Whichever, it reminds me of this...

 

That's strange Darren, I don't see the resemblance between a fish and a swallow.

8 minutes ago, Molay1292 said:

That's strange Darren, I don't see the resemblance between a fish and a swallow.

Never said resemblance, LOL...

"Reminds" ... humorous, what kind of fish is this?

Looks like a baby bass, looks like a baby striped bass...

African swallow, European swallow debate...fish debate,
both debates...oh nevermind.

Maybe I'm the only one who can relate the humor.

1 hour ago, Darren. said:

Never said resemblance, LOL...

"Reminds" ... humorous, what kind of fish is this?

Looks like a baby bass, looks like a baby striped bass...

African swallow, European swallow debate...fish debate,
both debates...oh nevermind.

Maybe I'm the only one who can relate the humor.

Just messing with you, I knew what you meant.  

It's a baby largemouth bass. Bass will get that purplish tint to them in colder water. 

On 3/10/2016 at 3:38 PM, Turtle135 said:

that is a largemouth bass

since we are playing this game, make a guess on this one:

 

Yellow perch? 

14 hours ago, Darren. said:

Whichever, it reminds me of this...

 

Nice, now I feel like a troll guarding a bridge...

"what is your favorite color?"

On 10 de marzo de 2016 at 4:46 PM, Avalonjohn44 said:

This little guy jumped right into the bank trying to escape something today. Don't recognize it. Any ideas? Its back was a lot more purple in real life...

 

 

That ain´t no "minnow", that´s a baby bass.

Fyi striped, white, and hybrids are not even in the same "family" as black bass... And look nothing like them when juvies. They look more the shape of a shad or bluegill, whereas a black bass has the long minnow-like shape with a big flat tail. 

On 3/9/2016 at 5:46 PM, Avalonjohn44 said:

This little guy jumped right into the bank trying to escape something today. Don't recognize it. Any ideas? Its back was a lot more purple in real life...

 

 

Only reason I know what it is is cause I catch them that size 

Pygocentrus nattereri ~ Invasive

A-Jay

 

looks like this lunker

Ok, I had enough with the bragging contest, there you go, I win !

 

That's a LMB. I would have guessed SMB if not for how far back the jawline extends. 

Does anyone think they can identify This fish?? Found this little guy while smallie fishing a river in michigan

 

Some kind of stoneroller would be my guess. Probably too big for a dace and its not any kind of panfish/game fish. Search through the native minnows, daces, and stonerollers for the area it was found. 

3 hours ago, WestMichiganBass said:

Does anyone think they can identify This fish?? Found this little guy while smallie fishing a river in michigan

 

That's a darter -a percid (Percidae), meaning in the perch/walleye family. I'm guessing it's a logperch (Percina caprodes).

On 3/10/2016 at 4:38 PM, Turtle135 said:

that is a largemouth bass

since we are playing this game, make a guess on this one:

 

yellow perch or bluegill

Neither. It is familiar but the group isn't coming to me. I think it's a coastal (brackish/marine) species.

On 3/12/2016 at 6:25 PM, Molay1292 said:

That's strange Darren, I don't see the resemblance between a fish and a swallow.

What do you mean?  An African or a European swallow?

I was recently looking at hard baits on line somewhere and there was a bait that looked exactly that pattern and color and was listed as "baby bass."  I thought of this thread immediately.  If I had not seen that photo of the little purple-backed bass, I certainly would have wondered why the heck they made a "baby bass" bait with that color.

Tight lines,

Bob

I've never seen a bass with that coloration, but young bluegills have that exact coloration: purple back, blue sides, and yellow-orange "breast" (pectoral region). I find that interesting. There is a good reason for it.

2 hours ago, Paul Roberts said:

I've never seen a bass with that coloration, but young bluegills have that exact coloration: purple back, blue sides, and yellow-orange "breast" (pectoral region). I find that interesting. There is a good reason for it.

 Centrarchidae?

That's part of it. But there is likely something ecological too. That's why I had asked the OP'er about the water body.

On 3/11/2016 at 4:50 PM, Paul Roberts said:

Wow. Neat coloration. It's a bass. I believe it's a largemouth. Morpology checks out. It doesn't appear to be a spot. Definitely not a smallmouth.

I've never seen coloration like that -in a bass. Is this pond clear of aquatic vegetation? Any cover at all?

Totally missed the question.  There's a lot of coontail, a little bit of early string algae, but other than that, not much in the way of above water cover. Water was stained greenish brown, visibility was maybe twelve inches.

I stocked tens of thousands of those little critters when I worked at SEPESCA, you can trust when I say it's a baby bass, actually it's a LMB baby.