Thread: monster warmouth from the canal!

Originally Posted by dnchance

Doesn't look like it's for the area he mentioned... most of it looked like carp/catfish were the main species listed.

Maybe, but there's a thing about Warmouth that would make me wonder about the water quality if I was just catching Warmouth and no other type Sunfish.

Warmouth are quite secretive. They seek cover in rocky banks, stumps or weeds, or near other large objects, where they can hide and wait for food. They are sight feeders. When in breeding condition, the males' eyes turn red. After the female lays her eggs, the male fertilizes the eggs and aggressively defends the nest, eggs and fry from any intruder-including other females. Warmouth hybridize (crossbreed) with bluegill and green sunfish. They can survive in polluted, low oxygenated waters where other sunfish cannot. Warmouth are often confused with rock bass. The difference between the two is in the anal fin: warmouth have three spines on the anal fin ray and rock bass have six spines.

Originally Posted by GCD

Maybe, but there's a thing about Warmouth that would make me wonder about the water quality if I was just catching Warmouth and no other type Sunfish.

Warmouth are quite secretive. They seek cover in rocky banks, stumps or weeds, or near other large objects, where they can hide and wait for food. They are sight feeders. When in breeding condition, the males' eyes turn red. After the female lays her eggs, the male fertilizes the eggs and aggressively defends the nest, eggs and fry from any intruder-including other females. Warmouth hybridize (crossbreed) with bluegill and green sunfish. They can survive in polluted, low oxygenated waters where other sunfish cannot. Warmouth are often confused with rock bass. The difference between the two is in the anal fin: warmouth have three spines on the anal fin ray and rock bass have six spines.

i have caught bluegill and pumpkinseed in the area before, and people there regulary catch l.m bass and bluegill, on the occasion crappie and catfish.

thats damn big warmouth!probly biggest i ever saw.all the ones i ever caught in virginia were dinks.

Here is the biggest one I have ever caught. I think it is a rock bass, but if not correct me. It was super thick, and had quite a gut on it. I just released back to the pond, who knows maybe I will catch some years from now and it will be a state record or something.

its a rock bass

Originally Posted by steelslinger86

Here is the biggest one I have ever caught. I think it is a rock bass, but if not correct me. It was super thick, and had quite a gut on it. I just released back to the pond, who knows maybe I will catch some years from now and it will be a state record or something.

definatly a warmouth.
and this....
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._rupestris.jpg
is a rock bass.

That's definitely a Warmouth. I've caught several around that size, here in KY, at Herrington Lake ... casting crankbaits along steep, rocky, cliff banks.

You very well could break your state record, of 1lb even (9.9" ~ ), if you keep after them
I'd have to go just a little bit farther, to break the KY state record for Warmouth .... 1lb 6.2oz :p

Just as a little encouragement .... BOTH state records were caught from "ponds" :D

... cp

That is a Warmouth ... we have been catching more this year here on the Choctawhatchee than normal ... mostly in still or slow moving water ... although I caught 2 all most as large as the one in the Pic this AM on a spinner bait in a hard running slough ... out in the river I had them "Pecking" on a plastic worm ...

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