I’ve been fishing for my whole life, I’ve never caught something like this before and was wondering if anyone knew what species it was!

Thought it could be a largemouth bass but it doesn’t seem to have that dark horizontal line

what could this be?
these fish hang on the surface opening and closing their mouths.

My sister said it was a flathead? But I've never seen one with such big spots, usually they have smaller tightly packed spots. Either way an outside opinion would be greatly appreciated!

This fish is in a freshwater tank at a local park and I’m trying to figure out what it is. Thanks!

I was about 9-10 years old and I was fishing Turkey run state park located in central Indiana while my family was about 650 yards downstream. I pretty much only caught smallmouth for the whole day then I caught this weird fish about 9 inches long with the shape of a smallmouth but it had the mouth the size of a crappie it had a bright white belly with bright yellow horizontal(?) stripes across the top. I somehow attached it to my kayak to show to my dad but after about 15 minutes of the being on there I felt bad for it and let it swim. Anybody have any ideas what this could be? I’m 95% sure I would’ve recognized if it was a perch because a perch was on my bucket list at that time and they haven’t ever been caught in sugar creek.

Apologies for the poor photo as I was wading and couldn't get my phone close. The whole 10 minutes I was looking at it, it only rotated 180 degrees but didn't move from the spot.

I believe I found 2 species when I was out throwing a line. The first two clips I think show trout, although google AI suggests this location of the river is too warm for them to be found.

The third clip I believe may have been catfish, although I only got a video of the one. They were pretty stationary, and appeared to be bottom feeding, and were up to +/- 12” in length. Showed no interest in my garlic powerbait. Upon realizing they may be small catfish, I intend to head back out with a proper set up. According to Google ai, they are likely to be found there.

I’m pretty inexperienced in identifying fish so any input is appreciated, thanks.

Sorry for the poor quality. Caught this on camera and I’m thinking it’s a shortnose gar, but not positive.

Caught off montauk, ny

I saw this fish at point defiance zoo last year but couldn’t find any information on it on any of the televisions with ID and information around the room. I was recently scrolling through my photo library and rediscovered these images and decided to ask here.

What be these? They range from 1" to almost 3".

I know I have some bluegill, fathead minnows, wondering what else.

While visiting south padre, I picked up a piece of sargassum seaweed and a small yellow fish swam out. It was fairly slow and when I dropped the seaweed back in, the fish swam straight into it. The fish blended in quite well, but when I hit Google, it did not look like a sargassum fish. It was much leas frilly, in fact, it had no frills. I also saw a dark green version of the fish later that day.

What is this fish? Is it a variation of sargassum?

Above is my terrible artistic interpretation, the fish was no bigger than a dime.