The Sunfish Family | LEPOMIS Genus

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The Sunfish Family | LEPOMIS Genus

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3 жыл бұрын

This video is about the Lepomis or Sunfish genus of the freshwater sunfish family Centrarchidae. There are thirteen species in the Lepomis genus. I hope you like the video and as always...
THANKS FOR WATCHING!!!
03:19 Northern Bluegill
05:13 Coppernose Bluegill
07:26 Hand-Paint Bluegill
07:58 Eastern Bluegill
08:28 Southwestern Bluegill
09:14 Redear Sunfish (Shellcracker)
11:31 Redbreast Sunfish
13:45 Green Sunfish
17:26 Warmouth
22:09 Longear Sunfish
25:31 Northern Sunfish
28:16 Dollar Sunfish
31:33 Pumpkinseed
34:38 Spotted Sunfish
36:49 Redspotted Sunfish
40:15 Orangespotted Sunfish
42:18 Bantam Sunfish
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@taylor-eugenesimmons8615 2 ай бұрын

Nice!!! This Is Doctoral Work!!! I Am Very Impressed!!!

@ShoalBandit 2 ай бұрын

That's a serious compliment thank you very much!

@taylor-eugenesimmons8615 2 ай бұрын

@ShoalBandit You're Welcome!!! It's Well Deserving!!! Keep Up The Good Work!!!

@PythonDad 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video. Maybe people will stop calling everything a bluegill if they see this. :) I live near a lake with an awesome warmouth population. Never caught so many 7-9 inch warmouth anywhere else. The colored up breeding males are the prettiest I've ever seen. Super dark with a purple fluorescent sheen and red tipped fins and opercular lobes.

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching I'm glad you liked it! Spawning male Warmouth are definitely underrated!

@user-ub9tp8wy4x 2 ай бұрын

Since I was a little boy and into adulthood. I’ve always noticed great variations in these fish. Finally a great tool to know what you have actually caught. Well done! 😊

@user-ub9tp8wy4x 2 ай бұрын

Since I was a little boy and into adulthood. I’ve always noticed great variations in these fish. Finally a great tool to know what you have actually caught. Well done!

@ShoalBandit 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much I really appreciate it!

@bdizzle1729 2 жыл бұрын

Loved the video, it's really nice to get lots of detail about each sunfish

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching I'm glad you liked it!

@theartoffitness2430 4 ай бұрын

Wow! This is awesome! I’ve been looking for a video like this to help me identify the many varieties of sunfish I’ve caught over the years. This is super helpful! Thank you so much!

@ShoalBandit 4 ай бұрын

Thank you I really appreciate it! That's exactly why I made this video so I'm glad you liked it!

@josephw1771 Жыл бұрын

This was so damn informative and interesting. Thanks for taking the time to give such in-depth information!

@ShoalBandit Жыл бұрын

Thank you I really appreciate it!

@aviancypress5181 2 жыл бұрын

Is the micropterus video almost done? These videos are a great help when I catch a species im not familiar with

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

I apologize for the delay (again). This video is over 1 hour so it's the longest I've made so far...by a lot. Anyway I've been having multiple device storage issues that I've never had to deal with. Anyway long story short I had to make 3 shorter videos, save them, delete everything off a 4TB hard drive, and import/put those 3 videos together. Again I'm sorry it's taking so long but it will be up this week because I'm no longer having any kind of speed/performance issues or problems. Thanks again for your interest (and patience) I really appreciate it!

@pauldolbec2455 2 жыл бұрын

Very well done and thank you for sharing you research and knowledge!

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much I'm glad you liked it!

@iblackbeard 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent breakdown, i'm gonna see how many that I can identify by your descriptions. Stranglely I caught an "Eastern Bluegill" here in Texas! Beautiful fish! Thanks again!

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks I appreciate it and good luck! That is strange it most likely came from a private lake somewhere after a big rain.

@bobs5596 7 ай бұрын

may have been stocked.

@morelia21701 3 ай бұрын

Thank you. I have become deeply interested in keeping these in aquarium. It wasn't until a few years ago that I learned that all sunfish are not "Bluegill". I find very beautiful Longear Sunfish in the Monocacy River in Maryland.

@ShoalBandit 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching I really appreciate it!

@williamholiday468 2 жыл бұрын

Extraordinarily informative, Sir. Thank you.

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much I really appreciate it! Thanks for watching!

