Anyone seen a smallie like this? It's from a river in Oklahoma and I'm wondering if this is what they might call the Neosho strain smallie.
BTW..not mine, I found it on the web.
BTW..not mine, I found it on the web.
Neosho strain smallie?
- Thread starter snookman
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beautiful fish. i don't know anything about the strains but i believe cichlid finder posted a picture of a real pretty smallmouth he caught last year.
Neosho Smallmouth have a prominent dark spot on the rear of the gill cover. The jaw extends slightly farther back then a northern smallmouth, almost reaching the rear of the eye. It is mainly found in tributaries of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma, Arkansas, & Missouri.
I can't tell from the photo where the mouth ends but I don't see the dark spot on the gill cover. So I would say no, its not a Neosho Smallmouth.
I can't tell from the photo where the mouth ends but I don't see the dark spot on the gill cover. So I would say no, its not a Neosho Smallmouth.
Also Neosho Smallmouth Bass have 13 dorsal rays, and a protruding jaw (teeth visible from above). Well we can't tell what the view from above would look like, but I count 14 rays in the dorsal fin so again just a northern smallmouth.
