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Need help with sunfish ID

Started by Guest_robert06_* , Aug 19 2010 10:32 AM

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#1 Guest_robert06_*

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Posted 19 August 2010 - 10:32 AM

i caught this fish while cast netting close to the bank of the broad river in Columbia,SC

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#2 Michael Wolfe

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Posted 19 August 2010 - 10:49 AM

i caught this fish while cast netting close to the bank of the broad river in Columbia,SC

blue-GREEN lines on his face... elongate body and caudel peduncle... light margin on the back edge of the caudel fin.

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#3 Guest_Dustin_*

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Posted 19 August 2010 - 11:02 AM

This is a dollar sunfish(Lepomis marginatus).

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#4 Guest_panfisherteen_*

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Posted 19 August 2010 - 11:18 AM

thats a very nice looking fish =D>

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#5 Guest_UncleWillie_*

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Posted 19 August 2010 - 01:01 PM

I second Dustin's ID - Dollar sunfish

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#6 Guest_donkeyman876_*

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Posted 19 August 2010 - 03:38 PM

That is a very good looking fish, the blue fins look great!

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#7 Michael Wolfe

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Posted 19 August 2010 - 03:58 PM

then I was wrong, sorry

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#8 Guest_Skipjack_*

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Posted 19 August 2010 - 04:59 PM

Hey Dustin, what is it that makes this obviously a dollar sunfish, rather than a longear? I have little experience with dollar sunfish. Thanks.

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#9 Guest_Dustin_*

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Posted 19 August 2010 - 08:31 PM

Hey Dustin, what is it that makes this obviously a dollar sunfish, rather than a longear? I have little experience with dollar sunfish. Thanks.

Matt, to be honest, I am not sure I can tick off the primary differences between a longear and a dollar. The reason I know that is a dollar is that there are no longear in SC. The closest longear to here are in western GA. This is also my local dollar so I am very familiar with the nuances of the fish.

Michael, I can see the where redbreast would come to mind. The border around the opercular flap and the differences in the facial markings are what give it away. It is also a more compact fish than the redbreast and redbreast typically have, at least some, orangish coloration on the "breast" of the fish, especially if it is as colored as this fish.

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#10 Guest_Skipjack_*

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Posted 19 August 2010 - 09:51 PM

Matt, to be honest, I am not sure I can tick off the primary differences between a longear and a dollar. The reason I know that is a dollar is that there are no longear in SC. The closest longear to here are in western GA. This is also my local dollar so I am very familiar with the nuances of the fish.

Michael, I can see the where redbreast would come to mind. The border around the opercular flap and the differences in the facial markings are what give it away. It is also a more compact fish than the redbreast and redbreast typically have, at least some, orangish coloration on the "breast" of the fish, especially if it is as colored as this fish.

Thanks Dustin, I was looking at that less than ideal photo, and was wondering what I was missing. I could not make a positive ID, and thought maybe there was something obvious that I was overlooking.

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#11 Guest_Irate Mormon_*

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Posted 19 August 2010 - 10:03 PM

Michael, I can see the where redbreast would come to mind.

Dustin, you just don't go with the percentages as Michael obviously does. Now, where did you read RED into that post?

What have I told youse guys over and over? Wasn't it Drew himself who suggested that a certain sunfish ID is correct 90% of the time?

Even if you miss one occasionally, you don't actually have to know what the sunfish IS. You will still be right 90% of the time!