@cpf7894 3 жыл бұрын

Good video, deserves more views.

@ShoalBandit 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir I appreciate it!

@Lowballinoutdoorz 2 жыл бұрын

O man, I know the ones around my area, I didn't know there were several other kinds!! Thanks for the info

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching I really appreciate it!

@RepairerOfBreach 3 ай бұрын

Just an update, a year ago they transplanted Florida coppernose to lake Perris, California and they are thriving. 2-3 lbs are common but are released so the fishery grows.

@ShoalBandit 3 ай бұрын

Wow that's HUGE...Thanks for the update!

@thurstonhowelliii335 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. I’m looking to start an aquarium with native fish. The Dollar Sunfish looks like a good choice since it is colorful and only gets 5 inches long. Looks like I’ll have to drive south a few hours to find them.

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching...you might want to check out the Bluespotted Sunfish. They're a slightly smaller member of the Banded Sunfish genus Enneacanthus. They're found as far north as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and southern New York.

@ifishcatfish Жыл бұрын

great video. right amount of detail

@ShoalBandit Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much I'm glad you liked it!

@ifishcatfish Жыл бұрын

@@ShoalBandit I am catching some very bright colored elongated bass right under the nickajack dam on TN river, but i am struggling to identify them. People call them kentucky spotted bass, but from ur video and maps it seems its more likely that they are alabama bass. Do u have an email where i can send you some pictures? I couldn't find it in description. Or u can get my email from my description and email me, if u don't want to share it here.

@ShoalBandit Жыл бұрын

@@ifishcatfish Alabama Bass have made their way into Nickajack from Chickamauga so you're probably right. There's also a lot of Smallmouth x Alabama hybrids in that part of the drainage. I'd really like to see any fish from that area I'm at: shoalbandit@gmail.com

@donaldseigel4101 Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@ShoalBandit Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@michaelogden5958 2 ай бұрын

In central Texas, anything remotely resembling a sunfish is called a "perch". I'm not sure why that is. This is a very informative video!

@ShoalBandit 2 ай бұрын

I've noticed they call them 'perch' in some parts of Oklahoma too and in Florida Black Crappie are often called 'speckled perch'. I haven't found a definitive answer, but I think if/when people bought a freshwater fish to eat in the 19th/20th century they were probably just labeled 'perch'. There are/were commercial fisheries for Yellow Perch and White Perch in New England and the Midwest so maybe the term 'perch' was applied to any small freshwater fish aka panfish good for the table?

@nickkolesnik5054 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing work. Thank you sir!!!!

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much I appreciate it! I'm glad you liked it!

@curtishuffstutler2934 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the information great video .

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching glad you liked it!

@thirdspacemaker9141 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! New sub! I don’t fish, but I’m learning about native fish and trying to film them underwater with a GoPro.

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks I really appreciate it! Wish I had more time I'd like to do some underwater video in creeks and rivers.

@Erickolcin 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent content! Thank you

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! I spent a lot of time on these videos so I really appreciate the feedback! Thanks for watching!

@Erickolcin 2 жыл бұрын

@@ShoalBandit please keep them coming!!!

@troyseal9877 Ай бұрын

Mini trout magnets will get those bantam and orange spotted sunnies

@ShoalBandit Ай бұрын

Thanks I'll have to try that!

@christopherknettel4505 2 жыл бұрын

Eastern bluegill we have in Jacksonville fl

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Probably the result of stocking since that's below the southern boundary of the accepted intergrade zone.

@bobs5596 7 ай бұрын

this made me go look up the pygmy sunfish and the crappie. i thought they would be in this group, but no they are diff genera. maybe a chart of all centrarchidae would be useful.

@ShoalBandit 7 ай бұрын

If you check my playlists there's one called 'The Sunfish Family'...I did a video for every genus in the sunfish family. When I made those videos (2 years ago) pygmy sunfishes were not formally part of Centrarchidae. FishBase still has them in Elassomatidae but I'm going to add them (and a chart) when I update those videos.

@elijahfreeman6400 2 жыл бұрын

I catch Coppernose Bluegill all the way in Eastern North Carolina.

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

They have been widely introduced unfortunately, which is bad for the native bluegill. They have been successfully stocked as far north as Tennessee and west to Texas.

@WackoFromWaco 2 ай бұрын

We have almost only northern bluegill in the brazos and bosque river in texas

@ShoalBandit 16 күн бұрын

That's right on the edge of their native range so it'd be interesting to know if those were introduced. Thanks for watching!

