Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations An odd fish....what could it be ?

With a large mouth compared to the body size it sounds like it would have been either Warmouth or GSF. Both of these species have a mouth that is much more bass-like than sunfish like. GSF do have pronounced yellow fin outlines that runs along the outer edge of greenish fins. The iridicent green markings that radiate back from the mouth are usually easy to spot on a GSF. The checkboard patterns sounds more like a warmouth - from the photos that I have seen of WM it seems like you could describe their markings as checkboard. GSF appear kinda bluegreen overall, where it seems to me (once again only from photos) warmouth seem more yellow overall. I'm thinking you have warmouth.

GW is our resident WM expert. Let's see what he has to say.