got a few nice pumpkinseeds and specks yesterday after work
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got a few nice pumpkinseeds and specks yesterday after work
NICE is right, Slabs...don't ya just love this time of year?
Shew, all these pics of slabs is making me sweat, I'm gonna have to sneak off before long & wet a line. Nice catch!
very nice
Oh yea nice catch.
The one in your hand has to be over 9". Good fish! How did you catch em?
awsome fish dude! glad ur catching:)
That fish looks like a cross between a shellcracker and a punkinseed, a true punkinseed that size would have a large hump over its eyes.
<<<That fish looks like a cross between a shellcracker and a punkinseed, a true punkinseed that size would have a large hump over its eyes.>>>
...a question about cross breeding? I understand the way a hybrid is derived...I've Googled that before. Maybe I should Google this too...whether ALL these various panfish/bream species may cross at some point? Will they? Can they?
I got into some gills today and caught a couple of these little guys (circled below and one enlarged). Mean little buggers and they have that super-sized mouth. I am guessing these are warmouths...the top one being very black and the bottom one colored quite differently but the same big jaws. Couple shellcrackers mixed in there too.
the fish with the circle around it on the bottom looks like we here in tennessee call a rock bass
nice catch
He didn't have them bright red eyes typical of a rock bass but he does resemble one. That black one is a different critter I guess.
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Originally Posted by 78mudbug
Rock Bass here in arkansas also
Those are some nice fish, it is weird the different colors on teh some speices of fish
We call those goggle eyes down here but they are really warm mouths, their eyes turn deep red when they are about to spawn. They are not rock bass but are simular I can't remember how to tell them apart but I think it is a tooth patch and the location you catch them in around the country. As for the warm mouth (goggle eye) they are usually very fat and pull pretty hard. I catch the really nice ones on plastic worms are beetle spins. They have a larger mouth than a shellcracker.
I had always used rock bass and goggle eye inter-changeably, but never knew what a Warmouth was.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappiecatcher06
That's a really nice catch too
Here is a Roanoke Bass what we call Redeye, it looks just like a rock bass.
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j1...r/IMG_0619.jpg
Great looking mess of gills and crackers!!!
Now thats what I call a rock bass, we don't have those down here. That looks like a nice one.
the fish that goatkisser has is called a redeye it is different than a rockbass as soon as i catch some i will put pics on here to show the difference also i think that a redeye is also called a coosa bass
nice pics guys.
That bottom pic is exactly the type of fish I caught today. I got 1 @ 11" and 3 more @ 10". I just thought they were redear, since I've never caught anything like it before an d I knew there were redear in the lake I was fishing.Quote:
Originally Posted by slabsrus
Now I think maybe they were pumpikinseed. 11 and 10" are a little large though for pumpkinseed don't you think?
This is what we call a punkinseed and if they reach 10 inches they develope a large protruding hump over there eyes that gives them the exact shape of punkin seed hence the name. If you search freshwater sunfish they have a fish listed as a punkinseed that looks like the original posted picture, I always thought it was a cross with a shellcracker. The fish I have a pic of below they call it a longear sunfish and it is know as a punkinseed also.
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/m...creekwk004.jpg
Here is another pic.
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/m.../lmegalo21.jpg