Seems like activity is slowing down again, so I thought I'd start a new "What did you catch lately?" thread in hopes of getting folks to share.

To start things out, here are a few sunfish from recent outings in Louisiana:

Lepomis solis (one of the recently described Longear species)


Dollar Sunfish


Flier


I also had the opportunity to take two friends from out of town on a sunfish hunt last Thursday. It was miserably hot (heat index over 100), and I was too distracted playing guide to take many photos, but they managed to catch a combined 8 species of sunfish over three hours.

So what have you caught lately?

Chris

That's quite a list, Chris! Thanks for the report.
I was down in the Berkshires, MA last week and milked a three day non resident license for all it was worth. First afternoon out, on the Cheshire Reservoir (hoosic river) I caught 6 species: chain pickerel, largemouth bass, pumpkinseed, bluegill, black crappie and rock bass. The latter two were new additions to my 'caught on the fly' list. Its a very shallow reservoir but I was the only wading fisherman I saw, and also the only fly fisherman. There were dozens of spin fishermen, catching the odd fish from shore or boat. I was able to access some areas others could not, by wading along the shoreline. I also suspect that the fish in this heavily fished water rarely, if ever, see flies. I caught fish fairly continuously, and on the last afternoon, when the wind dropped, I caught probably 30 large, fat bluegills up to 9" long on a #10 floating buck bug over an hour and a half. Otherwise, I was mostly fishing a tiny beadhead wooly bugger in black and orange (#14). Longest fish was a chain pickerel about 16", heaviest was a 13" largemouth, but that was all good fun on a light rod. We lack such diversity as well as such large sunfish here at home.

Heat index has been in the triple digits lately, so I haven't been out much. Got a snook this morning off the beach, but that's not UL. They were few and far between. And spooky.

Freshwater has been frustrating! For some reason, I keep losing almost everything! I don't know what's going on. Before it became too hot to do anything, I was hooking fish. And promptly losing fish. The highlight was losing a nice bass, casting back to the same spot and hooking up with a conciliatory fish...


Had a really good day fishing for the exotics down south. But that was on an 8.