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So what species of sunfish you guys catch in New Jersey?

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Bluegill, pumpkinseed, redbreast and green. Green sunfish are a cool fish to put in a fish tank. I have one in mine right now. They have big mouths and will take down small shiners, kind of like oscars. When I worked for the DEP up in CT we had a green/pumpkin hybrid in a tank that was 12oz and it would take down 5" shiners...thing was a badass!

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Grew up on lake Musconetcong, waaay back in the Port Morris section we usta catch what we called Rock Bass. Kinda looked like a cross between a smallmouth and a sunfish with a red eye...sound familiar? never really knew what they were but they were a awful lot of fun to catch.

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Rock bass are also known as goggle-eye, I think. I've caught a few over the years, they are fun.

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I caught 106 warmouth in a small pond in Central NJ this year including 22 in one day. The longest that I ever caught there was 10". I applied for a NJ Skillful Angler Catch and Release Sunfish Award but was rejected because the biologist said that my fish was a warmouth, not a green sunfish. NJ Fresh Water Fish Biologists are very good. I'll try to post a pic of my catch of warmouth and a green sunfish. http://s865.photobucket.com/user/NJ2...ml?sort=3&o=24

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:eek: yeah, those are definitely not like anything that belongs here... some bucket biologist must have introduced them to that pond. :mad:

catch and keep as many as you can before they spread to other waters. what does that pond drain into?

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just looked on a map where that is and i guess it's not that surprising, there are all sorts of invasives in the Big D these days... sigh...

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Sure would be nice if the snakeheads and flathead catfish would eat those.