Think this is a redear?

[Lane Thurgood]

4-Mile Run yesterday on a foam spider.  All my buddies just lump everything there as "brim," but I remain interested in the identification.

 

I think this is a redear, but if so, it would be my first redear out of 4MR.  I have taken plenty of pumpkinseeds there, though, so maybe a pumpkinseed hybrid?

 

Maybe I'm the only one who cares, but what do you think?  Redear?  (Work computer won't let me attach a photo, so I'll have to reply from my phone with photo....)

 

 

[Lane Thurgood]

[TurbineBlade]

Looks like one to me -- I've never caught one in my life, but now I want to ;).  Pumpkinseed are common like you mentioned, but that's a new one to me.  I think if you love sunfish you can die happy.  

I was there yesterday from about 7-11 trying out a 6' and a 6'6" glass rod.  I didn't see anyone, but I was only in the vicinity of the outfall.  

Sunfish and bass are fun on a short fly rod.  A lot of people don't like them, but they're not too bad.  All fishing rods are "toys" and the entire hobby is fairly pointless (catching fish and then letting them go), so who cares?  I think I'll put the 6'6" to use in the park full-time this year.  

Thanks for posting a picture of a sunfish -- 

Gene

On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 11:24:52 AM UTC-5, Lane Thurgood wrote:

[tperkins]

Lane, did you wade past two guys fishing just from the outfall? Gene must have just missed you. Scott and I got there a bit after 11.

[tperkins]

Gene I agree with you about short fly rods. I brought my 8 wt because I was testing out some new flies I had tied, but I wish I had my butterstick 3wt. It would have been great for the sunfish and bass I was catching.

[TurbineBlade]

Funny - did you see that purple bicycle hanging over the south bank where the cop always parks?  There were a lot of fairly hungry bass hanging out in 8" of water there.  Did the outfall produce yesterday after I left?  It was very productive Friday, but slower yesterday (at least for me).  I did better roaming the banks on both sides, still within sight of the outfall.  

I consider 4MR a fairly easy place to study sunfish behavior.  Plus it jives with tpfr's "fish where everyone's poop is", local thing.  

Gene

On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 12:18:41 PM UTC-5, tperkins wrote:

[Lane Thurgood]

Nope.  I was not wading.  I had to work until 4, but in light of the warm temps I moseyed over to take a look figuring a late start was better than no start at all.  At 4, there were lots of people there.  Two were just wrapping up fishing right at the outflow (spin rods) and more than half a dozen wading over the quarter mile below that (most with fly rods).  Although I walked and scouted all the way up to the outflow, I fished much closer to the bridge than the outflow.  I know not everybody gets into sunfish, but I had some serious v-wakes of chunky bluegill vectoring in on that foam spider.  Only fished for a bit more than 30 minutes, but was happy to get that brief break in those unseasonably warm temps for February. 

[tperkins]

Out fall did not produce at all for me. I didn't check out the bike! I guess I should have. I wandered only a bit down from the outfall but found a few huge schools of bass and sunfish. It was great, caught a few chunky bluegills. Lane- I love sunfish they put up such a great fight!

[Scott Stankus]

Yeah, like Thomas said, the outfall didn't produce anything for us yesterday. We had all of our success stalking the north bank casting under the trees. Here are a few photos. 

--Scott

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[Andy Thomas]

Could be a redear but I can't tell if there is any red/orange coloration around the gills.  To be honest, it looks like a bream and crappie hybrid.