Sunfish ID help

Caught four decent-sized sunfish this morning on a white woolly bugger. Most of the sunfish I catch at this pond are bluegill and green sunfish. The four this morning didn't look like the bluegill I normally catch, which are darker with a pronounced blue area on the face, but since bluegill can vary so much in appearance I wasn't sure if these were bluegill or not. If they aren't, any idea what they are? Thanks.

Here are two looks at today's fish.

Looks like a hybrid sunfish. Bluegill/Redear mix! Just my two cents.




A lot of sunfish have been inner breeding over the years making it hard to I.D. fish. I have talked with several wildlife biologist who state the same.

Pretty sunfish for sure. It does look a lot like a red ear. But hybrids are really common now. So much so its crazy.

Thanks. I was thinking redear but none of the ones I caught had redears, so I wasn't sure. A hybrid makes sense.

The second looks like a longear.

Looks to me to be a Brim fish. Google images Brim fish/perch.

1- Redear
2- Hybrid

Gotta agree with Fitz on this one. The first one looks like a regular redear to me. The second looks like a longear/redear hybrid. It has the body pattern of a redear with the head of a longear.

You make that sound bad

Whatever they are, they are nice ones!

WTG

Nice fish. Redear/Bluegill mix!

Looks like a red ear hybrid to me, nice fish -chap