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!

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

I got a tiny little pumpkin seed from a little stream

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.

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 😪💔

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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

Thanks. Nice info. Good delivery 😊.

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

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

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!!!👍🏼🐠

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

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

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

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 !

Really good job man! I enjoyed it

Great video, thank you for uploading!

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

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

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

Thank you, great and informative video.

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

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

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!

This is a great video. Thanks.

Thanks. You did a great job there.

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.

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

Very well done. Thank you.

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

Very helpful. Thanks!

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

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

Good job man love the vids

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

Thank you so much I really appreciate it

I love pumpkinseeds. Beautiful fish.

good information thanks for sharing 👍✌️

Great info man 👍

My favorite is Pumpkinseed. They are just absolutely beautiful 😍

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

Thank you

Cool stuff man!

Green Sunfish also tend to have larger mouths than other sunfish

Excellent video.

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.

Thanks.

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.

I like the orange tipped pec fins on the greens

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

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!

Well done!

Thank that’s good information

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

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.

Fantastic vid mane

Thanks needed this

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.

WOW!

Good video my favorite is Bluegill.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Good scoop

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

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.

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?

Good info

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

Where I live blue gill's are dominant to me a really thick large blue gill filleted is the best tasting fish I have ever eaten. I like most fish but like these the best.👍😁👍

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

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

great vid

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.

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!

I’m the type I enjoy catching all fish and bluegill and green sunfish are my favorite since they’re abundant around me and they get big. I’ve caught 2 green Sunfish the size of my hand one was 14 oz and the other was 13 oz.

Redbreast Sunfish are beautiful. So are Bluegill and Pumpkinseed.

nice

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

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.

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!!!

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

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.

I agree, the longear is the most beautiful species.