If the top photo was in better focus and taken closer to the fish you could see the mouth of the sunfish was noticeably smaller than the mouth of a crappie of the same size. The mouth mandible of crappie reaches the middle of the fish's eye as shown in the pic by Snipe. A BG mouth mandible ends before the front of the eye. Also the vertical bands on the body are correct features of a BG that size.


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