Thanks for watching! The guide is found at: www.koaw.org/sunfishes Some of the locations in this video were not specifically revealed to protect certain fish populations so I kindly ask not to reveal in the comments if you are aware of those spots. Cheers! -K
This is AMAZING stuff and very fun to watch. Biology, science, and live fishing quests. This is EXACTLY what's missing with all the pop fishing vids. A lot of those have devolved into "this is my new truck" "Q&A with my girlfriend". Love the animations and production.
Thanks for checking this one out too FLATX! Yeah, sometimes that 'devolved' content is amusing but I'm going to try to make each video a bit educational, even if it's just a fishing trip. Thanks again for watching this one!
@@KNFishingSmarts You're doing it right. I like the little details like your hockey team and your family stuff. And then back to fishing. Perfect balance. Also Interested in your camping setups, how you identify what makes a good sunfish spot to fish, travel, food lodging tips, etc
I don't usually watch fishing, but it was nice to follow you on this journey. I'm so impressed by the amount of work you put in to get these pictures and measurements. It brought to mind the naturalists of the last century, who went out with some inner motivation and brought back knowledge that we are still using a hundred years later. Maybe you understand more about their work now. I hope the Lepomid guide ends up being a long-term useful resource. At the very least, this was a good story.
Thanks for checking this one out! I know you are a busy man and fishing isn't quite your thing. But yeah...it's just that inclination to follow through on an idea and sometimes an adventure coincides with the process. I'm looking forward to our Koaw Nature/BioBush collaboration!
Such an underrated channel! Your guide has been especially helpful for me down in Northern Florida. Thank you for making that an amazing resource!! And it was even more interesting to see your journey in catching and developing the guide with this video. Great job!
Good Job! Thanks for showing each fish clearly, speaking about the species and listing its proper names. This is very educational. I find myself trying to memorize these names. Awesome..thanks again!
I’m in Arlington and have fished every mud puddle around NOVA. In so doing I’ve discovered so many exotic looking panfish species. Your guide is gonna help me identify them, thank you!
good stuff man! loved the video. That was a cool mission. I have picked up fishing for sunfish after many years off...had to relearn all the taxonomy - which led me to this guide...nailed it!
This video and your website got me super into lepmis identification. I think it also subconsciously made me want to switch from the conventional fishing world over to fly fishing. I couldn't tell you the last time I caught a fresh water fish on a spinning set up now. Thank you.
Doesn’t it look weird just a year later how reactionary healthy young people got to the “pandemic”. Loved the fishing and pics of the sunnies. Your spirit is infectious.
Wow ! I am 73 years old and have not seen a Hornyhead Chub fish sense I was 6 or 7 years old fishing with my Grandmother,she cooked and we ate those little fish,filled with many y-shaped bones. Thank for bringing back fund memories.
I much appreciate the encouragement Christopher! I'm just trying not to sacrifice quality with quantity. But I do enjoy making videos for other fishers. So do expect more to come!
Great channel. Great videos. Fished the Great lakes and Niagara river for years. Got a bunch of Trophies. Now Microfishing for species count and I.D. is far more rewarding and challenging. A 180 Degree turn I suppose. Again, Awesome stuff you provide here Man. Sub forever.
Appreciate that, Tom. And yeah, I've been a bit similar. When I was younger it was always about chasing the biggest fish and now, I just have a greater appreciation for all species; catching 'em and learning about 'em. Cheers!
As someone who has been tasked by family to manage farm ponds on the family land in North/central Mississippi hill country, this was highly educational. We have 5 fishable stocked ponds, the largest being 5 acres and others much smaller that get low but never dry up. We just stocked a newly built one with F1 Tiger Bass, shellcrackers who seem to be getting massive with little help and coppernose bluegill. We are feeding them with high-quality protein pellets. Put the bluegill and shellcrackers in in March. Threadfin shad not long after and F1 Tiger bass about a month after that. It's early August and everything we put in there are like piranha. Extremely aggressive and hungry and they are growing big with the automatic feeder machine we keep maintained. Very happy with the results so far. Stocked in March, these fish are biting anything and they are growing fast. Enjoying the process
Ah, very cool. Pond management can be a demanding task! Those automatic feeders are a must for time-saving. Glad you shared your experience with us. And best of luck on the quality of fishing in those ponds.
Your absolute dedication to sunfish is amazing. I love Green sunfish. I have a massive Green sunfish in my 175 aquarium. I fish them out of a small pond just full of pure black green sunnies.
