bass ID

[alecrromine]

I was trolling with a plano bait bucket hanging from the side of the boat while on the river. When I got home I dumped the bucket into a 55 gal I use for live bait. I noticed someome in there that I didn't put in there. Here it is. I'm thinking baby largemouth but it's really small (2.3"). So he made his home in an extra 75 gal I had in my house.

 

[snookman]

What river did it come out of. BTW...def not LMB (at first glance looks like a Kentucky spotted bass, or Micropterus punctulatus). Dorsals are notched and the back edge of the jaw bone does not go back further than the back edge of the eye. One thing to note is that it is still difficult to ID 100% at this size.

 

[MN_Rebel]

It looks like a LMB...

 

[pelleeklund]

I'm thinking largemouth too. I've bought a couple from a fish farm that size and they looked similar.

 

[alecrromine]

Clarksville

What river did it come out of. BTW...def not LMB (at first glance looks like a Kentucky spotted bass, or Micropterus punctulatus). Dorsals are notched and the back edge of the jaw bone does not go back further than the back edge of the eye. One thing to note is that it is still difficult to ID 100% at this size.

This came out of the West Fork Red River about a mile from where it meets the Red River, in Clarksville, Tennessee.

 

[Lepisosteus]

looks lmb

 

[JIM]

Spotted Bass ?

 

[alecrromine]

It was a spotted bass. He moved into the pond.

 

[Donnie Baker]

I was trolling with a plano bait bucket hanging from the side of the boat while on the river. When I got home I dumped the bucket into a 55 gal I use for live bait. I noticed someome in there that I didn't put in there. Here it is. I'm thinking baby largemouth but it's really small (2.3"). So he made his home in an extra 75 gal I had in my house.

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Spotted Bass ?

 

[Chicxulub]

Yeah you can tell that this bad boy is a spotted bass instead of a lmb because his dorsal fins are connected. In a lmb there is no membrane between them.