I caught this today.

 

https://forums.ozarkanglers.com/topic/72747-what-do-you-think/?tab=comments#comment-655270

How do you tell a hybrid from the others?

1 hour ago, schplurg said:

How do you tell a hybrid from the others?

It just takes seeing a lot of them, practice makes perfect like anything else. There are several determining characteristics and only a DNA test proves exactly what you’ve got. 
 

nice fish jig man 

I’ve never seen one so I couldn’t tell you. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn, saved some $$ by switching to Geico and must say, nice bass!

Nice catch.... what did you catch it on, and color?

47 minutes ago, GRiver said:

Nice catch.... what did you catch it on, and color?

It was caught at Stockton Lake in SWMO.  It was on a secondary point in about 3 feet of water.  I caught it on a Ned rig, New Money TRD.  It weighed 4.25 #.  That is the largest one for me so far.  They are pretty rare.  I only catch 2 or 3 a year.  

Nice catching!

  I would probably mistake it for a big spot .

39 minutes ago, scaleface said:

  I would probably mistake it for a big spot .

You wouldn’t on Stockton.  Spots rarely live long enough to get to 15 inches down there.  They are also pretty rare.  In the last three trips we have caught over 100 bass and not a single spot in the bunch.

12 hours ago, Jig Man said:

I caught it on a Ned rig, New Money TRD.

 

Love that color.

On 6/5/2021 at 2:46 PM, scaleface said:

  I would probably mistake it for a big spot .

I'd of thought I had a big Shoal bass.

Looks like a meanmouth to me. I caught one last time I was at Stockton also. 

wow! never seen one before, looks like a largemouth with brown coloring instead of green, beautiful!

Whichever strain, straight up beautiful fish!

I’ve never heard of a spotted bass or mean mouth (are they the same thing?) before. Only largemouth, smallmouth, and rock bass here in upstate NY that I know of at least. 

On 6/7/2021 at 9:21 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

Looks like a meanmouth to me. I caught one last time I was at Stockton also. 

This a good photo that shows all the needed physical characteristics; dorsal fin 8 spines and connected like a Smallmouth, jaw  hinge even with but not defined the eye, no scales on the base of the tail and no large dark spot, of no spotted scale rows below the lateral line. Nice coloration, good looking bass.

Tom

On 6/7/2021 at 11:21 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

Looks like a meanmouth to me. I caught one last time I was at Stockton also. 

Clayton yours is a lot prettier than mine.  Mine was just plain butt ugly.

3 hours ago, David 7 said:

I’ve never heard of a spotted bass or mean mouth (are they the same thing?) before. Only largemouth, smallmouth, and rock bass here in upstate NY that I know of at least. 

We have largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass.  The meanmouth is a hybrid that had started showing up in some of our lakes.  They can be a smallmouth/spotted cross or a smallmouth/largemouth cross.

32 minutes ago, Jig Man said:

They can be a smallmouth/spotted cross or a smallmouth/largemouth cross.

 

Dont know if this has been posted already,

 

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2021/05/texas-fishermans-meanmouth-bass-catch-is-a-world-record

RoadWarrior caught one a couple of weeks ago on the Tennessee River below Pickwick dam on a minnow.