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Title: Ever seen a bass like this?
Post by: HunterStrait on August 24, 2015, 01:11:41 AM: Smallmouth.

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Forig13.deviantart.net%2Fb0b7%2Ff%2F2015%2F236%2Fa%2F1%2Funtitled_by_hunterstrait-d96y275.jpg&hash=35c9b8cff1f471635209467a39cee6a5415b6726)
Title: Re: Ever seen a bass like this?
Post by: DoubleJ on August 24, 2015, 06:24:12 AM: Pretty cool looking. Might consider a mount?
Title: Re: Ever seen a bass like this?
Post by: h20hunter on August 24, 2015, 07:42:14 AM: Never...I've caught thousands of largemouth growing up and my share of smallmouth but never seen one like that. Did you keep it? Freeze and provide to WDFW to see whats up?
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Post by: Woodchuck on August 24, 2015, 07:52:24 AM: :yeah:
Title: Re: Ever seen a bass like this?
Post by: HUNT-HARD on August 24, 2015, 09:46:54 AM: Used to catch them like that in the deeper water of the Columbia River all the time. I always figured they were just darker from living in the deeper water.
Title: Re: Ever seen a bass like this?
Post by: baker5150 on August 24, 2015, 10:10:01 AM: Hanford Bass?

How many eyes did it have? Could it talk?
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Post by: erk444 on August 24, 2015, 10:24:10 AM: Could be melanistic?
Title: Re: Ever seen a bass like this?
Post by: HunterStrait on August 24, 2015, 12:39:39 PM: Quote from: DoubleJ on August 24, 2015, 06:24:12 AM
Pretty cool looking. Might consider a mount?

I got the length and the girth of the fish, and plenty of pictures.
Title: Re: Ever seen a bass like this?
Post by: WapitiTalk1 on August 24, 2015, 12:53:09 PM: Quote from: baker5150 on August 24, 2015, 10:10:01 AM
Hanford Bass? How many eyes did it have? Could it talk?

:chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Ever seen a bass like this?
Post by: JimmyHoffa on August 24, 2015, 12:54:52 PM: looks like it wants to be a sea bass
Title: Re: Ever seen a bass like this?
Post by: bassquatch on August 24, 2015, 06:41:30 PM: Quote from: HUNT-HARD on August 24, 2015, 09:46:54 AM
Used to catch them like that in the deeper water of the Columbia River all the time. I always figured they were just darker from living in the deeper water.

Bass (small and largemouth) tend to darken up in shallow water and lighten up in the deeper stuff.

That's a crazy looking bass for sure! :tup:
Title: Re: Ever seen a bass like this?
Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on August 25, 2015, 10:27:25 AM: Quote
Bass (small and largemouth) tend to darken up in shallow water and lighten up in the deeper stuff.
?
I have seen it the other way, lighten up in shallow water to blend in better, fish in shadows, or deeper water will be darker.
Natural color change is part of their natural ability as a predator.
If you put both of them in your live well for long enough, they would come out looking the same (other than size)
Title: Re: Ever seen a bass like this?
Post by: bassquatch on August 26, 2015, 02:21:52 PM: Quote from: STIKNSTRINGBOW on August 25, 2015, 10:27:25 AM
Quote
Bass (small and largemouth) tend to darken up in shallow water and lighten up in the deeper stuff.
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I have seen it the other way, lighten up in shallow water to blend in better, fish in shadows, or deeper water will be darker.
Natural color change is part of their natural ability as a predator.
If you put both of them in your live well for long enough, they would come out looking the same (other than size)

Water clarity plays a big part as well.
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Post by: ATM green head machine on August 27, 2015, 10:17:33 AM: some how an old black bass? :dunno: just a guess though
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Post by: MountainWalk on August 27, 2015, 10:27:13 AM: Caught lots of small mouth from i-90bridge to Seward park on lake Washington that would show dark blotches and darker coloration. Mostly 8-15ft of water. Nothing wrong with that fish. Glad you tossed him back. Smallmouth grow sooo much slower than the rest of the fish around them. And the egg nest are super vulnerable to the dog chase the stick thing. Think small mouth are my fave. Lord I usta hammer them. Ten fish day was common.