re: Panfish ID chart. (Let's get ready to rumble edition)

Easiest way to tell them apart is to put a redworm (pink wiggler) on the hook and throw it out. if you use a bobber and you catch one it ain't a shellcracker. However if you take the float off and tightline to the bottom and get bit it's a shellcracker.

You see it on charts and it's all over the net, so some people call Pumpkinseeds Shellcrackers. It's not debatable. Hell, we call crappie white perch. They are obviously not perch, nor are they a sack of milk.

Never saw a flier until I moved to VA. They're thick up here.

I’ve heard someone call them a St. John perch once. Don’t know if that’s something common.

Derp-a derp

So those fish I think are goggle eye but have no meat are green sunfish.

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Those are the invasive Rio Grande Cichlids correct?

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Correct. Prevalent in the canals and bayous in New Orleans.

From Texas Parks and wildlife,

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The Rio Grande cichlid is a fine fighter, and easily caught. It is considered good table fare. The Texas state record was caught at Lake Dunlap in 2011 and weighed 2.02 pounds.

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Those redbreast can get YUGE

Goggle Eye are not Warmouth. True Warmouth identification only has Warmouths reaching a maximum of a few inches in length. Goggle Eye are Green Sunfish which have a substantially bigger body. I think the confusion comes with 1) the name, as Goggle Eye do indeed have very large mouths and 2) Most pictures of Green Sunfish do a poor job representing the color patterns seen in South Louisiana.