What the heck is this?

[deadsmelthead]

I used to have a poster of freshwater fishes of north america......I guess i have a few brain cells left........i looked it up to be sure before i posted it.

Never knew how useful that poster was gonna be when you got rid of it until you jumped on this site did ya.....

[deadsmelthead]

Lol! Must have been the old war stories we were talking about that fueled the fire on this one. Good god.

lol, it doesnt take much

Haven't laughed that hard in weeks!!!!!!!

deadsmelthead   you cracked  me  up buddy   

I try to make someone laugh everyday with nonsense, seemed like the right place for it... Glad yall laughed   

[PerchEyes]

That thing looks like a lot of different fish, its striped like a perch, has the chest of a sunfish shoulders of a rockbass and mouth of a a smallie..

Ive got this figured out as to exactly what happened, every 4 years what happens in the bays of some waters is known as the the "Drunken Weed Bed Dance" All the fish all get together and drag all the beer cans and bottles vagrants and lazy fisherman left behind and party like there is no tomorrow.. We have all been in this situation before, after a few beers with us humans a 4 looks like an 8 and a 6 looks like a 10.. With fish its no different, a perch sees a rock bass after a couple sips and says ahhh what the heck those are some nice curves and beady red eyes i wonder if she wants to go out back by the lily pad...

How many beers to produce the puppy-monkey-baby on that Superbowl commercial???
That was deeply disturbing...

[throughtheroof]

...Banded Sunfish.

[Adkrs]

Where did ya catch it? I would say green sunfish

[toydevil48]

War mouth are in ny, I have caught war mouth in many different small ponds around here....it looks like one

[mike304]

I agree with the Green Sunfish folks

http://www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/species/fsheets/ex/sf.html

[BillyGoat]

Fish was caught in a pond/small lake in the southern tier. My buddy won't let me blow up the spot... u know how that is.  But I thought is was very cool Fish he caught,  so I had ( bigred ) put a pic up of the fish. In the description of a warmouth they have 3 to 5 lines that radiant (if that's the word) from the eye. This fish doesn't.  So off the bat no warmouth......  possible hybrid of a green sunfish or just a green sunfish. 
 

[OneidaAngler]

Looks like a green sunfish/bluegill hybrid to me. Stripes like a big gill and a large head and mouth of a green sunfish. These hybrids are popular with pond owners. Aggressive like a green sunfish and they get as big as gills can get.

[greensider]

already said but i would have said warmouth i caught one a long time ago in the lower hudson

[H2O-32]

Only one way to tell for sure.......


DEEP FRY IT AND SEE WHAT IT TASTES LIKE!

Let us know, thx.

[reddog11]

I think it`s a rock bass

[Adkrs]

Fish was caught in a pond/small lake in the southern tier. My buddy won't let me blow up the spot... u know how that is.  But I thought is was very cool Fish he caught,  so I had ( bigred ) put a pic up of the fish. In the description of a warmouth they have 3 to 5 lines that radiant (if that's the word) from the eye. This fish doesn't.  So off the bat no warmouth......  possible hybrid of a green sunfish or just a green sunfish.

Fair enough. I was just trying to think geographically how would/could it be there

[greensider]

i have caught some fish in places they had no place being even one of a kind in some places people release fish in places where they did not catch them often enough

[trapper2000]

if you really wanted to know  take  the picture and  but it in the  general ice shanty thread  of  go on myfishfinder and  put in under some of the more southern forums

[Icicle1]

Odd looking 1!

[eyeball15]

Is peacock sunfish..

[Pappy24]

No doubt related to the hairy chested nut scratcher.....

[perch chacer]

I agree with the Green Sunfish folks

http://www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/species/fsheets/ex/sf.html

All the searching I did, I  agree with mike304 it is most likely a green sunfish.  Don't try to make it something it isn't.  Let your local DEC fish biologist tell you what it is.  Our tax $$$ pay for him to know.

[trapper2000]

No doubt related to the hairy chested nut scratcher.....

my  God  I  don't know  how I  missed  it  ....your  correct!!!!

[Icicle1]

Peacock bass grabbed a blue gill for a wife.

[bucketbass]

Green sunfish cross with blue gill...bluegreen sunfish 

[big_guy_13021]

I would

put that cold water phiranna on my wall it would be quit the conversation piece cold water phiranna look it up..

[trapper2000]

We are In The north east Cold water,  warmouth need warmer water they are down south fish. Aquarium fish. Google New York State green sunfish that is exactly what it is.

actually the native range of green sunfish and warmouths is the same ....both greens and warmouths have been used I pond stockings and have found there way into the great lakes ....I have caught many greens  down in Oswego at times .....

warmouths and greens look very very similar and yes warmouths do have the stripes

[trapper2000]

We are In The north east Cold water,  warmouth need warmer water they are down south fish. Aquarium fish. Google New York State green sunfish that is exactly what it is.

actually the green and warmouths native range is exactly the same! they look very very similar warmouths in fact do have stripes ,both fish have been stocked in ponds in new York state and used as hybrids  ...both fish have found their way into the great lakes ....

so you got a picture of a fish with a lot of glare that could be either one (or something totally different)  and you have a  bunch of guys that use maggots as bait  to sit on the  ice and fish threw a hole with frozen snot hanging off their faces  using google to make them fish ID experts .....how can ya  lose  figuring this one out  geeee whiz andy

[BillyGoat]

Trapper you think he knows it all. Look at the pic .. get out your glasses.  And guess, what if u can read..... warmouths don't  have lines on their FACE.   Cuz that's what I said.  So know it all....  all u do on Here is run your mouth I think k u are nothing but a warmouth

[BillyGoat]

I figured this would be a good conversation piece as well but you gotta have one or two of those douchebags out there

[bigredonice]

I figured this would be a good conversation piece as well but you gotta have one or two of those douchebags out there

oh god your both stubborn coots   Although i still think green sunfish 

why aren't you on the ice Kev??   or is the bite slow?

[BillyGoat]

Lol . I have to travel  1 45 min  to find ice.   all open water over here

[TommyBoy1971]

well?? how did it taste? that's the more important question!