Perris - Electric Shock Fish Survey

[inthroughtheocean]

You've caught spotted bass in Lake Perris? Pics or it didn't happen.

[HawgZWylde]

You've caught spotted bass in Lake Perris? Pics or it didn't happen.

I could post a pic with an LMB and a Spot side by side and it would be extremely difficult if not impossible to discern between the two...

[BentRod]

I could post a pic with an LMB and a Spot side by side and it would be extremely difficult if not impossible to discern between the two...

True^^^^ sometimes even the LM at DVL look like spots!

[HawgZWylde]

True^^^^ sometimes even the LM at DVL look like spots!

Yup. And I swear some of the LMB's I've caught there have so much gold on top, smaller than normal mouths and with no lateral lines, they look like a Smallie/LMB hybrid. According to some articles I've read it is possible...

[BentRod]

^^^^^^^Could be

[noleash]

Yup. And I swear some of the LMB's I've caught there have so much gold on top, smaller than normal mouths and with no lateral lines, they look like a Smallie/LMB hybrid. According to some articles I've read it is possible...

Guys at Last Chance told me that what I had been catching were infact called Meanmouth bass! A cross breed between a LMB and SMB!

[HawgZWylde]

Guys at Last Chance told me that what I had been catching were infact called Meanmouth bass! A cross breed between a LMB and SMB!

The same article I was telling BentRod above about called them the same thing. Fight like a Smallie but with LMB girth...

[BentRod]

Interesting stuff!

[Stinkbait]

..And they were Alabama Spotted Bass, not Kentucky. There still are some hybrid LMB/ASB in the lake. Get one every once in a while.

So they originated in Alabama, but are also called Kentuckys, which are another sub species of the spotted bass.
http://www.landbigfish.com/articles/default.cfm?ID=1108
http://www.outdooralabama.com/alabama-bass

[HawgZWylde]

Interesting stuff!

Check this out;
http://www.in-fisherman.com/bass/hybrid-black-bass/