I made a sunfish guide! + NEW CHANNEL IS OUT!

For you, special video of each beautiful species of common sunfishes (at the end). Let me fill you in on what I've been up to.

Sunfish (Lepomis) field guide / identification guide. All species (As of 2020): Bluegill, dollar sunfish, longear sunfish, northern sunfish, pumpkinseed, orangespotted sunfish, redspotted sunfish, spotted sunfish, warmouth, green sunfish, redbreast sunfish, bantam sunfish, and redear sunfish.

New Channel:
(Electronic field guide of course.)

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0:00 Amusing Intro
0:59 The Quest
2:16 If you know me...
4:09 Video of each species

[laurasmith]

What a resourceful guide! Thank you so much for making this for everyone!

[mr.dads-animalhouse]

Nice work! I love identification videos.

[TheOutdoorsGuy]

Hey man I’m glad to see u doing good I’m definitely gonna check out your guide

[BioBush]

I'm 45 seconds into this video and had to pause to like the video, wish I could double subscribe, and tell you how great the first 45 seconds are.

EDIT: Okay, 3 minutes in and it turns out I CAN double subscribe! So that was a nice turn of events. Also I thought that guide was going to be $19.95 and it's FREE. This video keeps getting better.

EDIT: 5:50 That is a very cool looking fish! Thank you for this gift of a video.

[sarahlarson]

Those sunfishes truly are lovely! It must be amazing to swim with them when the sun is bright. Glad to learn about the new channel. I don’t fish. However, thanks to being educated by Koaw Nature, I’ve developed a keen interest in fishes! So count me in!

[knyghtryder]

Sunfish are super dope yo, keep it up, iconic north amero style

[susicolin]

Thank you very much. I started kayaking and fishing when I retired 6 years ago. I was an art history prof., which is why I have a keen, well trained eye for detail and color. However, the sunfish identification proved to be above over 30 years of visual investigation. There I am, sitting in my drifting kayak, squiggly fish dangling from the rod in one hand, the New Jersey Fishing and Wildlife brochure in the other, completely dumbfounded. Was that !&@@/!! thing a protected sunfish, an invasive one I must destroy (in my case eat), or a permitted one I could throw back in or keep if I please?
I am going through your guide marking the various species and hybrids in Paint in my own way again (That is how I commit them to memory), to get order in the sunfish chaos.
I am still not sure what to do with the green/warmouth sunfish hybrids that I catch. I don't dare ask NJ Dept of Fishing for clarification. I do know (I think!-??-!) what the protected sunfish in NJ look like. Should a ranger inspect my catch one of these days, let them sort through that. After all I am just a little old lady who goes fishing with her pearl necklace on.

[larrytischler]

And there still isn't. You need to publish a soft back field guide we can take afield, complete with range, sizes, photos of both sexes in spawning and eclipse colors as well as bleached out coloration for turbid waters and clear water patterns. And just 8 little eastern state. And I live in Texas. Do the crappie and bass, spotted, etc too.! Even separately.

If you can write in an address I would be very happy to contribute. I don't put my account number(s) on the internet anymore for obvious reasons.