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so my girlfriend and I went fishing Mantua yesterday and had a grand time. We caught some bluegills, perch, small bass, and some kind of sunfish. I'm not sure what kind of sunfish it was, because it had kind of a silvery color, and there were black spots on the ends of its' gill plates. I wanted to look really smart for my girlfriend, so I said it was a longear sunfish, but I just wanted to see if anyone knew what it really was[fishin]
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Do you have a picture? The only other known sunfish in Mantua is a green sunfish. Have you seen a green sunfish?
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A lot of blue gill have a black dot at the end of their gill plate but did it look like any of these:
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It was probably the Green Sunfish. We caught a few of them this weekend out of that pond. Did the tips of the fins show any 'orange color'? Bluish streaks along the face face? Larger mouth than a regular Bluegill?
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I think that that one picture of the silverish bluegill is what I caught. Thanks for the help!
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Both of the last two fish are Green sunfish, the first one is a longear bluegill.
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