Smallmouth?  

 

Yep, it's a very nice smallmouth. A Largemouth's jaw extends at least to the eye and sometimes farther.

Looks like a spot. Definitely not a smallmouth.

hard to tell from the pic but it looks like a smallie to me too.

Did it have a tooth patch on it's tongue?

 

4 minutes ago, flyfisher said:

hard to tell from the pic but it looks like a smallie to me too.

Did it have a tooth patch on it's tongue?

 

Dont recall... sounds like that's a surefire way to tell though...?

Spot. 

It's not a smallie, it has a lateral line

It's not a largie, it has a smallie's mouth

 

It has to be a spot

Spotted bass.

Beginning to sounds like we have a consensus...  Must be a Spot!  Thanks guys!

That is not a smallmouth! To be 100% honest, it looks like a meanmouh (spot x smallie)

 

 

It's a .........

meanmouth

It's a chunky little bass......duh

It does look like a meanmouth, I had never heard of them before.

To me it looks like another species of fish that is gonna cost me thousands of dollars in gear to catch. I'm in!

It doesn't look brown.  I would say a spot.

15 hours ago, Kevin22 said:

That is not a smallmouth! To be 100% honest, it looks like a meanmouh (spot x smallie)

 

 

How I´m not surprised to see Fish Chris holding that monster meanmouth ?

OP, where was the fish caught? I agree that it does look a bit like a meanmouth and they do occur naturally in some lakes in Missouri. I've only ever caught 1 but I've seen several caught at Table Rock and I couldn't have gotten a much worse picture of it.

Yea was thinking mean mouth for sure 

On 3/20/2016 at 2:05 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

OP, where was the fish caught? I agree that it does look a bit like a meanmouth and they do occur naturally in some lakes in Missouri. I've only ever caught 1 but I've seen several caught at Table Rock and I couldn't have gotten a much worse picture of it.

 

I caught this at Simpson Lake in Valley Park.  Technically I didn't catch it in the lake, but in the creek that feeds back into the Meramec river, just past the dam.

Could be a meanmouth? I have caught two in my life and both of them were in MO. Never caught a SM in it but the Meramac is full of spotted bass (and flatheads).

Allen