I have caught a couple out of the Ohio upriver of Louisville. Pretty rare to encounter though. I have heard of a few coming out of some of the larger creeks that are known for smallmouth as well. Cool fish. The ones I have caught have been small but pull like a truck.

Search Shoal Bass, very similar if not the...........

They get caught at Table Rock a lot, only place I've ever caught one. I've only caught one and it was oddly enough the only fish I could get to eat an A rig that day. Thankfully there was a long time guide fishing close by to confirm it was what I thought it was. Unfortunately I got one picture with my cheap digital camera and it turned out pretty poorly but you can still see the unique markings on it.

Pretty sure it's a mean mouth

thats just your average run of the mill smallmouth.... maybe its slightly bigger than most where you fish but it is a pure smallmouth no doubt about that.

Am I the only one that's disappointed that we don't call them Regular Mouth Bass?

I've heard people on the three rivers in pittsburgh talk about catching a regular mouth bass and laugh about it once.   i assume they were talking about the same thing we are.  made me chuckle once i realized what they were probably talking about

i read an online article that talked about mean mouth-had that picture....

So I screen shot it and sent it over

"maybe its slightly bigger than most where you fish "

lmao no comment

Missouri state record, I think the guy caught it in 2003

 

I have caught a couple while fishing Pickwick lake. I fish it a lot over the last 5 years and have caught only 2. Mix between spot and small mouth. One was small the other about 2 lbs

Our very own Fish Chris may have caught the World Record meanmouth:

 

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=meanmouth+hybrid+bass&id=BF9CA74D2BB197A60CDAF0639566ABDA370FFBE9&FORM=IQFRBA#view=detail&id=BF9CA74D2BB197A60CDAF0639566ABDA370FFBE9&selectedIndex=0

Uhh, that's a smallmouth.

A friend of mine caught a meanmouth bass during a tournament in Keuka Lake, may be the same guy that duckmaster is refering to.  Was he from flower city bassmasters?  He took a picture of the fish on his phone and it was indeed a meanmouth. He had it verified with DEC, not sure if he kept it and brought it to them or if he showed them the picture. 

It looked just like the pictures of a meanmouth bass on the internet.  However I don't think there are any spotted bass in keuka lake... so maybe it was a different breed of meanmouth... Largemouth mixed with smallmouth??

They are fairly common in Table Rock, it's not unusual to catch one or two a day.  But I've never caught one over 2 lbs.

It looked just like the pictures of a meanmouth bass on the internet.  However I don't think there are any spotted bass in keuka lake... so maybe it was a different breed of meanmouth... Largemouth mixed with smallmouth??

 

It was just a deep water largemouth.  It was just a cell phone pic.  Nothing for the DEC to verify.

Here you go.....so called "mean mouth"

 

You don't think there is such a thing as a mean mouth? Or you dont think they exist around here?

I have yet to see anything that looks like a hybrid. Since there are no spotted bass, that isn't possible either. Obviously, lmb x smb have been created in a lab. Spots are well known to interbreed in nature, but their range doesn't extend this far north.

Besides, the meanmouth claim is from North Ponds. No smallmouth there.

Yea and I'm still married to it!!!

Ha, beat me too it. Only I threw mine back!

www.fishsniffer.com/ckellog/070416pardee.html or CA state record Smallmouth Bass search.

Story of Fish Chris lake Pardee smallmouth.

Tom

I have yet to see anything that looks like a hybrid. Since there are no spotted bass, that isn't possible either. Obviously, lmb x smb have been created in a lab. Spots are well known to interbreed in nature, but their range doesn't extend this far north.

Fair enough.

I think Mitch had something as well.  That may have been the Keuka fish - rings a bell now.  But that fish just looked like a bland or sick smallmouth. Never "patterned up" in the livewell.

I caught a mean case of something but penicillin cleared it right up!

I caught a mean case of something but penicillin cleared it right up!

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There's a small river that has all 3 species with limited fishing pressure near our property. We used to catch quite a few "mutt" bass, usually quite small...My uncle did catch a 4lb range smallmouth with a baseball sized mouth once, even as a uninformed kid I couldnt believe it.