Bluegill fish

The bluegill is one of the most abundant and popular panfishes in North America. This deep-bodied, slab-sided sunfish sports a black “ear flap” extending from the edge of its gill cover.

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Bluegill are one of the most common species in Ohio and can be found in almost every body of water throughout the state.

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If you love to cook freshwater fish, you may have noticed bluegill and sunfish mentioned in various recipes, sometimes even interchangeably. But, they don’t always stand for the same thing. The main difference between bluegill and sunfish is that sunfish is a family of 34 fish species, whereas bluegill is specifically a type of sunfish....Read More

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The Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) is a species of freshwater fish sometimes referred to as "bream", "brim", "sunny", "copper nose", or incorrectly "perch". It is a member of the sunfish family Centrarchidae of the order Perciformes. It is native to North America and lives in streams, rivers, lakes, and ponds. It is commonly found east of the Rockies. It usually hides around, and inside, old tree stumps and other underwater structures. It can live in either deep or very shallow water, and…