monster warmouth from the canal!

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07-19-2010, 11:03 PM
jonnythefisherman1

monster warmouth from the canal!

at about 6:40 in the evening, i hit the ohio erie canal in coventry county. using dead minnows on a jighead, i caught a small 3'' warmouth. after releasing the warmouth, i had no luck for 10 minutes. so i switched out the minnow for a chartuse WAHOO! jig. great move! i moved over to some lily pads and jigged the lure on the lily pad and let it drop into the water. this way i caught 2 nice bluegills that flopped right out my hand into the water:) then i caught a good 6'' warmouth on the jig. 30 minutes and a few more small ones later, i went a area where a man was fishing with a plastic worm. i caught a another 6'' warmouth. as soon as i put my jig in the water where a bunch of baitfish where panicking, a 7 1/2'' warmouth came charging out like a bass and swallowed the entire jig, but luckly i set the hook in time to keep it from getting throat hook. the man admired the catch and offered me his fish. i accepted the fish and left at 8:00
fish kept and caught
warmouth bass:7 1/2 in
warmouth bass:6 in
warmouth bass:6 in
07-20-2010, 01:11 AM
Slab

Got any pictures of that big Warmouth. Always wondered if they get looking like a big headed bluegill.
07-20-2010, 06:02 AM
Pat

Great report ! thanks for posting, post some pic`s if you have them
07-20-2010, 10:09 AM
jonnythefisherman1

i have pics but i have no idea how to post them. they are on a cell phone.
07-20-2010, 11:13 AM
jimeisaac

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Originally Posted by jonnythefisherman1

i have pics but i have no idea how to post them. they are on a cell phone.

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/panfi...-pictures.html
07-20-2010, 11:24 AM
Slab

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/post-...appie-com.html

Or there to go straight from the phone.
07-20-2010, 11:37 AM
jonnythefisherman1

thanks! but i dont think i will post the pic. it not a very good one and its just me with a 6'' warmouth.
07-20-2010, 06:46 PM
T.C.

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Originally Posted by Slab

Got any pictures of that big Warmouth. Always wondered if they get looking like a big headed bluegill.

slab, they dont look nuttin like a gill, they are short, THICK across the back and got a big ole mouth for such a small fish. catch alot off of minnows fishing in the shallows for crappie, they hang around cypress trees by the bank also. I capitalized think cause they really are, you can have the same lenght bluegill and the warmouth has twice the meat. and by short i dont mean they dont get big, i have heard of 1 1/2 pounders but the majority you catch arent very long.
07-20-2010, 06:51 PM
T.C.

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heres one i found online to show off, i dont have any personal pics of my own to show off, i always throw em back cause i catch em when im after specks. but you can tell how meaty they are, cool lookin little fish.

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07-20-2010, 10:22 PM
GCD

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Originally Posted by jonnythefisherman1

. i accepted the fish and left at 8:00
fish kept and caught
warmouth bass:7 1/2 in
warmouth bass:6 in
warmouth bass:6 in

Dude! are you sure you want to be keeping and eating those fish? There's a Huge fish consumption advisory list for your state!

Ohio Sport Fish Consumption Advisory - Limit Meals
07-21-2010, 08:13 AM
dnchance

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Originally Posted by GCD

Dude! are you sure you want to be keeping and eating those fish? There's a Huge fish consumption advisory list for your state!

Ohio Sport Fish Consumption Advisory - Limit Meals

Doesn't look like it's for the area he mentioned... most of it looked like carp/catfish were the main species listed.
07-23-2010, 06:13 AM
GCD

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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.
07-24-2010, 01:26 PM
jonnythefisherman1

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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.
07-25-2010, 02:46 PM
bxn

thats damn big warmouth!probly biggest i ever saw.all the ones i ever caught in virginia were dinks.
07-25-2010, 03:17 PM
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.http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/...s/rockbass.jpg
07-25-2010, 03:35 PM
PBUG2009

its a rock bass
07-25-2010, 09:30 PM
jonnythefisherman1

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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.http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/...s/rockbass.jpg

definatly a warmouth.
and this....
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._rupestris.jpg
is a rock bass.
07-26-2010, 03:10 AM
CrappiePappy

Right you are, Jonny ....

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" :eek: :D

... cp :cool:
07-26-2010, 02:51 PM
JSC

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 ...

JSC
07-26-2010, 09:22 PM
jonnythefisherman1

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Originally Posted by JSC

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 ...

JSC

they apparently don't like swift water. which is why i always catch em' under rocks and stuff.
07-31-2010, 06:31 AM
skeetbum

Okay, I'll give ya the scoop that a friend of mine schooled me with. I can usually catch fish in a glass o water, but Bill put to shame this day. St Johns river, within a mile of the Whitehair Bridge on hiway44 just west of Deland(22yrs). He pulls up into a downfallen tree with hyacinth all gathered in the branches. No depth finder, but around 8 to 10 fow. He pulls a cane pole with a piece of steel wire bent into a hook and proceeds to pull open about a dozen holes in the mat of hyacinth. Then grabs a 10' telescopic jiggin rod, fairly stiff, loaded with braid and a 1/16 jig with a 1.5" chartreuse curltail. I caught one and lost about a dozen jigs - no braid - while he loded the bucket with about a dozen FAT warmouth in short order. Throwbacks too. He said anywhere you can find a tree down in deeper water you'll find warmouth, they like hangin around the wood. Hope this works for y'all, it did for me on several trips after the "school" day. Love the colors on those fish.
08-02-2010, 01:39 PM
MikeA57

Do they eat good?
08-03-2010, 01:09 PM
dignlevel

I fish for those fellas a good bit in the swamps. they like to get under anything and ambush prey. Usually use a white grub on a beetle spin or roadrunner.
08-05-2010, 04:16 PM
shipahoy41

I used to catch them when I lived in Ohio. Good report. Thank you for the memories. Go Browns!