but a few were new to me as well. I haven't caught a War Mouth yet, but I hear they put up a good fight. Do you know if this fish is in the southeastern US?

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

It is in the southeastern US. I don't know the exact range off the top of my head, but I've caught them in Florida before.

Great presentation! I have several sunfish in my aquarium. Now I know what species they are.

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Nice. Hopefully one day I can get an aquarium and put some sunfish in there too.

Thanks for sharing this information I was able to identify 7 species of sunfish. I have not caught a warmouth up in northern part of New York. I sure would like to and I am a panfish person who enjoys the fight of fish. If you could break down the pickerel Pike and Muskie the same way that would be so helpful as they are different species amongst themselves as well. Good video thanks

@differentfins

Жыл бұрын

Have you ever fished in NYC? I caught my first ever bluegills in Central Park. Bluegill are rare where I live believe it or not (just north of Minnesota)

@itreallyisntpersonalb1960

Жыл бұрын

Sure have, prospect Park, Central Park. I've also fished in the state extra State Park greenwood lake Haven up in Orange county and Oswego New York so I've done a lot of freshwater fishing I enjoy tremendously

Thanks needed this

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped.

Good scoop

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Thanks for the info,I didn't realize there was so many different species,I definitely have been missidentifying the northern,I thought they were just off colored due to the dark muddy color of my lake

I like the orange tipped pec fins on the greens

Thanks.

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Hey my bro, do you have any recommendations on places in the South to get warmouth to stock your pond? Seems everyone got to catch them wild and relocate? Appreciate your videos!!!

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

This place specializes in selling North American native fish for the aquarium trade, but they also do sell fish for pond stocking. I'm sure the cost per fish will be lower if you buy a couple hundred warmouth instead of buying just one. www.aquaculturestore.com/Sunfish/

Redear, Bluegill , and Pumpkin Seed are my fave I guess. They all are fun to catch no doubt.

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. They are all pretty awesome.

The pumpkin seed was the first fish I caught and cooked. They're really tasty in my opinion.

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

I used to eat them all the time when I lived in New Hampshire. Can't really tell the difference between them and the other sunfish when it comes to taste, but they do taste good. Thanks for watching.

@overheadcastle1

3 жыл бұрын

Red ear is my favorite

@gamingcentral1025

3 жыл бұрын

Just plain old black crappie and green sunfish are pretty good aswell.

@andyfernandez9695

3 жыл бұрын

i like perch best but pumpkin seeds are pretty good too

@differentfins

Жыл бұрын

I've never eaten a sunfish yet. My childhood fish was the yellow perch but sunfish will be the fish I start my daughter off catching. Great fish for kids!

great vid

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

So I have 4 pet green sunfish. Never knew this, thanks.

Thanks for this excellent video ,,I have heard the green and the bluegill may crossbreed producing hybrid bluegills,,can't remember but is it the ma or the pa that determines if the offspring will be sterile and grow big and faster. Maybe others crossbreed?

Hi TFN, awesome video content by the way! Like you I’m a fanatic multi-species fishing enthusiast. However I have a question, have you ever caught a hybrid panfish before? Fishing here in Las Vegas in local ponds I often came across what looked like bluegill/green sunfish and it’s huge...8” plus.

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

I have caught a couple in my life. For the most part hybrids are extremely rare. Whenever someone can't identify a fish they usually incorrectly assume that it's a hybrid. The perfect storm has to happen for a hybrid to occur naturally. However, there is a green sunfish X bluegill sunfish hybrid available commercially for stocking. Many people choose to stock these because they end up getting some positive traits from both parents such as a larger mouth or the green sunfish while maintaining the ability to attain a larger size like a bluegill. Since they're available commercially, the green X bluegill is probably the most commonly caught hybrid in the lepomis genus. Totally possible that you've caught a couple of these.

@kennylim136

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheFishingNomad Thanks for the reply. You are a wealth of information and I wish You tube will allow some sort of picture upload in the comment section so those us without a video channel can share our catches.

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. If you'd like you can message me on Instagram. It's at TheFishingNomad_KZread.

I think I have some northern sunfish in a creek on my property in Florida, favorite fish I have had in my tank for sure! Also a lot more of a silver/brown fish with vertical striped and a red tinted tail any idea on that one?

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

Anything is possible, but I'd bet my life savings that they're not northern sunfish. Can you DM me a picture on Instagram at TheFishingNomad_KZread? From the description my best guess is that it's a coppernose bluegill.