This was a really great adventure. I consider myself an avid fisherman, but I learned so many new things about lepomids. Great work- thank you for sharing!
I appreciate that! And again thank you so much for the great information. You're contribution has done so much to help make the guide and help people identifying these fishes. And I should apologize! I totally forgot to tell you that I had published this. So sorry about that. And on your other comment, yeah I just found that glass with the flat panes is great. It's very hard to scratch and offers a much better clarity of the fish in photos. I've actually made a few smaller glass tanks of different sizes for the smaller fishes (darters, minnows, ect.); species in various genera I know you enjoy finding. It's actually not too hard nor expensive if you're a DIY kind of guy. Cheers and thanks again!
Ok so this was an awesome video! I very rarely watch videos (let alone hour long videos) but this was documented so well. Thank you for making! Ever in SW Michigan and want to fish, hit me up 🤠👊🏽
Thanks much! I didn't know about your channel but I just checked out some of your content. I'll be sure to be checking out more! You have great passion and a great way of articulating your fishing experience. And yeah, I appreciate the offer! Most years I take a trip past that area. Maybe a future collaboration.
I really enjoyed watching this. Sadly, in southern Ohio, I can only catch bluegill, redbreast, pumpkinseed, and greenies in the creeks. Thanks for sharing your adventure and fish on.
Much thanks Stephan! If you're in southern Ohio then there should be some longear nearby and possibly some orangespotted depending on your location. Appreciate you watching! Good luck catching sunfishes!
Interesting channel! I began the quest to catch every fish species in the Thames river (ontario) last June. I'm up to 24 species I think! Just about to begin trapping minnow types...shiners, chubs, darters etc... I hope you do videos on micro fishing!
Looks like you posted this a month ago but it got delayed in the comment filter! But yeah, congrats on 24 species already in the Thames. I may do some microfishing videos in the future.
Omg I added this question just as you were jumping down the wall and seconds later answered my question! @31:18 :: What telescoping rod are you using here?
Congrats on what I would deem a fairly amazing feat. Finding and catching all of the Lepomids is tougher than many would think. Habitats and hybridization makes it tough in some places.
@@KNFishingSmarts its complicated but when the bluegill was small it got bullied by the sunfish. Now that the bluegill is grown up it has a grudge with the sunfish. They don’t get along but have enough room to avoid eachother. The rock bass and warmouth are just there to eat anything lol, no problems there haha
next time you need to rent boats on bigger lakes during the spawn and then try to catch some big ones of each. nice skipjack those things are so much fun to catch at the dam. i use em for bait for commercial catfishing and you can get em 4-5 at a time with a bunch of jigs tied on with white curly tails. they are like mini tarpons. bluegills are fun because they dont take a long time to bite if they are around.
I fish Duck Creek all the time. Sometimes it can be very tough to fish with all the vegetation. Glad you got to check some species off your list. Thanks for the video and all your research. The guide is informative.
Thanks Handsome Stranger! I really should have checked the south area of Duck Creek first. I planned that one poorly. There were much better waters on that southern shoreline. What species do you go for at Duck Creek? I saw some chunky grass pickerel in there.
Awesome man , I was in that area today sampling. Got 11 species and a wild card fish im gonna have to send you a picture. I'm thinking it's a pumpkinseed × bluegill
Nice! 11 species in one day is not bad at all. All on rod and reel? Also, you should get on iNaturalist to post some of your fish observations. There are a few other experts on lepomid IDs that also enjoy taking a look at peoples' hybrids for ID. And thanks for watching!
Ive just recently gotten into the realm of lepomids and am thoroughly impressed by your knowledge AND enthusiasm for the species. Most have one or the other but u have both and very well put together videos and guides. Ive looked over your guide and didnt see much in the category of juvenile identification. Is this just impractical or did i miss this in thr guide?
Very kind of you to say that Chase. And yes, you bring up a great point about the juveniles. I will work to add more information on juveniles onto the individual species pages in the coming months. But...basically most lepomids smaller than 1 inch - 1.5 inches are very hard to tell apart because the color is bland, the patterns are so similar, and the opercular flaps aren't developed. So yes, as you said its sort of impractical. However, I should expand on that and make it clear. Once they get a bit bigger then there are enough features to examine to make the ID. Thanks again for bringing this to my attention. Cheers!
