Minnow ID?

[dthomasi]

Caught this in a minnow trap in a river in Northeast WI. Haven't seen one before as I used to be a lot further north. Also I couldn't find it online. Any help is appreciated.

The pictures are a bit blurry, but it has a relatively tall brown colored body with fluorescent green speckles. Unfortunately it flopped into the water before I could get a better picture or more detailed description.



Thanks!

 

[Cu455]

Looks like a sunfish to me.

 

[Drx6x]

to blurry to be sure but think its a green sunfish definitely some variety of sunfish to be sure

 

[predatorkeeper87]

sunfish, either green, pumpkinseed, or longear. cant tell.

 

[klmt]

My immediate thought was Green Sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus, but it's difficult to say for sure without clearer pictures.

 

[Meghanbridget33]

Looks like a baby small mouth bass, they have straight lines, whereas large mouth don't, they have a dark greenish black coloration

 

[MN_Rebel]

Looks like a baby small mouth bass, they have straight lines, whereas large mouth don't, they have a dark greenish black coloration

NOPE! It's a sunfish. Smallmouth bass should have tri- colored tail.

 

[wcgunns]

My vote is a green sunfish

 

[xraycer]

Looks like a baby small mouth bass, they have straight lines, whereas large mouth don't, they have a dark greenish black coloration

NOPE! It's a sunfish. Smallmouth bass should have tri- colored tail.

Also, baby smb have a narrower elongated body and no bars at all. Here's mine at about 3" from nearly 2 summers ago

 

[divemaster99]

Definitely some Green in it, might be a hybrid though.