Bartholomew lake 3/11

Made a run this morning to try out a place I rarely fish.

As JR would say conditions were perfect, cold, windy, rain, cold, cold and cold....

Started off dipping shallow trees and bam, bass almost 4#. Go to next tree, bam 11" crappie. Go to next tree and bam, 2# bass. You see the pattern here?

Fished till the rain made me quit at 11. Just about the time I start picking up some good crappie the bottom falls out.

Kept 8 crappie, tossed a few back. Almost kept a limit of bass and tossed a few of those back along the way also. Had 4 bass go over 3#

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Caught most of them on this.
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Nice 20.......How's it feel to be famous?

Way to catch em 20 watt!

Way to go Jimmy. Congratulations on making something out of a rough day. Good box of fish.

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Nice 20.......How's it feel to be famous?

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About the same, fame will only change you if you let it. I've been turning down pro staff offers left and right. J/K. [emoji39] [emoji39] [emoji39] [emoji39]

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I see an opportunity for some fish i.d in here as well. This one bass is considerably darker than the rest, almost black where the rest are a shade of green. I noticed the color difference when I caught it.

Now I haven't done much bass fishing in at least 15 yrs but I didn't think bass change color like crappie did, is this a different species of bass?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...247ddefa7e.jpg

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Did it's [emoji104] have a rough spot?:)


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sweet.. that jig style/color was one of our best lures on the point last week...

Jimmy, the dark one is a black bass the green ones are green trout. :Rofl Couldn't help myself.
"gene"

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Don't know. I don't kiss em like Jimmy Houston ?

PPG I figured that was the difference lol
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Mess of filets there! [emoji1303]


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Upon further review it does have a dark rough patch on the tongue that the others don't have. What does that tell us Dr Tal?

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Bass Identification

Spotted Bass???

Oh, that's a tongue. I thought it was butt cheeks. Made me :scratchhead when you talked about kissing it.

Good catch n even better jig! Can't ask for better going to a seldom place n running from rain n still catching. Good fisherman.

After fishing yesterday, I think the weird weather has the fish species brains twangled. Seriously



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I missed the Tongue also thought it to be Cheeks

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Good catch n even better jig! Can't ask for better going to a seldom place n running from rain n still catching. Good fisherman.

After fishing yesterday, I think the weird weather has the fish species brains twangled. Seriously



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Yep. Everytime it warms up here comes a cold front. I saw shad spawning on grass yesterday I wonder how bad a cool down affects freshly spawned eggs

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Bass Identification

Spotted Bass???

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yep also called kentucky bass...

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Oh, that's a tongue. I thought it was butt cheeks. Made me :scratchhead when you talked about kissing it.

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LOL

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Upon further review it does have a dark rough patch on the tongue that the others don't have. What does that tell us Dr Tal?

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Kentucky/spotted bass.....

IMHO.....:)

Another way to identify the Kentucky bass is that they have a noticeable red streak in their eye. Or at least every one I've caught has.

Ya see what I've been telling ya'll. And you proved me right.;)

Nice catch But my trout was bigger.:biggrin

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Ya see what I've been telling ya'll. And you proved me right.;)

Nice catch But my trout was bigger.:biggrin

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How so?

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Go team Overalls!!

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I see an opportunity for some fish i.d in here as well. This one bass is considerably darker than the rest, almost black where the rest are a shade of green. I noticed the color difference when I caught it.

Now I haven't done much bass fishing in at least 15 yrs but I didn't think bass change color like crappie did, is this a different species of bass?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...247ddefa7e.jpg

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Those are all largemouth bass. The jaw extends too far past the eye to be a spotted

All fish can change color depending on water chemistry. Catch a bass or white perch or bream at black bayou or Cheniere Lake and they will all be dark.

Catch one on Ouachita River or Poverty Point or muddy water and they will be light colored