Thanks Rick. As of now, I'm waiting to make a physical chart (field guide cheat sheet). The longear species complex may or may not be divided into multiple species. As of now, www.koaw.org/sunfishes is the digital resource for checking out all the species.
we know such little about the world we live in and take it for granted we know it all. its all there in the details if you care enough to look. i am a fishkeeper who has never taken the time to look at the native fish surrounding me. i am astounded at that realization.
Thanks for posting this I've been looking for a good photo list of all the species of sunfish. When I Google photo list for them they're normally only 7 listed on it
A great way for you to study them maybe build a huge tank and put all of the species in there and see how they breed and what not. I bet you could get a lot of data
Definitely Kaleb, and that's what many fisheries biologists do to study 'em. However, I don't have a lab right now and I travel too often to keep tanks at my place. One day I might explore creating some different hybrid types. Cheers!
Thanks Ben. I was in your neck-of-the-woods for a bit! And yeah, it's easy to confuse them as they are so similar. In fact, the northern sunfish still has such similar DNA to longear sunfish that it's really only the slight morphological/behavioral features that separated the two species.
I suggest if you ever get a chance to fish in Lee County in South West Virginia there is a place called keokee lake it's a pond that's about 4 acres and there are 2 pound bluegill in there and very big bass
Fliers are awesome. They look like crappie to me. I had never heard of them or encountered them before your videos. I'd like to target them, hope they are down here in TX.
I agree. The flier is a cool looking species. If you're targeting them in Texas then you have to hit up the eastern border. They are up and down the Sabine River and those drainages.
Do you have any ideas for bait to catch an orange spotted sunfish? I have literally been fishing every day for the last three weeks in a variety of turbid large rivers and have just about caught everything else. Thanks for the inspiration.
Hey Stephen. Yeah, I actually just caught a whole bunch of orangespotted sunfish in Ohio last week. All I was doing was using a size 18 hook (tiny!) with itty-bitty chunks of cut worm. Find a brush pile in the shallows, vegetation along the shore, or if you're lucky, you'll see some males sitting on/around nests in about 6-12 inches of water. Then just yo-yo the bait around slowly in those areas. If ya want bigger orangespotted, a size 10 hook works fine...it just minimizes the odds of catching 'em. Cheers and good luck.
Thanks and good luck with the competition. I've had good success nabbing pumpkinseed lately with paddle-tail soft plastics on weighted jig heads. 1/16 - 1/32 weighted head with a size 6 hook.
Hey Steven. I was only targeting species in the genus Lepomis. Sacremento perch is in the genus Archoplites (same family as Lepomis) as you've addressed below. The Rio Grande cichlid (sunfish) is in an entirely different family than Lepomis. There are only 13 lepomids as of now and each does have many different common names depending on the region. I'm not quite sure which you might be referencing with the black banded.
One dollar was captured in the Lumber River in Lumberton just near the highway. And I can't reveal publicly the exact location of the first batch due to my promise to the angler who guided me there. However, I can tell you that nearby Aumun Lake and the Weymouth Woods-Sandhill Nature Preserve have dollar in the nearby waters.
Have pictures of sunfish that don't look like any of documented varieties shown by this gentlemen. Would like to send photos of them but don't know how.
Hey Kurt, you can fill out a form on my contact page on my website and I'll get back to you. I use this method to limit the amount of spam I receive. www.koaw.org/contact
Hey where do I stand my best chance at catching longear sunfish here around Jackson Mississippi. It's the only species remaining of the sunfish, native to Mississippi that I have yet to positively catch. Much thanks to anyone who can help.
This will give a quick glimpse of local longear: www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=33.00298117828051&nelng=-87.78706666330436&place_id=any&subview=map&swlat=31.72707616247401&swlng=-91.58009644846061&taxon_id=58635
Thanks and indeed I was. I made an agreement with my family to be overly cautious during a time where little research existed on the spreading of COVID-19. I never contracted the virus and I wouldn't have done it another way to keep my friend and family members safe.
@@KNFishingSmarts Thanks for the response. This was a great video and I enjoyed watching it. But the virtue signaling was completely unnecessary. The video was great. It did not need the extra content. The shot with all the cleaning supplies was just laughable. I don't even know what to say about wearing a mask alone. There's really no words to describe how stupid that is. Enjoy your fear, my friend. I will continue to enjoy your non virtue signaling content. I'm a fan.
