Fishermen! Help me identify this fish!

[NTB]

Northern Rock Bass

Nathan

 

[Doodoo]

Definately not a striper...my guess would be either rock bass or a sun bass.

Red Eyed Bass

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
crappies are rounder.

They're also different colors - either predominantly white or black, and they don't have red eyes like that.

Nathan

 

[DefDC]

Originally posted by: NTB

Originally posted by: meltdown75
crappies are rounder.

They're also different colors - either predominantly white or black, and they don't have red eyes like that.

Nathan

FWIW. here's a crappie.


Not a record, for sure, but the best one I've ever caught.

 

[meltdown75]

anyhoo... i want to go fishing now.

 

[DefDC]

Dammit.. I'm gonna call it a Red-eyed Rock Bass and be done with it!

 

[BillGates]

I caught you a delicious bass.

 

[amicold]

Originally posted by: DefDC
I normally catch bluegill and largemouth, but I can't figure out what kind of fish this is.

Fishy!

Doing a brief Google search, it seems that it could be a Red Eye Bass, Spotted Bass, or Smallmouth. I'm unfamiliar with those, and I can't find any good pics. I caught two of them with medium sized cranks, in about 15' of water in southern Michigan. (Diamond Lake)

They both had blood red eyes, and small bass-like mouthes.

Any help?


Update:

Second Bass

Appears to be a rock bass! Great reseach guys!

Link, thanks to NTB!

First thing I thought of was Rock Bass, and I don't even fish. Not popular around you?

 

[DefDC]

I guess not. I used to fish in mostly ponds and small lakes. Must be a fish that common to bigger lakes.

I like catching new fish!

 

[fisheerman]

Where in the country were you fishing?

Some of the lake impoundments have what is known as hybrid stripped bass(rock fish).


this looks like what you have caught. I know in the local lakes around here we have the hybrid strippers that can't reproduce. this is by design so they don't overpopulate the lakes and eat all the other fish.

I'm betting hybrid........

-fish

 

[jpetermann]

Originally posted by: fisheerman
we have the hybrid strippers that can't reproduce. this is by design so they don't overpopulate

I know he did not mean to mis spell it, but this is hilarious

 

[spaceman]

thats a rock bass
they are fairly(very) common in my neck of the woods.

 

[SagaLore]

Its a Rock Bass.

 

[DefDC]

Not that I doubted anyone, but my buddy found a definitive link, red eyes and all! Thanks for your help everyone!

Fishy link

 

[Looney]

Yeah, rock bass... they're very common in small bodies of water. Difficulty to eat though, way too many small bones.

 

[SlowSpyder]

They're called "rock bass" around here. They are actually members of the sunfish family (blue gills, etc). Not sure if they are called rock bass everywhere. I catch them all the time, sometimes on worms while fishing for panfish, and I had one in the local harbor on Lake Michigan take my 1/2oz spoon when I was fishing for salmon.

http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/g...kesfish/frockbass.html