Checkout this bluegill!!

[The best pacu keeper]

its a redear sunfish

 

[andyjs]

its a redear sunfish

Nope

 

[scottgeeze]

It's hard to say. Bluegills and Sunfish interbreed so much that it's almost impossible to tell what kind it is but it is a big and healthy one for sure. I looked in my fresh water book and it might be a longear sunfish.

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

Nope

um yes it is

 

[drewish]

um yes it is

ummm, no it really isn't

 

[JDS]

um yes it is

first the red ear rang is farther south.and no they haven't been introduced in this lake.

 

[JDS]

I can't what till we get sum ice. it will be a lot easier to fish because all the people that Owen houses on the shore wont be able to tell me to leave.

 

[sandtiger]

um yes it is

Redears don't live in NY.

It's hard to say. Bluegills and Sunfish interbreed so much that it's almost impossible to tell what kind it is but it is a big and healthy one for sure. I looked in my fresh water book and it might be a longear sunfish.

Longears are a threatened species in NY with a very limited distribution in Western NY.
Its a pumpkinseed; 100% and very nice looking.

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

how can you say red ear range is south i catch them here all the time in MI they have been stocked as far north east as Maine

Pumkin seed have a small red dot not a small lining of red along the "ear"

Red ear sunfish


Pumpkin seed sunfish

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

notice the red dot which the fish in question does not have