Hey I’m late to comment but do you think it would be possible to keep all 13 common sunfish species in the same fish tank, and how big of a fish tank you think to keep them all in. I think a 125 gallon or 300 gallon would be around the right size. Comment me back what you think thank.😊
That is quite an ambitious task to get all 13 in the same tank! I really don't know if that is possible. Theoretically, they could all probably survive under the same pH, temperature and water conditions. But you'd have to supply the different habitat preferences for each one. Caves for warmouth and green. Plenty of vegetation for bantam and orangespotted. Really, it'd be when the mating rituals kicked in that the species would become very aggressive and harmful towards each other. The bigger the tank the better--125 is fairly big. But perhaps not even big enough. I just don't know Kam! Sorry.
@@KNFishingSmarts thanks for replying, I think the different habitats wouldn’t be problem for me, cause just like you, I research a lot. And I’m keeping a lot of fish to learn the sunfish behaviors. And already have 4 species in one fish tank but it’s only a 55 gallon fish tank. Yet again thanks for replying
Dude, please don't tell me you drive around N. America, camping and catching tasty panfish, and you don't carry an iron skillet and a jar of bacon grease!
Haha...well C.J., I left the cast iron skillet and grease at home for a couple reasons. 1) It's not really proper to eat specimens that go towards the research. 2) I could only lug around so much field gear! But now my skillet is back on the job! Cheers man!
Another video that claims to show "all the common sunfish" but leaves smallmouth, largemouth, and rock bass out of the list. Say panfish, if youre unfamiliar with sunfish.
Because he's going by the Latin "common sunfish". Bass are not part of Lepomids. Why comment if you're not familiar with the topic ? It would be impossible to try and do it using nicknames across all parts of the world. That's why Latin is used as the common lang in Scientific Taxonomy.
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Thanks for watching! The guide is found at: www.koaw.org/sunfishes Some of the locations in this video were not specifically revealed to protect certain fish populations so I kindly ask not to reveal in the comments if you are aware of those spots. Cheers! -K
This is AMAZING stuff and very fun to watch. Biology, science, and live fishing quests. This is EXACTLY what's missing with all the pop fishing vids. A lot of those have devolved into "this is my new truck" "Q&A with my girlfriend". Love the animations and production.
Thanks for checking this one out too FLATX! Yeah, sometimes that 'devolved' content is amusing but I'm going to try to make each video a bit educational, even if it's just a fishing trip. Thanks again for watching this one!
@@KNFishingSmarts You're doing it right. I like the little details like your hockey team and your family stuff. And then back to fishing. Perfect balance. Also Interested in your camping setups, how you identify what makes a good sunfish spot to fish, travel, food lodging tips, etc
AMAZING content brother thank you 🤝
This scratches all my itches. Nature, science, taxonomy, outdoorsin...love it man!
Thanks again! It scratches all my itches too...haha!
I don't usually watch fishing, but it was nice to follow you on this journey. I'm so impressed by the amount of work you put in to get these pictures and measurements. It brought to mind the naturalists of the last century, who went out with some inner motivation and brought back knowledge that we are still using a hundred years later. Maybe you understand more about their work now. I hope the Lepomid guide ends up being a long-term useful resource. At the very least, this was a good story.
Thanks for checking this one out! I know you are a busy man and fishing isn't quite your thing. But yeah...it's just that inclination to follow through on an idea and sometimes an adventure coincides with the process. I'm looking forward to our Koaw Nature/BioBush collaboration!
Such an underrated channel! Your guide has been especially helpful for me down in Northern Florida. Thank you for making that an amazing resource!! And it was even more interesting to see your journey in catching and developing the guide with this video. Great job!
Appreciate you appreciating the channel, Nicholas! I'm very glad the guide has helped you out.
Go Avs! I'm a fan of sunfish too. Thanks for the teaching.
Good Job! Thanks for showing each fish clearly, speaking about the species and listing its proper names. This is very educational. I find myself trying to memorize these names. Awesome..thanks again!
Thanks much Johnny Black! Glad you appreciate the educational bits I through in this video. Cheers!
Your work is awesome, thanks for sharing!
=) Thanks once again!
I’m in Arlington and have fished every mud puddle around NOVA. In so doing I’ve discovered so many exotic looking panfish species. Your guide is gonna help me identify them, thank you!
Just found your channel today while looking for sunfish ID info. Awesome content! Thank you for your time and effort!
Thank you very much! Glad you found and appreciate the KNFS content. Cheers!
good stuff man! loved the video. That was a cool mission. I have picked up fishing for sunfish after many years off...had to relearn all the taxonomy - which led me to this guide...nailed it!
