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Just wondering if anyone can help be identify this bass I caught Saturday. I am no expert on these things . From looking at several pictures I can't find one that is just like this one.
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Now the experts can have something to do today lol :scratchhead
My vote is spotted bass
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Agreed my vote is spotted bass
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Spot, and boy does he need to eat! :Rofl
well he was chomping on schools of minnows lol. And he hit my crank bait before I started pulling it!! he was in shallow water maybe 2fow. If he had moved out about 10 feet into deeper water he could have had shiners 3 inches or more for a long time. :RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by happycaster58
So far it seems spotted bass is the going determination. Can anyone tell be why spotted and not Alabama bass? My brother says Alabama bass (he considers himself an expert on all things fishing related, LOL) This is a learning experience for me.
On a closer look I now think Alabama bass is correct. A spots jaw will extend to just below the eye. The jaw on the Alabama is shorter. This one is clearly shorter than than below the eye.
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Just looks like a starving Largemouth to me. A Spotted Bass would have darker "spots" below the lateral line, but the clincher would be if the fish has a tongue patch.
:hesaid That is a Large Mouth bass but looks poor. I agree with Crappiepappy
I’ve caught a ton of Spots. As has been mentioned…did it have a tooth patch?? From the photo you can’t tell about the dorsal fin…which is different between a Spot and a largemouth. Hard to say with info at hand but I would say skinny largemouth.
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from the little I have to compare to; I am leaning to a skinny largemouth myself. Thanks guys, I will have to start paying attention to the tooth patch
Looks like a largemouth with a screwed up mouth. A derp bass as it's called in Jay Kumars bass blaster.
I don't know how it works in Tn. but in Ky. nowadays they don't go by the tongue patch. Don't know if it's because of hybridizing or what but the jaw line rules nowadays because lots of largemouth have a tongue patch. If not a hybrid though a spot is pretty easily distinguished from a largemouth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mstr Dan
Spotted bass look vastly different than largemouth bass and that is, as stated just a wore down tired largemouth bass
Jawlines if you want to use that method of Id are done with the mouth closed
Spotted bass are built much like smallmouth and have distinct spots on the belly in lateral rows
Spots are also rarely “faded out” in coloration
My 2 cents
They don’t go by tooth patch only in TN also. In past few years I’ve gotten into a few largemouth that have a tooth patch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Les Young
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Here is what a healthy Spot looks like. Out of the thousands I’ve caught I don’t think I’ve ever had one that wasn’t eating well.
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Yep that ones like me. Slightly obese. :Rofl
Regular largemouth that needs to eat.
I vote skinny LMB. Alpha, that’s a chubby spot for sure! I had one like that almost steal my rod in Normandy a few years back. They just don’t give up!