id on bass i just caught

[Diskboy12]

I say normal LMB.

 

[wcgunns]

Spotted Bass

 

[JIM]

I Tend to agree with Bumpy, the spotted bass doesnt range into Illinois, if that is where this fish was taken

Though quite widely distributed outside of Florida, the spotted bass is mostly restricted to the streams of the panhandle from the Perdido River to the Apalachicola River. Their numbers are somewhat limited in this area, but the fish primarily occurs in and west of the Choctawhatchee River.

But, I suppose he could have been visiting his northern Cousins and was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and couldnt resist being caught out of range

 

[Northern Pike]

sometimes you never no, it's nearly impossible to tell them apart without the proven parents and the dorsal as some largemouth bass have that spotted look to them

 

[Northern Pike]

if the dorsal fin of this fish was up I could easily tell

 

[sanman3510]

that is a spotted they have alot of those in kentucky they dont get as big as regular large mouths i have caught many spotted in kentucky none in illinois

 

[JIM]

Correct, i was mainly going by his home location, but that fish may be an import from KY or further south

 

[SkidMark]

looks like a lmb, with spots

 

[I<3fish]

I Tend to agree with Bumpy, the spotted bass doesnt range into Illinois, if that is where this fish was taken

Though quite widely distributed outside of Florida, the spotted bass is mostly restricted to the streams of the panhandle from the Perdido River to the Apalachicola River. Their numbers are somewhat limited in this area, but the fish primarily occurs in and west of the Choctawhatchee River.

But, I suppose he could have been visiting his northern Cousins and was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and couldnt resist being caught out of range

In America, native range really has stopped to mean anything. Spotted bass are fairly common, even where they "shouldn't" be... Thus being said, I have caught tons of spotteds and largemouths, and that fish is a spotted bass.

 

[knifegill]

How many types of LMB are there?! I thought one! I know so little about natives that it hurts.