This video and your website got me super into lepmis identification. I think it also subconsciously made me want to switch from the conventional fishing world over to fly fishing. I couldn't tell you the last time I caught a fresh water fish on a spinning set up now. Thank you.
Doesn’t it look weird just a year later how reactionary healthy young people got to the “pandemic”. Loved the fishing and pics of the sunnies. Your spirit is infectious.
Yeah, it was definitely a unique change during that period. Thanks for watching, HelloThere!
Wow ! I am 73 years old and have not seen a Hornyhead Chub fish sense I was 6 or 7 years old fishing with my Grandmother,she cooked and we ate those little fish,filled with many y-shaped bones. Thank for bringing back fund memories.
Very cool, W Taylor! I can't say I've ever eaten a hornyhead chub. Now I'm curious...
As a fisherman I love videos like this. Wish you uploaded more often!
I much appreciate the encouragement Christopher! I'm just trying not to sacrifice quality with quantity. But I do enjoy making videos for other fishers. So do expect more to come!
I think I've found my new favorite fishing channel. Looking forward to some new videos.
Wow, thanks Richard! Well, you can be first to know I'll be releasing a detailed video on the redbreast sunfish next week. Good luck out there!
Great channel. Great videos. Fished the Great lakes and Niagara river for years. Got a bunch of Trophies. Now Microfishing for species count and I.D. is far more rewarding and challenging. A 180 Degree turn I suppose. Again, Awesome stuff you provide here Man. Sub forever.
Appreciate that, Tom. And yeah, I've been a bit similar. When I was younger it was always about chasing the biggest fish and now, I just have a greater appreciation for all species; catching 'em and learning about 'em. Cheers!
As someone who has been tasked by family to manage farm ponds on the family land in North/central Mississippi hill country, this was highly educational. We have 5 fishable stocked ponds, the largest being 5 acres and others much smaller that get low but never dry up. We just stocked a newly built one with F1 Tiger Bass, shellcrackers who seem to be getting massive with little help and coppernose bluegill. We are feeding them with high-quality protein pellets. Put the bluegill and shellcrackers in in March. Threadfin shad not long after and F1 Tiger bass about a month after that. It's early August and everything we put in there are like piranha. Extremely aggressive and hungry and they are growing big with the automatic feeder machine we keep maintained. Very happy with the results so far. Stocked in March, these fish are biting anything and they are growing fast. Enjoying the process
Ah, very cool. Pond management can be a demanding task! Those automatic feeders are a must for time-saving. Glad you shared your experience with us. And best of luck on the quality of fishing in those ponds.
You passed within twenty-five miles of me when you were in Ohio. Hope you had fun.
Ah, very cool! I'm glad Ohio was kind to me. Cheers Terry!
Incredible channel! Hopefully I run into you on the potomac soon!
Appreciate that! Alright, sounds good. Tight lines!
Your absolute dedication to sunfish is amazing. I love Green sunfish. I have a massive Green sunfish in my 175 aquarium. I fish them out of a small pond just full of pure black green sunnies.
That's a good-sized tank for a green to be in! And the black phenotype of the green sunfish is always a treat to catch for me. Cheers Sam.
@@KNFishingSmarts if you want to see some big green sunfish. I posted a few on my channel. And yes, they are indeed a nice fish to catch.
This was a really great adventure. I consider myself an avid fisherman, but I learned so many new things about lepomids. Great work- thank you for sharing!
Appreciate that Chris! Yeah, I've been fishing a long time but there's always something new for me to learn as well.
Beautiful fish
Yes they are. Great genus.
just found this video, glad some of my spots worked out! loved the vid!
your photo tank pics are also great, I really need to get a glass one myself!
I appreciate that! And again thank you so much for the great information. You're contribution has done so much to help make the guide and help people identifying these fishes. And I should apologize! I totally forgot to tell you that I had published this. So sorry about that.
And on your other comment, yeah I just found that glass with the flat panes is great. It's very hard to scratch and offers a much better clarity of the fish in photos. I've actually made a few smaller glass tanks of different sizes for the smaller fishes (darters, minnows, ect.); species in various genera I know you enjoy finding. It's actually not too hard nor expensive if you're a DIY kind of guy. Cheers and thanks again!
Ok so this was an awesome video! I very rarely watch videos (let alone hour long videos) but this was documented so well. Thank you for making!
