Bass With Red Eyes???

[OroBass]

what kind of bass are these

[RoLo]

If you were fishing the Coosa River drainage (north Florida / south Georgia)

they could be "redeye bass", which is a separate species of black bass.

Beyond that it could be smallmouth bass or rock bass, but I'd really need a photograph.

 

Roger

[Canyon explorer]

I have seen Smallmouth and Meanmouth bass at Bull Shoals Ark. with red eyes. Sweet fish.

[MIbassyaker]

smallmouth and rock bass have reddish eyes.

[LuckyGia]

Rock bass. How big was it ?

[OroBass]

12 inches or so

[MIbassyaker]

12" would be a pretty big rock bass, possibly trophy-sized.

[OroBass]

I dont think its a rock bass

[corn-on-the-rob]

Smallmouth commonly have red eyes in certain areas. Likely just a run of the mill smallie.

[Tylertut]

Yep, probably a smallmouth. Most of them around me have red eyes, I feel like the smaller ones (where a 12" one would fall) usually do more than the larger ones but that may be because I catch more smaller ones.

[Paul Roberts]

LM can have red eyes at times too. There was recently a thread on it.

[RoLo]

LM can have red eyes at times too.

 

Those are the heavy drinkers

[Paul Roberts]

Here 'tis:

 

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/122013-ever-seen-a-bass-with-red-eyes/page-3

[Bluebasser86]

Spotted bass, 

smallie

largemouth

[OroBass]

thanks blue basser^^^^ why would one largmouth have red eyes and another black?

[OroBass]

and what swim bait is that

[WRB]

The LMB photo looks a lot like a spotted bass, the dorsal fin is connected.

Orville has several bass specie including Shoal bass that have red eyes.

Tom

[Jd_Phillips_Fishin]

LMB don't have the red eyes but the spots have them regularly 

[gobig]

If your getting them on oroville its most likely a meanmouth which is a cross between a spot and a smallie.

[Bluebasser86]

and what swim bait is that

That's a Dep's Slide Swimmer 175

 

The LMB photo looks a lot like a spotted bass, the dorsal fin is connected.

Orville has several bass specie including Shoal bass that have red eyes.

Tom

No spotted bass in the lake it was caught from. Very few spotted bass anywhere in Kansas in fact. 

 

LMB don't have the red eyes but the spots have them regularly 

Take a look at page 1 and you can see a picture of a largemouth with red eyes  . That fish was from April this year at a lake in Kansas.

[Bluebasser86]

Largemouth bass from a farm pond.

LM from a powerplant lake

Another PP largemouth

Same place

Beaver Lake LM

 

 

What I'm saying is, largemouth can most certainly have red eyes, just like smallmouth and spots. 

[WRB]

I don't recall seeing LMB with red eyes out west, smallmouth and spotted yes.

The photos clearly show LMB with red eyes !

Tom

[Jd_Phillips_Fishin]

Hmm, I was wrong on that one

[BasscatcherPB:12IB]

They have red eyes because there getting ready to spawn and thats when I usually see them have red eyes.

[Alex from GA]

First WRB I'm under the impression Shoal Bass are only in GA and FL.  The fish I'm holding is a Shoal Bass from the Chattahoochee River in GA.  Some years ago the so called Redeye Bass were broken down into several different species; Shoal, Bartram, Redeye, Chattahoochee, Tallapoosa, etc and they all have their own territory.  I have seen all these and LM, spots and smallmouth with red eyes.