ID Spotted or LMB

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That really looks like a young red-eye or maybe some other bass to me. The spots look to vertically elongate to be either spotted or largemouth. Maybe shoal bass???

Get a full-body, clear pic. If it is a spotted, it will have rows of small black dots on its white belly.
 
It looks alot like mine other than the dark tail fin. Im not sure if mine are spotted or guadalupe bass, but they are cool fish. I feed them by hand sometimes
 
Gaudalupe bass is another possibility. I just couldn't remember the name when I was posting last night... I was pretty tired.
 
It's not a spotted.
Doesn't have spots on belly, has 2 distinct dorsal fins, and spotteds often have reddish eyes.

I think it's just a nice looking LMB, or it could be a guadalupe, but I don't know much about those.
 
ShadowBass;1298142; said:
It's not a spotted.
Doesn't have spots on belly, has 2 distinct dorsal fins, and spotteds often have reddish eyes.

I think it's just a nice looking LMB, or it could be a guadalupe, but I don't know much about those.
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I dont think they have spots when they are that small. According to my petersons field guide, LMB dont necessarily have the jaw going past the eye in young bass, but It does have the exact same markings and fin structure as mine with the exception of the dark on the tail. I dont remember if they had that when they were that small. The mouth on them goes back to the rear half of the eye
 
Looking at the dorsal, it looks like an LMB. The soft and spiny parts look almost separated, while in a Guadalupe and spotted, they look connected (taller/less variation in size of dorsl spines).
 
Thanks for the reply's, He does have a few little spots under the lateral line but there aren't any on the underneath of his belly (not sure if thats what spotted or guadalupe bass have). Well if your book says that in young largemouths the mouth doesn't go beyond the eye than I'm going more twords a LMB because sometimes his mouth looks like it's beyond the eye and other times it looks like it lines up right with the back of the eye. For some reason I want to think the black tail has something to do with it being a LMB (or a specific strain of LMB). Like most of us I had never heard of spotted or guadalupe bass. I was only aware of smallmouth and largemouth. That is why I had to ask for some opinions. Before I knew of spotted or guadalupe I was 100% sure it was a LMB. So unless someone can prove me wrong I'm back to him being a LMB. ;)
 
rjmtx;1298510; said:
Looking at the dorsal, it looks like an LMB. The soft and spiny parts look almost separated, while in a Guadalupe and spotted, they look connected (taller/less variation in size of dorsl spines).
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That is also true.. The spines on the front dorsal fin are predominantly sticking out above the webbed part of the fin just like spikes.
 
If you're not in Texas, don't worry about Guadalupes. We generally catch spotteds or Guadalupes in moving water while LMBs usually prefer slack water. There is some overlapping, though, this is only a rule of thumb.

If you are in Texas, if you live in the Hill Country, you'll probably run into Guadalupes. You'll find spotteds north and east of the hills.
 
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