AZ Fish Finder - Pumpkinseed Details

Name:

Pumpkinseed

Water Type:

freshwater

Latin Name:

Lepomis gibbosus

Common Names:

Sunfish, yellow sunfish, pumpkinseed sunfish, common sunfish, round sunfish, bream, and sun bass

Ideal Water Temp:

75-89 degrees

World Record:

1lb. 6 oz.

Description:

These have less variation then then some of the other sunfish. The body is greenish and marked with wavy lines and orange spots. The black gill flap is also tipped with red and bright blue lines extend from the mouth across the gill cover. Typically they are found in 4-10 ounces with 1 pound extremely rare.

Best places to fish them are lakes and ponds, or slow streams. They tend to hug the shore line and hang around various structure there like ramps, docks weed beds.

The best fishing usually comes from small worms, grups or insects fished on the bottom or a float. Flies will get some attraction as will small spinners. -Blackstone Carp

Part of the sunfish family. Beautiful colors and really do give a fight even if they are not very big. They are spotted vertically with dusk orange dots. The coloration near their eyes and face are are light blue.

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Last comment was on 02/21/12 08:22 PM by ras0326

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June Pumpkinseed
Added by jsguitar

# of Comments: 1

Tree down
Added by scoobystas from the trip entitled Post Irene...tough fishing this AM.

7"~ P-Seed
Large P-Seed from the north end of my pond.
Added by shawn123

# of Comments: 3

Pumkinseed
I caught this thing in my pond, it is about 7" long
Added by shawn123

# of Comments: 1

Darn sunnies...
In the middle of the day, the Uncle and I went down tho the brook that feeds into the lake in hope of catching some Brook Trout. Instead all we caught were some pumpkinseeds.
Added by nefisherman92 from the trip entitled First Fishing Trip of June

Avg. Rating: 5
# of Ratings: 1

# of Comments: 1

pumpkin2
Rogers street bridge area
Added by dowfisher from the trip entitled Merrimack Pumpkinseed

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davetroy on 08/17/10 07:57 PM