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So I was out fishing with my son this afternoon and caught this sucker. I caught him in about 7-9 fow with a finesse worm on a shakey head jig. He looks like a small mouth but had a very yellow belly and very distict orange/reddish color fins. It wasnt like bloody fins like you typically see in spawning fish it was a bright orange.
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Rock bass.
Called Goggle Eye in Texas
about ten of em scaled and gutted,rolled in cornmeal and fried whole.Corn on the cob,wilted lettuce and a slice of apple pie for dessert is what an ozark hillbilly calls lunch.
Dinner.
The rock bass where I was in TN had red eyes and really had an attitude. Looked very similar.
Rock bass, aka black perch around here.
Here in Missouri that's a hybrid goggle eyed and a mean green sunfish. I sometimes here the old timers call them warmouths. My good friend Stlcrappienightmare and I caught a bunch of these and other species like small mouth, kentuckies another cross between a small/large mouth, and countless other panfish in the Bourebouse River just west of St. Louis. That's also a decent eating fish that's if you like eating bluegill, it's not a bad table fair.Quote:
Originally Posted by smashdn
If it's legal in your state, that fish is a secret flathead bait. It catches monster flatheads for some reason or another.
warmouth
Here in SE Louisiana, we call them Goggle Eye....love to catch 'em on UL fishing a 4" blue/purple worm with no weight along the base of the trees in the bayous...
Agree with G....warmouth in my neck of the woods