Come'on down Kentucky way where scenes like this is common:
Most creeks around here sport a large array of sunfish, bass, cats and of course, carp (which are spawnning at the moment).
There are a lot of hand-sized bluegill and other sunfish like these:
See you on the water - Mike
mudd, may I suggest(as I am a native Texan) that you check out Caddo Lake. Full of trees, and subsequently, crappie.
BIG crappie too.
Regarding overpopulation as was stated earlier, yes, this happens and it is usually the reason that you may catch mostly 5 or 6 inch sunfish.
I catch sunfish averaging 7 inches long, not much bigger than 8 or 9 inches, in a tiny pond formed by a little creek/ravine that floods out every time it rains.
It is very overpopulated, and as a result the big fish are few and far between. I still enjoy it, but there are a lot of tiny panfish.
I've been planning for some time, as I am the only one fishing this pond really, to cull out the smaller fish to try and develop a population of bigger fish for next summer.
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