Whats your favorite species of panfish?

[mattscru]

Mines the longeared sunfish. I think they have to be best looking freshwater fish in north america! [inline longear_sunfish.jpg]
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[tubeN2]

I would have to go with the Blue Gills. They are probably the best eating of all the Panfish.[cool]
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[mattscru]

I agree on eating them tube, but crappie and gills are really close when it comes to eating. I like the longeared because of the color and markings. I used to have one in my aquarium for years I caught off a dry fly.
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[straight6pwr]

i love the look of crappies. as far as eating quality, ive never actually eaten a panfish unless you consider perch a panfish.
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[Kraizee_Skot]

[font "Lucida Console"][#ff4040]I think crappies look pretty cool...and they are sure yummy also![cool][/#ff4040][/font]
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[tubeN2]

We used to catch tons of Crappie when I lived in UT. There are so many recipes for them. I could never get tired of eating Panfish.



Hey Krazie Scott! If it fits nicely in your pan, then it is a panfish. lol[cool]
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[Bluegillman]

For eatting it is the Bluegills. For looks again it is the Bluegills! For the joy of fishing and catching them, it is the Bluegills!![][]
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[birddogwi]

My personal favorite is the Crappie.
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[mattscru]

For fishing, theirs nothing more fun than a school of slabs. Eating, crappie are the best, close second is the bluegill and shellcracker. But for beauty who can disagree with the longeared sunfish? [inline longear_sunfish.jpg]
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[mattscru]

Thats a good question. Who considers yellow perch a panfish? They are in the walleye family but I think as fishing goes they'd fall more into the panfish group. Tell me what yall think!

Matt
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[straight6pwr]

i'd say panfish based on a couple of things. 1)size 2)eating habits, they are less picky about bait and presentation, like other pan fish versus walleye. 3)they hang out in schools with other panfish
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[Tarpon4me]

Crappie all the way! Wanna know why? It's simple:

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Crappie are the largest species of panfish and have huge balls. Not to mention there aren't too many species of fish period that have the sweet flakey meat that crappie do. There's nothing "crappy" about a crappie. []

A close second would be a warmouth. They are equally as big and pretty darn tastey themselves. The world record holding at just under 3 pounds from Florida.
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[mattscru]

I love to eat warmouth too, but they seem to have more head than meat. One of my crappie holes has alot of warmouth too and sometimes a big bull gill will slip in, I'll eat all of them. My wife actually thinks the warmouth taste better than the crappie. All panfish taste good in my opinion.
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[bassngal]

[cool] I'm with you, I think that all panfish taste pretty good!! If I had to rate them: 1: crappie
2: bluegill
3: redear bream
4: chinquipin
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[Kraizee_Skot]

[font "Lucida Console"][#ff4040]Another thing to note about the crappies is that sometimes they are alot harder to catch than most fish IMHO. They are soo finnicky that it's hard to determine what they want![/#ff4040][/font]
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[idahopanfish]

Right now for me I would have to say Bluegill as they are the only ones cooperating[crazy]
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[mattscru]

Redear is the same as a shellcracker down here, but whats a chinquipin? Sorry, just never heard of them.
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[bassngal]

[] CHINQUIPIN ARE IN THE SUN-PERCH FAMILY. THEY CAN GET UP TO AND OVER 2 LBS. A GUY CAUGHT ONE HERE AT CANEY LAKE 2LBS. 2.25 OZ.
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[mattscru]

They look like this? Its the same thing as a redear or a shellcracker, just differant names everywhere you go! [inline shellcracker.jpg]
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[mattscru]

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At the bottom it has it names as the redear, shellcracker, and chinquipin. I learn something new almost every day, a new name for a fish. Now I just got to learn how to pronouce it []
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