Help Id'ing this Sunfish?

[u/NJeep]

What species is this? Also, is that pink on the underside normal, or a sign of some problem? This was caught in central NY in August.

[u/Icy-Confidence-1849]

I believe it's just a Bluegill.

I know a lot of people say this as a generic term, but I do believe that this is truly the species.

[u/ayo4playdoh → u/Icy-Confidence-1849]

Agreed, regular bluegill.

[u/OverlordFish → u/Icy-Confidence-1849]

It's definitely a bluegill. The people that claim that it is a generic term are just being ignorant of the glorious diversity of the sunfishes.

[u/Duality_P]

Bluegill

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[u/PsychologicalFox5232 → u/[deleted]]

No Gary was eaten by a musky last week. Thats Barry Blue.

[u/42brie_flutterbye → u/[deleted]]

Are you sure? I can never tell Frank from Harvey unless they're standing next to each other.

[u/Venerable_dread]

One of these little shits attacked me when I was a kid and swimming in a lake up in Maine.

[u/JimFqnLahey]

likely what we around MN call a pumpkin seed and or hybrid sunny / bluegill

someone with more info will chime in but thats the back yard guess

[u/Healthy_Part_7184 → u/JimFqnLahey]

It's definitely not a pumpkinseed sunny

[u/Rom_Tiddle → u/JimFqnLahey]

Pumpkin seeds tend to have a lot more blue color and they have a red section on their blue gill. They are the prettiest sunfish imo.

[u/Fun_Break_3231]

Carl