Sunfish!

[bronzefly]

We all love catching sunfish, Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass included, but sometimes, catching a few of these is a blast too, especially on light tackle!

Female Green Sunfish


Male Green Sunfish spawning colors


Male Green Sunfish spawning colors


Bluegill

[Obz]

Had no idea green sunfish existed, cool looking specimen! I have had some good times casting baby crankbaits for gills and crappie. The crickhop slays 'em

[BigG]

Nice bullgill!

[Finesse68]

Beautiful fish, and that's one chubby bluegill!! Always a blast catching a few of those on some ultralight tackle.

[Dug]

Nice Looking Greens and that Bluegill is a beauty!

Dug

[Eric Walsh]

Holy smokes Gary, those fish have been on ped's for quite some time!

[toddmc]

All sunfish are cool. My kid's love to wear em' out on plastics.
Lake Havasu has world record red-ear sunfish that look like dark hubcaps in the water. They eat four inch tubes with no problem. I stop to catch one occasionally when I see one that is two pounds or heavier on a bed. My best is probably about 3.5 pounds. My friend's have accidentally caught them over 5 lbs. in bass tournaments.
I haven't fly-lined sunfish for big bass on private lakes since I was a kid. It's hard to look at a sunfish as anything but bait once you have caught big bass on them. Our public waters would be empty if they could be used as live bait.

[Redlinerobert]

Nice! And that bluegill is a toad!

[LowRange]

Is that a bus or a blugill?

[papabassin]

That last Bluegill ain't got no neck, bruh. Everyday is chest and trap day for that dude

[earthworm77]

That gill has a pack of franks on his forehead.

[Tokugawa]

You can tell by the size of that gill's black spot - he is on roids.