I didnt expect that to be a smallie. It had no noticeable hook holes and it had pretty big teeth for that size but i also didnt get to see the other side so it may as well be a smallie. Thank you for iding it.
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could be... to me the mouth looks just like a sauger but the body shape does say bass to me. So it is plausible that its just a bass with a messed up mouth. Hard to tell much about anything because of the angle. If it had pronounced teeth then it was a sauger. If it just had longer bristle pads then definitely bass. But that body screams bass.
well certainly nothing to brag about but its my first flathead since June... these fellas are not doing much in the HOT sluggish water over here.
added a bonus pic of a big jacked up sucker while carp fishing Thursday.
added a bonus pic of a big jacked up sucker while carp fishing Thursday.
I'm gona go with a member of the perch family....its no smallie thats for sure, 100% sure. Smallies at that size do not have teeth like that whatsoever or any size for that matter, Ive caught them from a few inches to almost 5lbs, if they had equipment like that when I lipped them, my fingers would be shredded. Bass teeth are closely packed together, pretty much even in size whereas a walleye have actual teeth, spaced out a lot farther apart and are sharp.You can clearly see in the photo the teeth, you wouldnt, most likely be able to see the teeth of a bass at this angle. And they also dont have eyes this large, there is a reason they have this large eye and it doesnt appear to be infected in this photo, or should I say visible infection. My 3lb sauger that I had in my tank, looked almost like this when it died, it had blotches all over the body. Since the fins are down its hard to tell if its a sauger, saugeye or walleye but its probably one of the three.
I posted both photos to my FB wall and everyone there says sauger or walleye.
deffinately a sauger varient, maybe a saugeye. It also looks like it has some scale issue. Probably a sick saugeye.
Id take that flatty for my tank
Thats a nice horse there, they get bigger than this. My buddy caught one this year, was about this size.