Ever in SW Michigan and want to fish, hit me up 🤠👊🏽
Thanks much! I didn't know about your channel but I just checked out some of your content. I'll be sure to be checking out more! You have great passion and a great way of articulating your fishing experience. And yeah, I appreciate the offer! Most years I take a trip past that area. Maybe a future collaboration.
Living the Dream !!! As a fellow multi-species angler at some point I need to take on this quest as well! Catch every Sunfish and Bass here!
That's a great goal! Not an easy feat though especially getting all the bass species. Good luck though if you take that on!
@@KNFishingSmarts first gotta wait till the border opens up as I live in Canada 😆
Love the bumper music! Very 1978 of you.
I really enjoyed watching this. Sadly, in southern Ohio, I can only catch bluegill, redbreast, pumpkinseed, and greenies in the creeks. Thanks for sharing your adventure and fish on.
Much thanks Stephan! If you're in southern Ohio then there should be some longear nearby and possibly some orangespotted depending on your location. Appreciate you watching! Good luck catching sunfishes!
@@KNFishingSmarts What type of line do you use with your flies for sunfish? Mono or flouro and lb test?
Interesting channel! I began the quest to catch every fish species in the Thames river (ontario) last June. I'm up to 24 species I think! Just about to begin trapping minnow types...shiners, chubs, darters etc...
I hope you do videos on micro fishing!
Looks like you posted this a month ago but it got delayed in the comment filter! But yeah, congrats on 24 species already in the Thames. I may do some microfishing videos in the future.
Omg I added this question just as you were jumping down the wall and seconds later answered my question! @31:18 :: What telescoping rod are you using here?
It's got "Matt Hayes Adventure by Fladen" on it--never seen this one sold in the U.S. .
Congrats on what I would deem a fairly amazing feat. Finding and catching all of the Lepomids is tougher than many would think. Habitats and hybridization makes it tough in some places.
I appreciate that @blogan3845! Glad you took the time to watch this KNFS movie.
I got some bluegill and redbreast at the spot at 17:16 in Maryland today. Theres a little bit everything in that spot i guess
Ah, very cool! I don't believe I picked up any redbreast that day on that spot.
Great video and very interesting. enjoyed the content
Thanks Gulf Guy. Glad you enjoyed this one!
Very informative
Yeah, I tried to make this one with some information as well. Thanks!
I have a bluegill, redspotted, warmouth, and rock bass all in a 120 gallon aquarium. Great video!
Thanks. I like that assortment of species. They all get along in there?
@@KNFishingSmarts its complicated but when the bluegill was small it got bullied by the sunfish. Now that the bluegill is grown up it has a grudge with the sunfish. They don’t get along but have enough room to avoid eachother. The rock bass and warmouth are just there to eat anything lol, no problems there haha
next time you need to rent boats on bigger lakes during the spawn and then try to catch some big ones of each. nice skipjack those things are so much fun to catch at the dam. i use em for bait for commercial catfishing and you can get em 4-5 at a time with a bunch of jigs tied on with white curly tails. they are like mini tarpons. bluegills are fun because they dont take a long time to bite if they are around.
Your passion is awesome!
Yeah, it keeps me going! Thanks for watching WheneverAdventures.
Love it man very informative
Appreciate that Mike! Cheers!
I fish Duck Creek all the time. Sometimes it can be very tough to fish with all the vegetation. Glad you got to check some species off your list. Thanks for the video and all your research. The guide is informative.
Thanks Handsome Stranger! I really should have checked the south area of Duck Creek first. I planned that one poorly. There were much better waters on that southern shoreline. What species do you go for at Duck Creek? I saw some chunky grass pickerel in there.
Awesome man , I was in that area today sampling. Got 11 species and a wild card fish im gonna have to send you a picture. I'm thinking it's a pumpkinseed × bluegill
Nice! 11 species in one day is not bad at all. All on rod and reel? Also, you should get on iNaturalist to post some of your fish observations. There are a few other experts on lepomid IDs that also enjoy taking a look at peoples' hybrids for ID. And thanks for watching!
Great video!! Please make more sunfish videos!
Ty, ty, Slowjamcdub! I'm sure more sunfish videos are in the future here at KNFS.
Very interesting video!
Appreciate that, Reavis. Cheers!
thanks for all the awesome content koaw. i think your voice sounds like jeff tweedy from wilco. super relaxing listening to ur vids :).
Appreciate that, Underhawk26. I've never heard I sound like Jeff Tweedy before. Interesting!
