Sunfish ID?

[Sean Steele]

Caught today by my 9-year-old on spinning gear with bread balls:

[Daniel Lazenby]

Excellent fish young man

Daniel

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:01 PM Sean Steele <spst...@gmail.com> wrote:

Caught today by my 9-year-old on spinning gear with bread balls:

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[Lane Thurgood]

And you've hit on exactly why southerners call them bream.  Tough to tell with 100% certainty from a pic, but it looks like a pumpkinseed to me quite possibly with some bluegill genes, too.

[Andrew Sarcinello]

I agree - looks like a bluegill x pumpkinseed hybrid.

[Luther Penny]

We called them Shellcrackers; not sure how the name fits the fish

[Daniel Lazenby]

According to the Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of Virginia, some members of the Sunfish family have Molariform teeth in their throats used for crushing the shells of snails and small mussels. Pumpkinseed and Redear are two examples of Sunfish whose primary food source is snails, mussels, and small crustation.

Daniel

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 5:27 PM Luther Penny <luther...@gmail.com> wrote:

We called them Shellcrackers; not sure how the name fits the fish

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[Owen Williams]

Daniel, you are ALWAYS “value-added”! Thanks for this fun fact.

Best,
Owen

[Daniel Lazenby]

Thank you for the compliment. Sometimes I find it fun to figure out the "why?".

Daniel

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