@brandonjennen3673 5 күн бұрын

You should do a series on catfish please

@ShoalBandit 4 күн бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion. I got a request a while back to do the Pike Family next, but I'll do Catfish after that.

@micahhook3576 3 ай бұрын

The pumpkin seeds look like the dollars a lot

@ShoalBandit 3 ай бұрын

The opercular flap (or ear) of the Dollar Sunfish should be angled upward. They will be level on a Pumpkinseed. Pumpkinseeds also have irregular brown to gold spots that cover the body while the spots on a Dollar Sunfish are usually blue to silver (or some color in between). Most Dollar Sunfish also have spots and/or vermiculations on the opercular flap with a distinct silver margin. On a Pumpkinseed it will be solid black with a red blotch on the rear margin of the flap.

@MarkMeadows90 2 жыл бұрын

I've caught plenty of Redbreast Sunfish here in northern Alabama, mostly in creeks. I wonder if their range has extended westward, maybe as an introduced species?

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Yes they're introduced and have displaced the native Longear Sunfish in a lot of streams. Redbreast Sunfish have been introduced as far west as Texas.

@MarkMeadows90 2 жыл бұрын

@@ShoalBandit Thanks for the info

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkMeadows90 Anytime thanks for watching!

@tylergoodale9840 2 жыл бұрын

Dude! This is awesome! To who am I speaking? Who's the video creator?

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you I'm glad you liked it! My name's Jason McRae and I made the video(s) for people like yourself. This channel is all about fish so I just wanted to have something people could use as a kind of reference/field guide. The Sunfish Family videos are also meant to be an introduction to the sunfish family so that everyone is on the same page before we move on to more advanced topics next year.

@anthonyvinci9054 2 жыл бұрын

This video is amazing but where did you get the pictures for the bluegill subspecies?

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! The fish were caught within the range of each subspecies. Some are composites of multiple images. Some are not. I made them with a program similar to Photoshop.

@chickensam12 2 жыл бұрын

i catch blue gill and pumpkinseed sunfish

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

Those Pumpkinseeds have some amazing colors!

@jamespimental6919 Ай бұрын

No such thing a millions of years. But still a cool video

@adrianlajas5336 Ай бұрын

What?

@jamespimental6919 Ай бұрын

@@adrianlajas5336 earth isn't millions of years old. Only about 6000

@rickf9804 2 жыл бұрын

Where can I buy a chart for comparing my catches?

@ShoalBandit 2 жыл бұрын

I made the chart in the video, but my channel is so small I don't sell merchandise. If you're talking about that chart, you can save a screen shot of it or send me an email and I'll send a copy. You can also Google 'sunfish ID chart' and find similar charts for sale.

@variedaddepescacontony146 Жыл бұрын

What species of blueguill are there in California?

@ShoalBandit Жыл бұрын

Northern Bluegill are the most common and have been stocked throughout California, but Coppernose Bluegill have also been introduced in a few areas (like Lake Perris).

@variedaddepescacontony146 Жыл бұрын

@@ShoalBandit I really like to go fishing for that something, especially for the bluguills, but for some time now, they have been indiscriminately fishing for them and their popularity in the lake has decreased

@ShoalBandit Жыл бұрын

@@variedaddepescacontony146 Sorry to hear about that I hope the population comes back soon.

@macy725 Ай бұрын

So Americans will get jealous at other countries because because they'll have pretty fish. I wonder if other countries get jealous of our sunfish because these are some pretty fish. I had a pet green sunfish that i used to feed crickets and worms to.

@ShoalBandit Ай бұрын

Well, if they're not they should be because sunfish are awesome! LOL

@micahhook3576 3 ай бұрын

I want a longear for my tank but i live in florida fuck

@ShoalBandit 3 ай бұрын

The creeks and rivers in the Florida panhandle have Longear Sunfish (from the Choctawhatchee drainage-west). It's called the Swampland Longear Sunfish (Lepomis solis).

@micahhook3576 3 ай бұрын

@@ShoalBandit i might drive up there and catch some honestly. Thanks

@ShoalBandit 3 ай бұрын

@@micahhook3576 No problem I know there's some in Big Coldwater Creek near Milton, FL. Lots of bank access if you don't have a boat.

@micahhook3576 3 ай бұрын

@@ShoalBandit awesome!!