What Type of Bass
- Thread starter JasonsPlecosCichlids
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Clearly not Florida due to their intolerance to the cold temperatures. And it's not a largemouth bass either. It's a spotted bass based on the upper jaw that is not expanded past the eye and the spotted pattern on low side of the body. It should have a tooth patch on the tongue. So what is your point of the thread?
The same point that everyone else tries to make when they make a post like this.
Your guess in incorrect.
And that's where the problem comes in is that you don't stated the location where the bass was found and the lure was covering the mouth which caused problems with ID.
You can see where the jaw line ends, that's you all need to see, as you already pointed out. I forget the location but I have it saved on my laptop at home.
Well I can rule out few species:
It's not Largemouth Bass. It's not Florida Bass. It's not Smallouth Bass. It's not Redeye Bass. Does it has tooth patch on the tongue?
It's not Largemouth Bass. It's not Florida Bass. It's not Smallouth Bass. It's not Redeye Bass. Does it has tooth patch on the tongue?
I think the location would be huge helpful since most bass species have serious limited distribution.
Call it what you want rebel is right it's a spot, it's not a red eye, it's not a shoal, it's not a suwannee, it's not a guadalupe, it's not a bartram, it's not a smallie, or LBM and it looks just like the 1000 spots a year I catch. To truly ID you would need to know were it was caught and if it does have a toothed tongue as rebel said. 
Let's see: Suwannee Bass' upper jaw barely past the eye and has black spots on anal, dorsal and caudal fins and have a tooth patch; this fish's upper jaw do not past the eye and it lacks of the spots on the anal, dorsal and caudal fins.
Redeye Bass has white edges on the red caudal fin and has tooth patch; this fish do not have any white edges, nor the tail is red.
Shoal Bass resemble Smallmouth bass, no tooth patch, has more bars and it do not have strong black lateral line; this fish has strong black lateral line but less bars.
Bartram's Bass- super resemble Redeyes and has white tips & more bars.
Gaudalupe Bass- may have yellow pectoral fins but very few rivers hold pure Gaudalupe Bass these days and they are confirmed in Texas only. They do resemble Spotted Bass but has 12 bars.
So that leaves us only three species: Spotted Bass, Alabama Bass and Choctaw Bass.
Redeye Bass has white edges on the red caudal fin and has tooth patch; this fish do not have any white edges, nor the tail is red.
Shoal Bass resemble Smallmouth bass, no tooth patch, has more bars and it do not have strong black lateral line; this fish has strong black lateral line but less bars.
Bartram's Bass- super resemble Redeyes and has white tips & more bars.
Gaudalupe Bass- may have yellow pectoral fins but very few rivers hold pure Gaudalupe Bass these days and they are confirmed in Texas only. They do resemble Spotted Bass but has 12 bars.
So that leaves us only three species: Spotted Bass, Alabama Bass and Choctaw Bass.