If i am fishing around home it's bull bluegills they put up a good fight on ultralight rods and there great eating, In Canada it's jumbo perch fun to catch and also good eating

favorite to catch would be a slab crappie or a big thick bluegill. Favorite to eat would be a yellow perch and then the bluegill.

I love caughting black crappie i run a bettlespin. On a 6'6 ugly stick spl 1100 6 spinning rods

perch,rock bass and crappie in that order.lots of fun to catch on light tackle.

White Crappie and Rock Bass are my fav... Catch em on plastic curly tailed grubs

Bluegill, Redear, Pumpkinseed... Hands down for me.

Bluegill, Redear, Pumpkinseed... Hands down for me.

You mention hybrid bluegill. I live in PA and have been catching panfish that I have never seen before. Some people on my local forum said they are probably hybrids. They look similar to a small bass. They have bigger mouths. Thick, stout bodies but they have blue streaks or lines down the side similar to a bluegill. They look like a species on our PFBC website that are called green sunfish but aren't the correct color. They fight pretty hard. Like I said, they look like a small bass. I know they aren't rock bass. What do you think?

As for my favorite. I love catching any of the panfish species. I would rather catch a ton of small fish than sit there all day and only catch a few big fish. I have a really light action Berkley UL that makes bluegills and sunfish feel like bass. As for best eating, It may not be a panfish but I think Walleye is the best eating hands down.

Bluegill, crappie perch,. Like to eat the yellow perch the best. White bass are also a blast to catch, but not my favorite to eat. They are better in the winter when I can catch them through the ice. The cold water seems to firm them up and give them a milder taste.

Crappie, blue gill, and shell cracker, they are also the best eating fish. I like to use Berkley Power Baits they all seem to work very well minnows, red worms, nigthcrawler, and crickets best live bait. But I'm not locked in on any type lure if one does not work I will change lure, color, or retrieve. I have found if you change your retrieve first it will save you time completely changing lures. A example is early spring fishing a tree top in the lake I was using a medium speed retrieve no luck. I then speeded the retrieve up, once again no luck. Then slowed the retrieve way down, and got my first hit. After several more retrieves at this very slow I was still not getting much action. The next cast I raised the rod tip moving the cork 8 to 12 inches and let it fall. A 15 inch crappie took the lure on the drop. I kept repeating this retrieve and ended up with a very nice stringer of crappie. I had 22 crappie largest one 15 1/2 inches the smallest was 10 inches, most of the fish were between !5 and 12 inches. turned out to be a crappie day of fishing.

my favorite would have to be crappie and bluegill. can catch with worm or whatever

Yellow Perch, crappie, bluegill and the simple pumpkinseed are my favorite panfish to catch.

Crappie, bluegill and warmouth, here. Fun to catch, great to eat!