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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
Warmouth in the piedmont of the Carolina's.
Yup! Good eatin' fish.
Warmouth
Rock bass. Catch 1-2 a year.
warmouth.
Here is why: http://www.tnfish.org/FishIdentifica...cation_Key.htm
Here is photos:
TWRA - Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - Sunfish Identification
Awesome! Thanks for all the help and replies guys. After looking at the TWRA pics above, it is definately a warmouth. I must say that has to be a first!. I thought for sure he was some type of hybrid smallmouth. Thanks again.
They may not be a hybrid smallmouth, but they sure do act like one at times :RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by stringstalker911
I don't know how many times I've had a Warmouth pick up my 6" worm or 4" plastic craw, and have me thinking it was a big 'ole Bass ... then send him flying completely over the boat with my "cross his eyes" hookset :Rofl
Or grab my crankbait and shake the fire out of the end of my rod as I reel it in :biggrin
Can't say as I've caught many Warmouth when fishing for Crappie ... but, I can wear out a marabou Roadrunner on their crazy cousin, the Green Sunfish ... especially if I'm casting right against the banks. rotfl
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Rock Bass. Ha. I'm sure the website is right but it's been a Rock bass my whole life anyway!
Yep ... Rock Bass, Goggle Eye, Redeye, Warmouth, and other names are used to describe a Warmouth or Rock Bass, interchangeably ... even though a Rock Bass & Warmouth are two different species. They can be hard to distinguish from each other.Quote:
Originally Posted by blue-jig
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I think I learned that from my grandfather or a friend of his when I caught one at 5-6 years old on a willow fly hatch and been calling it rock bass ever since then. You're right, they are tough and will strip drag on a lil spinner.
They are a stout little fish. If you get one over 8" then you really got a good one. I have always called it a warmouth aka rock bass ever since I was a young en.
Yes it's a warmouth. They hit like to ton of bricks.
In Ohio, warmouth
I caught one on a big crankbait in KY lake last year trolling for crappie in 20 feet of water. Bait was 1/3 the size of the fish.
When I used to tournament bass fish in Ga, we used a lot of fire-tail plastic worms. Those little suckers would grab that tail, start moving off like a big bass, but when you set the hook all you got back was a worm with no firetail.
We always called them rock bass when I was growing up here in KY but warmouths in GA.
Warmouth. It's a good thing they don't get big, you'd need snagging equipment handle them.
Warmouth
wwwildlife.ow.ncrg/Learning/Species/Fish/Warmouth.aspx
In NC we have both Rock Bass and Warmouth and they are 2 seperate spices. Check out these 2 links above.
Largemouth Bream :biggrin
Sammich maker.
lunch
I have managed to ketch quite a few of both species ....rock bass up north and warmouth down south
that fish is a warmouth for sure and they actually can get pretty large .....look up the records on them in some states
I was surprised they got that big ....I have never seen one get really big ....maybe a pound max ...
I'm with the consensus - definitely a Warmouth Bass. We call them Goggle Eye in this area. I've seen many fly over my head after they hit a plastic worm and I think I'm crossing the eyes of a green carp. My boy has a knack for catching warmouth and gets at least one almost every time we go brim fishing. If you ever keep missing strikes in the same spot when fishing for bass, there's a real good chance that there's a warmouth at home in that spot.
Definitely a warmouth.
Lupomis gulosus
Yeah I have to admit I was very disappointed when I pulled him out of the water, for as much fight as he gave I really thought he would have been bigger. He was about 7 or 8 inches long and gave my light spinning gear heck. lol
We get rockbass from the shorelines of Lake Erie in both Ohio and PA in mid spring. They get pretty good size too. Some up to 13". Best tasting if you don't freeze them. No problem catching close to a hundred a day too.
Warmouth pefers sluggish streams . Some call it a stump knocker or goggle eye. Rock Bass is a different speciesQuote:
Originally Posted by "G"
They live in different type watersQuote:
Originally Posted by CrappiePappy
They may live in different type waters, but around here we catch Warmouth in our lakes, too. We do have Rock Bass, according to the field guide from the KDFWR, but to my knowledge I've never caught one. Our state record Rock Bass (1lb 10oz) came from a creek that flows into Green River Lake. Our state record Warmouth (1lb 6oz) came from a farm pond.Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
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