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Loggoog
08-05-2009, 03:06 PM
I caught this fish up in North Idaho, and it looks like some kind of bass. Any ideas?
Thanks!
-Loggoog
cappo
08-05-2009, 03:09 PM
smallmouth?
J. Owen
08-05-2009, 03:40 PM
smallmouth look at the eyes:EyePop:
FishermanStu
08-05-2009, 07:05 PM
squawfish. definitely
FishermanStu
08-05-2009, 07:06 PM
but seriously. its a smallmouth. the lower maxillary(?) aka mouth part does not go past the eye. thus, smallmouth
Loggoog
08-07-2009, 11:43 PM
it doesnt really have the stripes of a smallmouth, but then again, it wasnt that big. I dont know. maybe it is a smallmouth.
tacklejunkie
08-08-2009, 08:01 AM
squawfish. definitely
Aaaghahaha.
FishermanStu
08-09-2009, 05:34 PM
it doesnt really have the stripes of a smallmouth, but then again, it wasnt that big. I dont know. maybe it is a smallmouth.
dont quote me but i have heard that when fish live in deeper water they get less colorful
smokehound
08-10-2009, 06:44 PM
There are several fish that it could be. color patterns dont really identify fish well, especially with smallmouth bass and it's kin-- Redeye bass, shoal bass, Suwanee bass, etc. All look very similar to the plain jane smallmouth, and only a good resolution photo can determine.
Scale counts, ray counts, and and number of spines all make the final determination.
bassmeister
08-11-2009, 12:29 AM
That there is a Smallmouth
City Dad
08-11-2009, 10:13 AM
squawfish. definitely
It's a Greater Columbia Pike Minnow, lab partner :Rolls Eyes:
basscatcher
08-11-2009, 02:20 PM
might be a shoal bass dont have the darker colors of a small mouth.
God Bless
basscatcher