Trapped some sunfish for my new aquarium today. Im certain one is a bluegill, wasnt certain about the other 2 they almost looked like crappie but the fins didnt look like crappie. Pretty sure they are redears because i can barely see a red spot on the gill plate they are small about 2 inches. Thanks for making this video. I'm going to keep trying to catch some longears.

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

Could be. Take a look at fliers (Centrarchus macropterus). Whenever someone thinks they've caught a weird crappie or a crappie sunfish hybrid it is usually one of these.

besides the longeared sunfish. my favorite is the "Black Banded Sunfish" which wasnt mentioned in the video. i use to catch them in northern illinois/wisconsin border area. but havent seen any in years. they have a silver whiteish color with black bands thru body.

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Blackbanded sunfish are cool. I haven't caught one yet and they're the only Enneacanthus species not on my lifelist. However because they're an Enneacanthus species and not a Lepomis species, they were left out of this video.

@todaysfishingadventure

Жыл бұрын

ohh. i see i didnt knotice was different species. when pulling up list on google of diffent types of north american sunfish they all come up together on list. i did see that the blackbanded sunfish is on the endangered list in most areas and i believe its one of the 4 protected sunfish as well.

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

@@todaysfishingadventure They're not federally protected, but they might be protected in your state.

The most obvious thing that stands out with the warmouth is the large mouth. Great video! I usually call any panfish I catch a sun fish. Thanks for the info!

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

True. They do have larger mouths. Thanks for the comment.

Nice video man, I catch green sunfish all of the time and I catch on everything from live bait to lures and I have caught 2 green sunfish that weighed 2 pounds and I catch hundreds of green sunfish a year but in the little creek and the pond that I fish in I rarely catch a bluegill and I have caught Rock bass at night and warmouths at night too

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Green sunfish are usually more aggressive than other sunfish so that and their larger mouths let's them take over a lot of bodies of water.

@LeviW133

Жыл бұрын

@@TheFishingNomad your right about that, because when I put green sunfish in our pond about 6 years ago they really took it over quickly and every place I have fished around here I have caught a green sunfish and green sunfish are one of the most aggressive sunfish in the world

Green Sunfish hit poppers, dry flies, wooly buggers, wet flies, nymphs, grasshopper, ant, & spider, imitations. Tube jigs, curly tail grubs, inline spinners, minnows, crickets, leeches, crawfish, etc. In shallow clear water @ spawning sites the males have a more intense yellow in their fins as they guard their nests.Colorful and inquisitive aquarium fish with equal sized and tempered fish.

@SpacemanXC

2 жыл бұрын

It always blows my mind when i get a sunfish on a popper. The bait is twice the size of their mouth and they still smash it. Irritable bastards lol.

@differentfins

Жыл бұрын

Green sunfish dont realize they are small. They do have the attitude of a big fish lol

Green Sunfish also tend to have larger mouths than other sunfish

@TheFishingNomad

Ай бұрын

Mostly true. Warmouth also have a very large mouth. I think they're even bigger than green sunfish.

Awesome man, you should do all the other black bass species next like shadow bass and rock bass, all the obscure ones

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I've got a couple more ideas for fish ID videos and that is one of them. One day.

@troywehr4029

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheFishingNomad the video was very cool and informative. It's hard to tell with hand drawn ID images

@KermitTheGamer21

3 жыл бұрын

Rock bass are actually not related to the black basses (largemouth, etc.) They are their own genus

@tehutimes1

3 жыл бұрын

@@KermitTheGamer21 the Black Basses are sunfish also just that they can weigh over ten pounds. Stripers,yellow white basses are true and temperate basses. Including the white perch which isn't a perch but a bass.

@KermitTheGamer21

3 жыл бұрын

@@tehutimes1 I know, I never said anything about anything but the rock basses though. While both rock bass and black bass are under the Centrarchid (sunfish) family group, rock bass belong to the Ambloplite genus (which includes the rock bass, shadow bass, roanoke bass, and ozark bass). Black basses belong to the Micropterus genus, and include largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, spotted bass, Florida bass, and a number of smaller localized species like coosa bass which are similar to smallmouth. This video here was only made about the Lepomis genus, which only includes the smaller fish that are commonly labeled as "sunfish" like bluegill.

YES!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! I GOT IT DOWN!!!!!!! THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@TheFishingNomad

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Glad you liked it.

Could’ve put flirt sunfish in this one too. Also rock bass, ozark bass, and shadow bass often get misidentified as warmouth often. Pretty solid video though. More people need to know this stuff before they try to help ID fish on Facebook groups.

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. The reason I didn't include those is because this video was strictly meant to be about the lepomis genus. I agree that species that are mostly misidentified as each other are probably the warmouth, green sunfish, and rock bass. However they're in three different genuses so they didn't fit the theme of this video. In the future I plan on doing a lot more fish ID videos like this where I'd discuss many more of the misidentified species. Thanks for the feedback.

