Baby Fish ID
- Thread starter Wiggles92
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NO! Those are smallmouth bass i catch em all the time in my net.I let them go because they are stocked and im only looking for soft feeder fish.
1000% smb.
1000% smb.
Check your state laws first. In many places sunfish are considered gamefish, so if you take any home they must be taken by hook and line. In other places it is illegal to take live fish home at all.
That said, juvenile sunfish can be easily collected with a dipnet, seine, or funnel trap. You have to hit the right habitat, which for most of them is shallow margins of ponds and lakes, weedy swamps and backwaters, eddies of streams and rivers, etc. They tend not to venture into open water as much as adult sunfish (and juvenile bass) do.
That said, juvenile sunfish can be easily collected with a dipnet, seine, or funnel trap. You have to hit the right habitat, which for most of them is shallow margins of ponds and lakes, weedy swamps and backwaters, eddies of streams and rivers, etc. They tend not to venture into open water as much as adult sunfish (and juvenile bass) do.
All of the native fish (bluegill, SMB, etc.) in my pictures are bred in my pond. I currently have a ton of small sunfish (1" or smaller) in my pond that I can catch some in late May when I get back from college. I imagine that I will also have some small SMBs and maybe even small walleye/saugeye/sauger (not exactly sure) by then, too.
College is what happened, dude. I go to school in Ohio, so I don't get to come back home much and I usually have little time or reason to post on here since I don't have any fish at school with me.
On an amusing side note, the some of the grounds department people at school said that there were alligator gar in the one pond, so I'll be keeping my eye out for them.
P.S. Sorry for digging up a few of my old threads.
On an amusing side note, the some of the grounds department people at school said that there were alligator gar in the one pond, so I'll be keeping my eye out for them.
P.S. Sorry for digging up a few of my old threads.
