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Yeah I am thinking smallmouth, kinda washed out looking.Originally Posted by ECobb91
Yep, same here
It's a smallmouth but you will get guesses of everything from a rock bass to a red-eyed largemouth.
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Did we ever get the correct ID?
It was 9lb, 7 oz and almost a Lake St. Clair record.
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Looks like a Smallmouth to me, I have caught several in WV streams that didn't have the "normal" vertical striped Smallmouth pattern.
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Looks like a smallmouth to me. I have caught some of those and called it a smallmouth. I have never caught a smallmouth that looked like you see in most pictures that people post.
If I caught that, the last thing I would think of was taking a picture.
The guy took a picture because the closest water with smallmouth is 200 miles away. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of a random one being caught anywhere on the Tallapoosa, Coosa or Alabama Rivers. If somebody just chunked “one” in there it would be unlikely that it would ever be caught for anyone to know.
Not from around there, looks like a dink smallmouth to me.
Smallmouth in the lakes around here are varied in their coloring and we have a lot of spotted bass/smallmouth hybrids (meanmouth) so you see all kinds of color variations.
The problem with this particular fish being a mean mouth is that there has to be a spawning population of smallmouth in the lake and if that's the case then there would probably be catchable smallmouth in the lake already and nobody has seen smallmouth in that lake...We catch smallmouth along the Tennessee River that aren't patterned for lack of a better term all the time with red eyes like this but sometimes they're in dirty water or colder water but Martin is a deep crystal clear lake and it's just odd that this fish was caught there... Surprising to me?? no, not at all...I'm kind of surprised that his deep and clean as Martin is and even Smith lake is that someone hasn't taken some Tennessee River smallmouth and put in that lake as well...
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Yeah I agree that it is an unusual color, I don't think that it is a meanmouth myself either. I catch some bass on Table Rock that look like that fish except they have a greenish/gray look to them, kind of like a spotted bass except with out the lateral line, I'm guessing that they are some kind of hybrid but they don't look at all what I think a spotted bass/smallie hybrid should look like.
Perhaps it was born a largemouth, and began to identify as a smallmouth later in life.
The resulting changes are observable in the photo.
It certainly looks like a smallmouth, but the background doesn’t look like Lake Martin at all.
I was starting to type how could you possibly question a lake based on the tiny bit in the picture, then I saw your screen named and realized you probably know every square inch of that lake.
Nothing in the picture makes me think meanmouth. It’s a smallmouth.
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