@misconceptions5613

4 жыл бұрын

The Fishing Nomad rock bass is in that genus

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

@@misconceptions5613 huh? Rock bass are in a different genus than warmouth and green sunfish.

nice

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Thanks.

GREAT VIDEO ALWAYS WONDERED ABOUT THE GILL'S HOW MANY SPEICIES AND ALL.

@TheFishingNomad

Ай бұрын

Thank you.

You can’t say that the green sunfish is ugly, The second picture of the species looks so cool

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

I can say it because it's my opinion. Thanks for stopping by.

I have lived in S.FL my whole life and been fishing all the golf courses, banks,canals, lakes, etc...and the last 10 years or so I can find bream or sunfish anywhere ..its really sad. All we see are Myan Ciclids and Green Tilipia . I have an awesome pond behind my house with lost of peacocks, bass, snakeheads,etc., but all the bass are very very thin. I've been on a mission to find bream to reintroduce into my pond but I just cant locate them. I use to catch them by hand when they were young by using rice to bait them close to shore then snatch em up lol. AHHHH the good ol days

@TheFishingNomad

18 күн бұрын

Unfortunately that's southern Florida these days, and to a certain extent central Florida as well. I don't think introducing the sunfish would do much for your pond. They'd get out competed and preyed upon heavily by all those other species you mentioned. You'd have to eradicate those and then somehow stop them from coming back.

I think its worth it to point out that warmouth (in my opinion) have a bigger mouth then most panfish. You can lip a small warmouth when caught very easily unlike most panfish. I've always wondered if they weren't mixed with smallmouth bass due to their bigger mouth and longer build. I've also only caught them in the same systems where smallmouth lived.

Do they all taste the same? Lol I've just started to dry and get dedicated into fishing after 34 years. Bluegill are my favorite common freshwater fish and panfish in general are my favorite freshwater family of any type of fish. This video has informed me with more than I've been able to find in weeks.

@TheFishingNomad

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. Glad I was able to help.

@straightwhitemale5753

Жыл бұрын

@@TheFishingNomad Yes, sir!!

So is the redear the one also called shellcracker?

@TheFishingNomad

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Redear are something called shellcrackers. However sometimes pumpkinseeds are also called shellcrackers. I used the most widely used and accepted common names for the fish.

I've kept all types of fish in aquariums since I was a kid. Including many varieties of sunfish. It seamed to me by behavior and temperament, they were quite like cichlids found in the amazon.

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

These guys are sure holding their own with all the nonnative cichlids down here in South Florida.

@mjnc3672

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheFishingNomad It's been a black eye to all responsible fish keepers how some fish and reptile owners irresponsibly and carelessly turned their overgrown unwanted pets loose in Florida, with no thought or care of the effect to native species. I remember in the 1970's walking along a canal in Plantation Florida and seeing a large pair of Oscars swimming at the surface with several hundred young all around & behind them. I was told then it had been common for years to catch them while fishing.

@TheFishingNomad

3 жыл бұрын

@@mjnc3672 Yup. That war has been lost decades ago. If you go to the FWC website you can see the dates when all the non-natives were first spotted in Florida. Many of the cichlids were first spotted between the 50s and 80s. New species are still being found reproducing pretty regularly.

South Alabamian here. I frequently fish one of our local city parks. It's been the victim of mismanagement for a few years. The pond's whole ecology is severely out-o-whack. But there are still some good fish in it. One of the park rangers always comes and hangs out a bit while I'm fishing and we shoot the breeze. He's a cool guy. He's a recent transplant from Minnesota. That's a far cry from Alabama. Anyway he was watching me catch Sunfish the other day. This pond has quite the variety. He was asking me "What's this kind? What's that kind"? I would invariably say "Oh it's just a Bream". He said that in Minnesota they call that one a so and so Sunfish and that other one a so and so Sunfish... I told him that he was absolutely right. They were Sunfish. But that here in Alabama we commonly just use the word "Bream" to encompass the entire family of Sunfish species and subspecies. Even the State Fisheries Dept. refers to this entire family of fish as "Bream". Heck, even this specific pond has four signs posted with the daily creel limits. The very top line says BREAM - LIMIT 10. He of course thinks we're stupid Rednecks. But that's just the way it is here.

@TheFishingNomad

Ай бұрын

For some situations, it's fine to just clump them all in together like calling them all "bream". For other situations though you need to be able to differentiate between them. I like how they're all different and unique so I like differentiating them any time I can.