Anyone know what the two black spots on this otherwise healthy looking spot might be?  Just above the gill cover and at the front of the base of the soft dorsal fin.  Freckles?  Fish AIDS?  WTH?

Fish tattoo

It's a pigmentation thing that fish get often in the spring. I've heard it's a sign of a healthy lake and every time I've seen it has been in lakes with good populations. Your spot also appears to be a LM. 

I get 'em mixed up all the time.  In that particular location, 90% of the ones we catch are spots, and many of the "LMB's" have the rough patch on the tongue, continuous dorsal fins, etc. 

Good look in' heathy bass.  Now, if he was trying to blend in with the shad in the lake...

2 hours ago, J._Bricker said:

Good look in' heathy bass.  Now, if he was trying to blend in with the shad in the lake...

He wants to look like a big gizzard shad so baitfish don't feel threatened