Ive just recently gotten into the realm of lepomids and am thoroughly impressed by your knowledge AND enthusiasm for the species. Most have one or the other but u have both and very well put together videos and guides. Ive looked over your guide and didnt see much in the category of juvenile identification. Is this just impractical or did i miss this in thr guide?
Very kind of you to say that Chase. And yes, you bring up a great point about the juveniles. I will work to add more information on juveniles onto the individual species pages in the coming months.
But...basically most lepomids smaller than 1 inch - 1.5 inches are very hard to tell apart because the color is bland, the patterns are so similar, and the opercular flaps aren't developed. So yes, as you said its sort of impractical. However, I should expand on that and make it clear. Once they get a bit bigger then there are enough features to examine to make the ID. Thanks again for bringing this to my attention. Cheers!
Nice job. Where can I get a chart?
Thanks Rick. As of now, I'm waiting to make a physical chart (field guide cheat sheet). The longear species complex may or may not be divided into multiple species. As of now, www.koaw.org/sunfishes is the digital resource for checking out all the species.
we know such little about the world we live in and take it for granted we know it all. its all there in the details if you care enough to look. i am a fishkeeper who has never taken the time to look at the native fish surrounding me. i am astounded at that realization.
Deep words, bobs5596! I too often get those epiphany moments where we know so little about all the natural life around us. Cheers!
Thanks for posting this I've been looking for a good photo list of all the species of sunfish. When I Google photo list for them they're normally only 7 listed on it
You're welcome! Yeah, a normal search on most search engines creates a cluster of information. Glad to be able to help there.
I did not know that there were some many different species of sun fish.Thanks
Thanks for watching, Jerry!
A great way for you to study them maybe build a huge tank and put all of the species in there and see how they breed and what not. I bet you could get a lot of data
Definitely Kaleb, and that's what many fisheries biologists do to study 'em. However, I don't have a lab right now and I travel too often to keep tanks at my place. One day I might explore creating some different hybrid types. Cheers!
I live in Findlay Ohio, I’ve been misidentifying northern sunfish for longear, such a great video and very informative.
Thanks Ben. I was in your neck-of-the-woods for a bit! And yeah, it's easy to confuse them as they are so similar. In fact, the northern sunfish still has such similar DNA to longear sunfish that it's really only the slight morphological/behavioral features that separated the two species.
Interesting, thanks for the help - can’t wait for the next vid!
I suggest if you ever get a chance to fish in Lee County in South West Virginia there is a place called keokee lake it's a pond that's about 4 acres and there are 2 pound bluegill in there and very big bass
How generous of you to share the spot! I might just have to venture over there one day. Thanks Timothy!
Fliers are awesome. They look like crappie to me. I had never heard of them or encountered them before your videos. I'd like to target them, hope they are down here in TX.
I agree. The flier is a cool looking species. If you're targeting them in Texas then you have to hit up the eastern border. They are up and down the Sabine River and those drainages.
Warmouth are my absolute favorite sunfish
Warmouth are pretty awesome. Good fighters too.
Great video buddy. New subscriber
Awesome thank you!
Do you have any ideas for bait to catch an orange spotted sunfish? I have literally been fishing every day for the last three weeks in a variety of turbid large rivers and have just about caught everything else. Thanks for the inspiration.
Hey Stephen. Yeah, I actually just caught a whole bunch of orangespotted sunfish in Ohio last week. All I was doing was using a size 18 hook (tiny!) with itty-bitty chunks of cut worm. Find a brush pile in the shallows, vegetation along the shore, or if you're lucky, you'll see some males sitting on/around nests in about 6-12 inches of water. Then just yo-yo the bait around slowly in those areas. If ya want bigger orangespotted, a size 10 hook works fine...it just minimizes the odds of catching 'em. Cheers and good luck.
Is that Flyer related to a Crappie?
This is great video.. I’m currently on a semi official species competition . Stuck on pumpkin seed. I’m central va.
Thanks and good luck with the competition. I've had good success nabbing pumpkinseed lately with paddle-tail soft plastics on weighted jig heads. 1/16 - 1/32 weighted head with a size 6 hook.
What about Texas Black Banded Sunfish or Rio Grande Sunfish, or Sacremento Perch?
Black Banded are leptomids I'm sure, Rio Grandes IDK, and Sacremento Perch the only Sunfish native west of the Rockies I know is not a leptomid.
