Originally, a cross bred between a largemouth bass and a smallmouth bass was called a meanmouth bass. Now a meanmouth bass is a smallmouth x spotted bass hybrid. The meanmouth is a more aggressive, tough fighting bass than its other cousins.
Click below link for photo of a Meanmouth Bass. Hard to identify as it looks like a Smallmouth
Your quick response is really appreciated. Many thanks.
The first link said the hybrids are hard to ID. But the one I saw is very unique. The skull is 100% SM. Body wise, the top is a LM but the bottom is a SM. With very distinctive SM bars pattern.
Different than a SM, the colour on the body didn't turn darker after coming out of the lake.
COMMON NAMES - Kentucky bass, Kentucky spotted bass, northern spotted bass, Alabama spotted bass, Wichita spotted bass, black bass, smallmouth bass and spot.
DESCRIPTION - Is similar in appearance to the largemouth bass. Has green to olive-green hue; white, mottled belly; and a broad stripe of broken blotches, usually diamond-shaped, along the midline of the body. Unlike the largemouth, the spotted bass has scales on the base portion of the second dorsal fin; its first and second dorsal fin are clearly connected, and its upper jaw does not extend past the eye. Above the lateral line there are dark markings, and below the lateral line the scales have dark bases that give rise to the linear rows of small spots which are responsible for the common name
Black da lo, this Kentucky Bass is a hybrid between Stripped Bass and the Largemouth Bass. The one here is a hybrid between LM & SM. IT's not a cross between a Stripper nor a Silver Bass. It came from Rice Lake, there's no Stripper nor Silver there.
Well it seems Kentucky is a species of it's own...with coloration of a LM but smaller mouth as a SM...resembling those we see swimming in the fish tanks at some super markets..
Used to nail some LM mid-lake at Rice with very distinctive bar markings on their head like those we found on SM...they put up better fights too...didn't realise they have a mean-mouth though (only found they are MEAN when they're spitting lure at you
Would surely like to see some official documents by the MNR
Any report about their existence in other Kawartha lakes?
BDL, I did called up the MNR in Peterborough office. Neither the receptionist nor the officer could tell me the name. They said they'll pass the msg. to the Biologist and somebody would call me back. Like what the bankers said, nobody ever returned my call. So I approached Blinky for help.
Those LM you caught in mid Rice Lake had distinctive bars on their heads. This one here has bars in the lower half of the body. The head is 100% SM.
Meanmouth Bass
Originally, a cross bred between a largemouth bass and a smallmouth bass was called a meanmouth bass. Now a meanmouth bass is a smallmouth x spotted bass hybrid. The meanmouth is a more aggressive, tough fighting bass than its other cousins.
Click below link for photo of a Meanmouth Bass. Hard to identify as it looks like a Smallmouth
http://www.tnfish.org/PhotoGalleryFish_TWRA/FishPhotoGallery_TWRA/pages/MeanmouthBassHybridSmallmouthSpottedNorrisNegus_jpg.htm
Click below link for photo of what is believed to be a Meanmouth Bass
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Fishing-1634/2009/4/type-fish-1.htm
Meanmouth Bass Articles
http://www.catfish1.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-16061.html
http://www.fishin.com/articles/meanmouth.htm
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/InNews/meanmouth2004.html
http://www.customfish.com/2007/05/meanmouth-bass.html
Blinky
Thanks Blinky
Your quick response is really appreciated. Many thanks.
The first link said the hybrids are hard to ID. But the one I saw is very unique. The skull is 100% SM. Body wise, the top is a LM but the bottom is a SM. With very distinctive SM bars pattern.
Different than a SM, the colour on the body didn't turn darker after coming out of the lake.
Typical of a hybrid - strong and aggressive.
They have a proper name...Kentucky Bass
DESCRIPTION - Is similar in appearance to the largemouth bass. Has green to olive-green hue; white, mottled belly; and a broad stripe of broken blotches, usually diamond-shaped, along the midline of the body. Unlike the largemouth, the spotted bass has scales on the base portion of the second dorsal fin; its first and second dorsal fin are clearly connected, and its upper jaw does not extend past the eye. Above the lateral line there are dark markings, and below the lateral line the scales have dark bases that give rise to the linear rows of small spots which are responsible for the common name
Is this the same?
Black da lo, this Kentucky Bass is a hybrid between Stripped Bass and the Largemouth Bass. The one here is a hybrid between LM & SM. IT's not a cross between a Stripper nor a Silver Bass. It came from Rice Lake, there's no Stripper nor Silver there.
Well it seems Kentucky is a species of it's own
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_bass
Well it seems Kentucky is a species of it's own...with coloration of a LM but smaller mouth as a SM...resembling those we see swimming in the fish tanks at some super markets..
Used to nail some LM mid-lake at Rice with very distinctive bar markings on their head like those we found on SM...they put up better fights too...didn't realise they have a mean-mouth though
(only found they are MEAN when they're spitting lure at you
Would surely like to see some official documents by the MNR
Any report about their existence in other Kawartha lakes?
Called the MNR
BDL, I did called up the MNR in Peterborough office. Neither the receptionist nor the officer could tell me the name. They said they'll pass the msg. to the Biologist and somebody would call me back. Like what the bankers said, nobody ever returned my call. So I approached Blinky for help.
Those LM you caught in mid Rice Lake had distinctive bars on their heads. This one here has bars in the lower half of the body. The head is 100% SM.
>>Like what the bankers said,
>>Like what the bankers said, nobody ever returned my call
Very funny to me. Espeically these days. Financial Advisor are crazy...
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