I have never come across a perch with a mouth this large this was a small one I caught one the night before that would have been at least 11 inches long so if somebody can tell me what this is I would be interested in knowing,

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thanks
R.

That's a Green Sunfish. Large mouths, very aggressive, not usually very big. An 11 incher may have been a state record lol.

I can't tell because I am using a crappy moniter, but it looks like a warmouth.

It looks like a warmouth, or as I would have called it when I was a kid, a goggleye.

Nah, it's definitely a Green Sunfish. The body shape and mouth size are similiar to that of a Warmouth, but the colors are all wrong.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fish/infish/species/sunfish/grn.phtml

There's the TPWD page for Green Sunfish.

And here is the page for Warmouth, as you can see, the colors are totally different.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fish/infish/species/sunfish/war.phtml

Robert, what you caught was definitely a green sunfish. Also, the one you have pictured is about the average size, they tend to stunt out easily.

i can promise you that is a green sunfish i always catch em bass fishin they will hit a 8 inch worm

This pond I fish has a ton of them in there. the 11 inch one swallowed a full size fluke with a #5 gama hook.

are they good to eat? I can catch these pretty regular and most are this size or better.

thanks for the info.

From what I can see it looks like a Red X Perch!

RED X

You will need to close the tff site and reopen it, for some reason it did the same to me. I can see the pics just fine now

Yep, nice looking Red X-Ear perch!

Try this link if you cant see the fish

http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/3f39a914_28d0/46c1/__sr_/51d0.jpg?phdWjtCBvy.FL2aW


http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/3f39a914_28d0/46c1/__sr_/f6dc.jpg?phdWjtCBdoGneAwm

hope this helps

Still can't see 'em, but to answer your other question, any sunfish is good eatin' from what I've found...Green sunfish and redears (shellcrackers) are the best IMO cos they're thicker bodied (and thus a thicker fillet). @ 10-11", you better clean 'em up, cos them is some good eatin' fillets right there!

That is a Green as has been stated. They are scrappy little guys and great to eat if you can catch enough and big enough one. I have a creek I catch em out of in the 9 inch range at times. I would not eat anything from that creek but they are still fun and about as agressive as anything in the water.

I have two in a fish tank with some other sun fish and some bull heads. They own the tank! I will put in a few dozen netted minnows and it is a slaughter!

yeah i caught one of those yesterday at my local ponds... i was wacky worming a 6" yum worm and somehow managed to catch him lol , felt like a bass until i got it out of the water, they are crazy.