Can anyone ID this fish?

My son caught it today in Bear Creek near Dripping Springs. The fish was about 12-14 inches long approx 1 lb.

I'm struggling with the right ID. I'm leaning towards a very large green sunfish.

If this is a green sunfish this is close to a Texas state record. We're going back to catch and take it in for official weigh-in.

Current state green sunfish record 1.3 lb - 11 inches

We've always called them goggle eyes. I think some people call. Them rock bass

Thanks. Yep, green sunfish. We're going hunting again tomorrow afternoon for her. Wish us luck...if it weighs more than 1.3 lbs we're taking it to Cabela's for official weigh-in.

http://www.huntstats.com/gsf.html

nice catch. Hope you can do it again tommorow.

Nice job. You might be able to get a catch and release record based on the length of the fish.

Great point! We will re-post once we have her measured and weighed on our scale with pics. I don't think we will kill it and take it in for weighing. Fingers crossed - hope it bites again.

I can't tell from the picture, but could be a warmouth. Warmouth's are referred to as goggle eye's and rock bass. Pretty sure they are different species than green sunfish.

Have caught them up to 2 lbs in Louisiana.

Nice Green! Needs to be a minimum 10" to be considered a Catch & Release Record.

Yea that's a greenie. . .and a huge one at that. congrats, go get her again!

Nice Green!