June 2025

  Catching up with my blog entries...

Black Crappie:

Common Carp:

Raccoons:

Bantam Sunfish:

Redspotted Sunfish:

Broadhead Skink:

Bluegills:

Longear Sunfish:

Northern Studfish (now Disjunct Studfish?):

large Warmouth:

Smallmouth Bass:

Redear Sunfish:

Rock Bass:

10.2" Redear Sunfish:

May 2025

  Catching up with my blog entries...

Warmouth:

Channel Catfish:

Male Bowfin:

White Bass:

Melanistic Shortnose Gar:

30.5" Shortnose Gar:

Big Goldfish:

Warmouth:

Cute little fawn!

Emerald Bowfin

Common Snapping Turtle:

Raccoon:

Freshwater Drum:

Grass Carp:

April 2025

  Catching up with my blog entries...

Koi:

Redear Sunfish:

Banded Sculpin:

Bleeding Shiner (above and below):

Blackspotted Topminnow:

Striped Shiner:

Common Carp:

Grass Carp:

Black Crappie:

Warmouth:

Crappie:

(Emerald) Bowfin:

White Bass:

March 2025

 Catching up with my blog entries...

Some Fish I.D. Pics

Below are some pictures I've taken of some sunfish/panfish sorts of species I've caught while flyfishing.  Thought I'd share them in hopes they help others identify fish they've caught that maybe they weren't sure about what kind they were. 

I did try to choose some of the best examples from amongst those I've caught.  But I've also been amazed at how different fish of the same species can look, so these are examples, not definitive photos.  Meaning, no fish is probably going to look EXACTLY like these, but hopefully you can see the similarities and differences between the species, and figure out what you may have caught.

In the above photo collage, from top left and then clockwise:

Pumpkinseed Sunfish

Redear Sunfish

Longear Sunfish (Central)

Redbreast Sunfish

(Western) Dollar Sunfish

Northern Sunfish

In the photo collage above, from Top Left, then clockwise:

Spotted Sunfish

Redspotted Sunfish

Orangespotted Sunfish

Warmouth

Green Sunfish

Bantam Sunfish

In the double picture above, the top fish is a Coppernose Bluegill (from Florida), and the bottom fish is a Bluegill (Northern).

In the photo collage above, from top to bottom on the left side:

Ozark Bass

Rock Bass

Shadow Bass

...and from top to bottom on the right side:

Black Crappie

White Crappie

Flier