green sunfish
noun
: a sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus) of the Great Lakes region and southwestward to the Rio Grande that is largely greenish above with a blue spot on many of the scales
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Rockin River Ranch State Park fishing Anglers can try their luck fishing for largemouth and smallmouth bass, redeye, channel and flathead catfish, bluegill and green sunfish.
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Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
The two often occur adjacently, but in terms of angler access, the green sunfish tends to spend more time deeper, while the bluegill may feed from inches of shoreline water out to deep weed beds in 12 feet or more.
—David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
Officials already were battling invasive species below the dam, suppressing green sunfish that apparently swept through the turbines, and rewarding anglers with a bounty on brown trout.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2022
But an emerging threat becomes evident in early June as Friesen hauls up minnow traps and gillnets packed with carp, gizzard shad, green sunfish and, ominously, three smallmouth bass.
—CBS News, 15 June 2022
The waterway has a lot of diversity and lower numbers of tolerant fish such as carp, bullheads and green sunfish, and greater numbers of intolerant species such as the stonecat madtom and mimic and roseface shiners.
—Peter Krouse, cleveland, 13 May 2022
Walleye, Northern pike, largemouth bass, channel catfish, fathead minnows, green sunfish and bluegill are found in the lake.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
The sunfish were all green sunfish, which is a more aggressive species that has a tendency to make its way into all sorts of water bodies.
—Brian Lisik, cleveland.com, 9 July 2019
My first cast produced a green sunfish — a relatively rare catch in Idaho.
—Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 2 Apr. 2018
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Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
The two often occur adjacently, but in terms of angler access, the green sunfish tends to spend more time deeper, while the bluegill may feed from inches of shoreline water out to deep weed beds in 12 feet or more.
—David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
Officials already were battling invasive species below the dam, suppressing green sunfish that apparently swept through the turbines, and rewarding anglers with a bounty on brown trout.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2022
But an emerging threat becomes evident in early June as Friesen hauls up minnow traps and gillnets packed with carp, gizzard shad, green sunfish and, ominously, three smallmouth bass.
—CBS News, 15 June 2022
The waterway has a lot of diversity and lower numbers of tolerant fish such as carp, bullheads and green sunfish, and greater numbers of intolerant species such as the stonecat madtom and mimic and roseface shiners.
—Peter Krouse, cleveland, 13 May 2022
Walleye, Northern pike, largemouth bass, channel catfish, fathead minnows, green sunfish and bluegill are found in the lake.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
The sunfish were all green sunfish, which is a more aggressive species that has a tendency to make its way into all sorts of water bodies.
—Brian Lisik, cleveland.com, 9 July 2019
My first cast produced a green sunfish — a relatively rare catch in Idaho.
—Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 2 Apr. 2018
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“Green sunfish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/green%20sunfish. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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