What type of Bass am I holding here?

[Loochy88]

Smallmouth?  

 

[IndianaFinesse]

Yep, it's a very nice smallmouth. A Largemouth's jaw extends at least to the eye and sometimes farther.

[Jar11591]

Looks like a spot. Definitely not a smallmouth.

[flyfisher]

hard to tell from the pic but it looks like a smallie to me too.

Did it have a tooth patch on it's tongue?

 

[Loochy88]

4 minutes ago, flyfisher said:

hard to tell from the pic but it looks like a smallie to me too.

Did it have a tooth patch on it's tongue?

 

Dont recall... sounds like that's a surefire way to tell though...?

[newriverfisherman1953]

Spot. 

[tomustang]

It's not a smallie, it has a lateral line

It's not a largie, it has a smallie's mouth

 

It has to be a spot

[Scott F]

Spotted bass.

[Loochy88]

Beginning to sounds like we have a consensus...  Must be a Spot!  Thanks guys!

[Kevin22]

That is not a smallmouth! To be 100% honest, it looks like a meanmouh (spot x smallie)

 

 

[Darren.]

It's a .........

[eyedabassman]

meanmouth

[gulfcaptain]

It's a chunky little bass......duh

[IndianaFinesse]

It does look like a meanmouth, I had never heard of them before.

[Gundog]

To me it looks like another species of fish that is gonna cost me thousands of dollars in gear to catch. I'm in!

[Bankbeater]

It doesn't look brown.  I would say a spot.

[Raul]

15 hours ago, Kevin22 said:

That is not a smallmouth! To be 100% honest, it looks like a meanmouh (spot x smallie)

 

 

How I´m not surprised to see Fish Chris holding that monster meanmouth ?

[Bluebasser86]

OP, where was the fish caught? I agree that it does look a bit like a meanmouth and they do occur naturally in some lakes in Missouri. I've only ever caught 1 but I've seen several caught at Table Rock and I couldn't have gotten a much worse picture of it.

[Jdw2920]

Yea was thinking mean mouth for sure 

[Loochy88]

On 3/20/2016 at 2:05 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

OP, where was the fish caught? I agree that it does look a bit like a meanmouth and they do occur naturally in some lakes in Missouri. I've only ever caught 1 but I've seen several caught at Table Rock and I couldn't have gotten a much worse picture of it.

 

I caught this at Simpson Lake in Valley Park.  Technically I didn't catch it in the lake, but in the creek that feeds back into the Meramec river, just past the dam.

[Munkin]

Could be a meanmouth? I have caught two in my life and both of them were in MO. Never caught a SM in it but the Meramac is full of spotted bass (and flatheads).

Allen