Sunfish
Personal memory by David Link
I remember trudging down to the Skunk River in central Iowa with my boyhood friend Bill Lambert and fishing for sunfish. One particular variety, the Pumpkinseed, was usually among the catch and is well remembered for its brilliant coloring. Somewhere around 8th or 9th grade we stopped catching sunfish of any variety and started catching carp. Somewhere upstream someone must have hated sunfish.
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