Sunfish ID

[Pumpkinseed]

My son caught this tonight at Valley Forge National Park near catfish island.



My guess is a green x pumpkinseed, but the shape and mouth show no pumpkinseed. About 2 months ago I caught a green x seed upstream about 3 miles, but that one was more obvious, the body was taller, the mouth smaller, the pattern more pronounced, and the gill spot pure red. There is a batch of green x seed in these waters, and this fish is about the same size as the other green x seed.

The only thing I see different about this fish from a pure green is a larger than normal gill spot, and a slightly different pattern and coloration.

Here is what a typical green looks like at the same location:

 

[MN_Rebel]

Looks like a young green x bluegill to me. It's most common hybrid in our local lakes.

 

[MDFishTanks]

Looks almost like a warmouth. Did you catch this in the Susquehanna? There are a lot of them in there.

 

[JasonsPlecosCichlids]

For sure not a Warmouth, it's a hybrid of one of the two mentioned above.

 

[Lepisosteus]

I would say pumpkinseedxwarmoth as well but that's a very unlikely hybrid so I guess pumpkin seed green is your best bet

 

[MN_Rebel]

I would say pumpkinseedxwarmoth as well but that's a very unlikely hybrid so I guess pumpkin seed green is your best bet

Don't see any warmouth in there. I've seen this hybrid (green x bluegill or green x pumpkinseed) almost every time I went fishing and we do not have any warmouth in this area since we are too north from warmouth range.

 

[Montelboom]

I think its a greenXpumpkinseed

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[MN_Rebel]

The problem is that green x pumpkinseed and green x bluegill hybrids can br super resemble to each other that even experts can't IDed it without DNA testing.

 

[Montelboom]

So without a dna test its a 50/50 chance of either one

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[Rob8112]

Looks like it has green sunfish in it to me.