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JIM

JIM

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What species of sunfish are native to your part of the country, the most common where i am in Indiana is , Longear, Green, Bluegill, Red ear, and of course Hybrids.
 
bluegill and pseed. also the occasional, and i mean VERY occasional red breast sunfish
 
Here in Tennessee we have all 12 species of Lepomis, though two of them are introduced (the redbreast and the pumpkinseed). We also have the flier, both crappies, rock and shadow bass, and largemouth, smallmouth, Coosa, and spotted bass. That's a total of 21 out of about 33 currently recognized centrarchid species. Not too shabby! I can catch 15 of those 21 within an hour's drive of my house.
 
Here in South Eastern North Carolina I can catch various pygmy sunfish, dollar sunfish, blue spotted sunfish, banded sunfish, black banded sunfish, mud sunfish, flier sunfish, redbreat sunfish, warmouth, pumpkinseed, bluegill, redear sunfish, and spotted sunfish. Oh yeah,black and white crappie and LMB.
 
None.

:cry:

There are no sunfish in Alberta.
 
Bluegill, pumpkinseed, green sunfish, LMB, SMB, black crappie, rock bass and greengills are most common in my area. I once caught a white crappie and two Orangespotted sunfish, but they are not common species in my area. Sometimes I caught pumpkinseed x bluegills and pumpkinseed x green from time to time. Never caught or saw warmouth and longear sunfish as they are rare and have limited home range in Minnesota.
 
We've got a bunch in Louisiana. At one time or another I've caught most of those listed below, excepting shadow bass and banded pygmy sunfish.

Known collectively as "Bream"

Bluegill,
Redear (we call them chinkapin)
Longear
redbreast
pumpkinseed
green
flier
orange spotted sunfish
Bantam sunfish
Dolalr sunfish
redspotted sunfish

banded pygmy sunfish

white crappie
black crappie
(both of the above known as Sac a lait)


Known collectively as Goggle eye

Warmouth
Shadow bass

White bass
LMB
Spotted Bass

Although not native, we now have a thriving population of Rio Grande Ciclids in Louisiana too.
 
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