Fish ID

[CJ W]

OK so I have this fish I caught in a trap and I can’t tell if it’s a warmouth (sunfish bluegill hybrid) or a regular sunfish or blue gill
If anyone knows please let me know asap

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Definitely not a pure bluegill.

Note that warmouth is its own species, not a hybrid.

I would keep till it gets larger

 

[CJ W]

Definitely not a pure bluegill.

Note that warmouth is its own species, not a hybrid.

I would keep till it gets larger

Ok thank you, and thank you for informing me that a warmouth is it’s own species, i did not know that

 

[rusto]

Looks like a warmouth to me, I've seen a lot of sunfish and the only ones that look like that are the warmouth, It's not circle shaped enough to be a bantam sunfish and it shaped like a green sunfish or warmouth. How big is its mouth in comparison to it size? A Warmouth will have a much bigger mouth than a bluegill will.

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Looks like a warmouth to me, I've seen a lot of sunfish and the only ones that look like that are the warmouth, It's not circle shaped enough to be a bantam sunfish and it shaped like a green sunfish or warmouth. How big is its mouth in comparison to it size? A Warmouth will have a much bigger mouth than a bluegill will.

It's either a warmouth or (less likely) a hybrid of a warmouth

 

[CJ W]

Looks like a warmouth to me, I've seen a lot of sunfish and the only ones that look like that are the warmouth, It's not circle shaped enough to be a bantam sunfish and it shaped like a green sunfish or warmouth. How big is its mouth in comparison to it size? A Warmouth will have a much bigger mouth than a bluegill will.

Here is a picture, sorry for how bad they are I wanted to get the fish back in the water ASAP

 

[rusto]

Definitely a warmouth, there the only sunfish with a mouth that big besides a green sunfish, and green sunfish look much different. I dont't see any hybridization in it, it's to long and skinny to be any of the taller sunfish hybrids, and it does not have any blue green rays on it's face that would point to a green sunfish hybrid. It can't be a rock bass hybrid because rock bass can't hybridizes with other sunfish. It also has ten dorsal spines on it dorsal fin which also points to warmouth versus some of the other sunfish.