Hey Steven. I was only targeting species in the genus Lepomis. Sacremento perch is in the genus Archoplites (same family as Lepomis) as you've addressed below. The Rio Grande cichlid (sunfish) is in an entirely different family than Lepomis. There are only 13 lepomids as of now and each does have many different common names depending on the region. I'm not quite sure which you might be referencing with the black banded.
Did any of those states require a fishing license just to ID fish ? Curious.
What waterway did you catch the Dollars in NC?
One dollar was captured in the Lumber River in Lumberton just near the highway. And I can't reveal publicly the exact location of the first batch due to my promise to the angler who guided me there. However, I can tell you that nearby Aumun Lake and the Weymouth Woods-Sandhill Nature Preserve have dollar in the nearby waters.
Have pictures of sunfish that don't look like any of documented varieties shown by this gentlemen. Would like to send photos of them but don't know how.
Maybe go on to his more recent videos and try commenting, or see if he has an Instagram
Hey Kurt, you can fill out a form on my contact page on my website and I'll get back to you. I use this method to limit the amount of spam I receive. www.koaw.org/contact
30:40 that black crappie looks similar to a white crappie.
Hmm...could be. I'll have to double check. Plus with hybrids crappies get so tricky. Thanks for noticing!
Hey where do I stand my best chance at catching longear sunfish here around Jackson Mississippi. It's the only species remaining of the sunfish, native to Mississippi that I have yet to positively catch. Much thanks to anyone who can help.
This will give a quick glimpse of local longear: www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=33.00298117828051&nelng=-87.78706666330436&place_id=any&subview=map&swlat=31.72707616247401&swlng=-91.58009644846061&taxon_id=58635
Just found your channel and love your vids. But one question: Were you wearing a mask while alone in a room?
Thanks and indeed I was. I made an agreement with my family to be overly cautious during a time where little research existed on the spreading of COVID-19. I never contracted the virus and I wouldn't have done it another way to keep my friend and family members safe.
@@KNFishingSmarts Thanks for the response. This was a great video and I enjoyed watching it. But the virtue signaling was completely unnecessary. The video was great. It did not need the extra content. The shot with all the cleaning supplies was just laughable. I don't even know what to say about wearing a mask alone. There's really no words to describe how stupid that is. Enjoy your fear, my friend. I will continue to enjoy your non virtue signaling content. I'm a fan.
Hey I’m late to comment but do you think it would be possible to keep all 13 common sunfish species in the same fish tank, and how big of a fish tank you think to keep them all in. I think a 125 gallon or 300 gallon would be around the right size. Comment me back what you think thank.😊
That is quite an ambitious task to get all 13 in the same tank! I really don't know if that is possible. Theoretically, they could all probably survive under the same pH, temperature and water conditions. But you'd have to supply the different habitat preferences for each one. Caves for warmouth and green. Plenty of vegetation for bantam and orangespotted.
Really, it'd be when the mating rituals kicked in that the species would become very aggressive and harmful towards each other. The bigger the tank the better--125 is fairly big. But perhaps not even big enough.
I just don't know Kam! Sorry.
@@KNFishingSmarts thanks for replying, I think the different habitats wouldn’t be problem for me, cause just like you, I research a lot. And I’m keeping a lot of fish to learn the sunfish behaviors. And already have 4 species in one fish tank but it’s only a 55 gallon fish tank. Yet again thanks for replying
@@22christykingif you keep them longer than a few hours, what did you feed them ?
Awesome work bro. You sound like johnny depp lol
Haha, appreciate that! I'm not sure I've ever heard that I'm a Johnny Depp sound-alike. Interesting...
Dude, please don't tell me you drive around N. America, camping and catching tasty panfish, and you don't carry an iron skillet and a jar of bacon grease!
Haha...well C.J., I left the cast iron skillet and grease at home for a couple reasons. 1) It's not really proper to eat specimens that go towards the research. 2) I could only lug around so much field gear!
But now my skillet is back on the job! Cheers man!
Oh god the china virus days.
Another video that claims to show "all the common sunfish" but leaves smallmouth, largemouth, and rock bass out of the list. Say panfish, if youre unfamiliar with sunfish.
Because he's going by the Latin "common sunfish". Bass are not part of Lepomids. Why comment if you're not familiar with the topic ? It would be impossible to try and do it using nicknames across all parts of the world. That's why Latin is used as the common lang in Scientific Taxonomy.
Double mask????? Lol cmon...
I believe that's terribly rude to give me flack about wanting to protect those I love. Not appreciated texas boi.
@@KNFishingSmarts Texas republicans are the biggest snowflakes, offended by everything!