Please Help Identify PA Native Fish

[Nagy]

My friend has this fish we caught in our minnow trap what is it we believe it's a bluegill pan fish species

 

[pip walters]

Definitely a Lepomis spp. Not showing full colouration, so hard to be sure. My best guess would be L. punctatus

may actually be a young bluegill though

 

[nshepler]

If I'm not mistaken that's a red ear sunfish.

 

[nshepler]

It just hasn't developed the red ear yet, but the red eye is distinctive to the red ear sunfish.