Ever Caught A Meanmouth?

[McAlpine]

I have caught a couple out of the Ohio upriver of Louisville. Pretty rare to encounter though. I have heard of a few coming out of some of the larger creeks that are known for smallmouth as well. Cool fish. The ones I have caught have been small but pull like a truck.

[Tmpr]

Search Shoal Bass, very similar if not the...........

[Bluebasser86]

They get caught at Table Rock a lot, only place I've ever caught one. I've only caught one and it was oddly enough the only fish I could get to eat an A rig that day. Thankfully there was a long time guide fishing close by to confirm it was what I thought it was. Unfortunately I got one picture with my cheap digital camera and it turned out pretty poorly but you can still see the unique markings on it.

[robdob]

Pretty sure it's a mean mouth

thats just your average run of the mill smallmouth.... maybe its slightly bigger than most where you fish but it is a pure smallmouth no doubt about that.

[robdob]

Am I the only one that's disappointed that we don't call them Regular Mouth Bass?

I've heard people on the three rivers in pittsburgh talk about catching a regular mouth bass and laugh about it once.   i assume they were talking about the same thing we are.  made me chuckle once i realized what they were probably talking about

[tytay89]

i read an online article that talked about mean mouth-had that picture....

So I screen shot it and sent it over

"maybe its slightly bigger than most where you fish "

lmao no comment

[cbass12]

Missouri state record, I think the guy caught it in 2003

 

[GREENPUMPKIN]

I have caught a couple while fishing Pickwick lake. I fish it a lot over the last 5 years and have caught only 2. Mix between spot and small mouth. One was small the other about 2 lbs

[roadwarrior]

Our very own Fish Chris may have caught the World Record meanmouth:

 

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=meanmouth+hybrid+bass&id=BF9CA74D2BB197A60CDAF0639566ABDA370FFBE9&FORM=IQFRBA#view=detail&id=BF9CA74D2BB197A60CDAF0639566ABDA370FFBE9&selectedIndex=0

[J Francho]

Uhh, that's a smallmouth.

[patbfishing123]

A friend of mine caught a meanmouth bass during a tournament in Keuka Lake, may be the same guy that duckmaster is refering to.  Was he from flower city bassmasters?  He took a picture of the fish on his phone and it was indeed a meanmouth. He had it verified with DEC, not sure if he kept it and brought it to them or if he showed them the picture. 

[patbfishing123]

It looked just like the pictures of a meanmouth bass on the internet.  However I don't think there are any spotted bass in keuka lake... so maybe it was a different breed of meanmouth... Largemouth mixed with smallmouth??

[Quillback]

They are fairly common in Table Rock, it's not unusual to catch one or two a day.  But I've never caught one over 2 lbs.

[J Francho]

It looked just like the pictures of a meanmouth bass on the internet.  However I don't think there are any spotted bass in keuka lake... so maybe it was a different breed of meanmouth... Largemouth mixed with smallmouth??

 

It was just a deep water largemouth.  It was just a cell phone pic.  Nothing for the DEC to verify.

[J Francho]

Here you go.....so called "mean mouth"

 

[patbfishing123]

You don't think there is such a thing as a mean mouth? Or you dont think they exist around here?

[J Francho]

I have yet to see anything that looks like a hybrid. Since there are no spotted bass, that isn't possible either. Obviously, lmb x smb have been created in a lab. Spots are well known to interbreed in nature, but their range doesn't extend this far north.

[J Francho]

Besides, the meanmouth claim is from North Ponds. No smallmouth there.

[Delaware Valley Tackle]

Yea and I'm still married to it!!!

Ha, beat me too it. Only I threw mine back!

[WRB]

www.fishsniffer.com/ckellog/070416pardee.html or CA state record Smallmouth Bass search.

Story of Fish Chris lake Pardee smallmouth.

Tom

[patbfishing123]

I have yet to see anything that looks like a hybrid. Since there are no spotted bass, that isn't possible either. Obviously, lmb x smb have been created in a lab. Spots are well known to interbreed in nature, but their range doesn't extend this far north.

Fair enough.

[J Francho]

I think Mitch had something as well.  That may have been the Keuka fish - rings a bell now.  But that fish just looked like a bland or sick smallmouth. Never "patterned up" in the livewell.

[Ratherbfishing]

I caught a mean case of something but penicillin cleared it right up!

[J Francho]

I caught a mean case of something but penicillin cleared it right up!

http://www.hiyoooo.com/

[craww]

There's a small river that has all 3 species with limited fishing pressure near our property. We used to catch quite a few "mutt" bass, usually quite small...My uncle did catch a 4lb range smallmouth with a baseball sized mouth once, even as a uninformed kid I couldnt believe it.