Caught these in a Florida canal, help ID?

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All the latter ones are sunfish. The one at the top of this page (is that also the one on the left side of the net?) looks like it might be a juvie warmouth, I'm seeing some stripes on the face and the gillspot is in the right area. Hard to tell at that size though.
Actually looks almost like it could be a banded sunfish, but they're rare, and it needs a better pic.

The one on the right side of the net just looks like a bluegill.
 
I'm so jealous of you Floridians. If you ignore all the damage that invasives do, you have an awesome combination of strange exotic fish and awesome native fish.
 
Bottomfeeder said:
I'm so jealous of you Floridians. If you ignore all the damage that invasives do, you have an awesome combination of strange exotic fish and awesome native fish.
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Yeah, a guy down the road pulled a 14 inch tiger oscar out of this same canal....oops. The variety is awesome but its a 50/50 toss up as to what you pull out of any waterway here that it will be native or not.

I let them all go, there are hundreds up these swimming around the banks. Ghost shrimp are also everywhere...pretty sure thats what they are.

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And the local solution to aquarium fish that are too big is to donate them to the canals. It's upsetting but whats done is done. I doubt anything in these waterways is a native except the mosquito fish and sunfish. You never know what you'll get. People have caught blood parrots, oscars, koi, goldfish, assorted platies and mollies..just about everything.

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One canal has an established oscar population apparently, I've heard many people mention it, haven't seen it for myself though.

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Mollies are actually native for you guys, but I'm guessing they've been so mixed with so many random aquarium strains they're probably not pure anymore. :\
 
ShadowBass said:
Mollies are actually native for you guys, but I'm guessing they've been so mixed with so many random aquarium strains they're probably not pure anymore. :\
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Pretty sure I caught some of those too, either that or they were a silvery speckled platy. They had the flat mouths and everything.

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