Whats a hybrid sunfish?

[Morquinn23]

I was just reading that there are hybrid sunfish in the lake I live on... I would like to know what the heck these are? What do they look like? I have caught many sunfish on this lake, but nothing that doesnt look like a bluegill or pumpkinseed or regular lookin sunfish.

[united jigsticker]

A fish that runs on both gas and electric power.

No.

It's a cross between two different kinds of Sunfish, basically.

Like a Bluegill and a Green Sunfish, a Bluegill and a Warmouth, a Warmouth and a Pumpkinseed, etc etc.

[Slyster]

Here is a White Bear Lake hybrid. At least it better be otherwise this one was a state record!

[delmuts]

a fish that runs on gas and electric???????

[united jigsticker]

Well thats what they call the chevy and ford vehicles.....

[Morquinn23]

LOL that was funny, anyways, thanks a bunch, I didnt even know that.

[Matt Breuer]

I would say that the fish above is a green sunfish. Typically when a green and a bluegill hybridize, you get the green or blue hint like the green, but much less prominent, and you get a smaller mouth like the bluegill.

The 2nd picture may be a hybrid, smaller mouth...

Hybrids are very tough to ID a lot of times, and there are so many different hybridizations. Bluegill/green, and bluegill/pumpkinseed are the most common.

Here's a link to help ID sunfish...

[Matt Breuer]

Here's a green sunfish from Saturday...

[Sonicrunch]

^^^^ Are you sure? Correct me if I am wrong, but green sunfish have a large mouth and a thick body. Like a small Bass.

[Matt Johnson]

Yep, that's a greenie. The mouth doesn't look all that large in the picture but you can tell by the gill plate and the crease from the jaw... and by the way Breuer is holding the fish you can also tell it's relatively thick...

[Cooter]

So what exactly is a warmouth - I've been told its a bluegill/largemouth cross?