Do you love big bluegill?

Beautiful 8 Inch plus Flier out of Buckskin Creek.

Great Flier!

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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on October 23, 2011 at 7:14am: Thanks all! I'm glad evryone has enjoyed this fish since its a relative unknown fish out of the 18 species of sunfish. The 1 pound 4 ounce world record is shared in North Carolina's Little River in Spring Lake and Lowndes County, Georgia. The genus name is Centrachus and the species name is macropterus. It gets its name from the sharp spines on the anal fin. My personal best is 1 pound 1 ounce so I became interested being close to a world record!

Comment by Leo Nguyen on October 22, 2011 at 11:41pm: WOW! So, that's where Jeff got his photo from for the FishingNetwork forum. Beautiful! I thought he caught out of Lake Perris. Looks like these guys are crossing their genetics over to make beautiful hybrids.

Comment by dick tabbert on October 22, 2011 at 11:20pm: Wow this is something I've never seen before. At first I thought it was a crappie. Now it looks like a bluegill with crappie fins. What a strange looking fish it looks like a bluegill that crossed with a crappie if that's possible. At any rate thanks for the picture it is a very unique fish.

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on October 22, 2011 at 6:56pm: That is a beeeyootiful fish. Ive never heard of a flier, what is it specifically, like genus, etc.?

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on October 22, 2011 at 5:03pm: I snapped this shot right out of the water. You give taxidermist Tim a picture like this and I'm sure the fish would look alive! I plan on getting a big Flier mounted for sure!

Comment by Dwayne Denison on October 22, 2011 at 4:57pm: Thanks for the info Jeff. They are a beautiful fish, I just love the colors. I need to come and catch me a big one of these. would look great on wall.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on October 22, 2011 at 4:43pm: Its a gamefish that counts toward your total sunfish creel in North Carolina. They are easily mistaken for Crappie when they get a little bit bigger like this one. They become dominant in locations that have low oxygen and high PH factors like swamps/marshes . The only places I have caught Fliers is Coastal Virginia and North Carolina. The bigger ones are pretty thick like a Crappie so the filets are nice!

Comment by Dwayne Denison on October 22, 2011 at 3:59pm: I have never seen one of these. great looking fish. What is a flier?

Comment by dink dailey on October 22, 2011 at 2:56pm: nice clean looking fish, our water temp here is still in the 70's and the temp is in the 90's only caught 8 on thursday only 4 would have been big enough to keep.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on October 22, 2011 at 2:30pm: There's some nice Fliers in coastal North Carolina and Virginia. I catch quite a few in the flooded cypress swamps that I fish. These two fish today are citations in North Carolina. A Flier of 6 ounces and/or 8 inches long is cosidered a sunfish trophy. I'm barely hanging on with water temperatures today of 58 degrees!