Thread: Name that fish

Looks like a war mouth


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Interesting. I just know I've never caught anything like it before.

Yeah it's a war mouth

Warmouth, called goggle eye in south Louisiana.

Yep. Definitely a war mouth. We catch a lot of them in the spring when the crappie are spawning. We usually catch them right up on the bank. Lasts maybe 2 weeks and then they're gone. Always small.

TW

We catch them right on the bank at Norman then run up the river above I 40 and Cats will nail them. Yours looks a bit bigger than what I catch though. Definitely the same kind of fish though.

In South Carolina we call them Warmouth Peearrch.

This is a Warmouth. They get bigger (up to 1lb) in tanic water. They bed in single beds less than a ft deep in late April and early May. Old folks down east call them Mud Chubs. They are protective of their bed and will hit anything that gets near it. If you loose one, it will go straight back to bed and will bite again. When I was a boy I would wade for them in the swamps fishing with a short reed pole and a popping bug. many times I would see them on the bed (maybe male and female) and work the bug over the bed. Those were the good ole days.