Hello Bass Lovers, 

 

Need a little help identifying the fish in the picture. I'm having trouble making a definitive identification and could use some input. Cheers. 

 

- Fuzzy

Looks like a rock bass.

Agreed

 

Many different nicknames....

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warmouth

 

Darn things keep taking the tails off any curly tail worms around here...Swing and a miss!

 

Welcome aboard!

 

I'll let the others "decide" though based on Google Images,

it may be a ... rock bass  

Caught about 100 of them this week up here in the Adirondacks...

Rock bass. Lots of them in the Missouri Ozarks

Google Eye

Definitely not a rock bass, warmouth. They're different species altogether. 

22 minutes ago, Drew03cmc said:

Definitely not a rock bass, warmouth. They're different species altogether. 

What makes you say it's a warmouth and not a rock bass?

9 hours ago, tander said:

Google Eye

I Googled eye  and didnt see anything relating to fish . 

It's a oogly boogly eye aka (Rock bass)

19 minutes ago, Scott F said:

What makes you say it's a warmouth and not a rock bass?

Well, considering ambloplites rupestris does not have any of the mottling and that lepomis gulosis does, means I lean warmouth. Rock bass normally have rows of spots, no mottling.

 

https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/war/

 

http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Ambloplites_rupestris/

Definitely a warmouth. Mean fish. 

The identifier that matters we can't see; anal fin with 3 spines is warmouth, 6 spines is rock bass, 2 different species, coloration varies with locale.

Tom

This looks nothing like any rock bass I’ve ever caught. And I’ve caught a million. 

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

I Googled eye  and didnt see anything relating to fish . 

Oops, Goggle eye ?

I don't believe I've ever seen a google eye or rock bass with the war paint on the cheeks like a warmouth has. It's pretty dull on the OP's fish, but it's there. I usually see it a little more pronounced on the ones I catch.

It's a female Warmouth (Lepomis gulosus), the male has brighter colors.

 

Other Names

Redeye, Goggle-eye, Red-eyed Bream, Stump Knocker, Mudgapper, Mo-mouth, Morgan, Molly, Rock Bass, Open Mouth, Weed Bass, Wood Bass, Strawberry "perch", Mud Bass, Warmouth Bass

 

https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/war/

 

 

^^^warmouth^^^, clearly has 2 anal fin spins, 3rd is there not easy to see, but definately not 6! Good photo.

Tom

Those pictures are of females, notice the coloration.

 

Below are males, notice the brighter coloration.

 

 

18 hours ago, scaleface said:

I Googled eye  and didnt see anything relating to fish . 

Same here.

Is this a warmouth?  That’s what I’ve always called them.  I burnt through 2 20 packs of trickworms on Saturday because of them. 

 

 

 

 

Down south they're called Goggle-eye Perch

 

@Dom Hendricks & @Bluebasser86

 

It's hard to tell what those are because I can't see fins!

2 hours ago, EGbassing said:

Same here.

Look up "Goggle Eye" fish.

Tom

Different fish but I think it’s the same species @Catt