Alright folks. I caught this fish at Jordan today. What type of fish is it? It was real yellow, kinda looked like a bluegill, had some crappie markings, etc.
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Alright folks. I caught this fish at Jordan today. What type of fish is it? It was real yellow, kinda looked like a bluegill, had some crappie markings, etc.
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Looks like a war mouth
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Interesting. I just know I've never caught anything like it before.
Yeah it's a war mouth
Warmouth, called goggle eye in south Louisiana.
Yep. Definitely a war mouth. We catch a lot of them in the spring when the crappie are spawning. We usually catch them right up on the bank. Lasts maybe 2 weeks and then they're gone. Always small.
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We catch them right on the bank at Norman then run up the river above I 40 and Cats will nail them. Yours looks a bit bigger than what I catch though. Definitely the same kind of fish though.
In South Carolina we call them Warmouth Peearrch.
This is a Warmouth. They get bigger (up to 1lb) in tanic water. They bed in single beds less than a ft deep in late April and early May. Old folks down east call them Mud Chubs. They are protective of their bed and will hit anything that gets near it. If you loose one, it will go straight back to bed and will bite again. When I was a boy I would wade for them in the swamps fishing with a short reed pole and a popping bug. many times I would see them on the bed (maybe male and female) and work the bug over the bed. Those were the good ole days.
It's called a rock bass, very close to a war mouth but not the same warmouth have green stripes and the body shape is a little different
Sorry gents, but that there is a shellcracker Attachment 261323
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actually, it is not a shell cracker or red ear - the mouth is way to large for a shell cracker. as noted by the others, the fish is a goggle eye, rock bass, or warmouth - depending upon which part of the country you are from.
Thanks. It's the first one I've caught in all the time I've been fishing. I thought it was just a deformed mess of a fish. Caught it in 25 FOW at the bottom. Water was pretty stained.
Rock Bass/ War Mouth. I guess it just depends upon where you are from and whom you are with. I do know this though....... A flathead will lay the smack down on that little baby. Like someone else said, don't see them long but when we do they are going in the live well and ill break out a 6500 ABU and toss him out on a road bed or at a ccrete boat landing. Set thee clicker and get ready!!
My uncle had a pond which had some War Mouths in it. That is what you have.
Warmouth and they fight good especially when you have an ultra light rig!