A Largemouth acting like a smallmouth

[soflabasser]

19 hours ago, 38 Super Fan said:

 

It's common for them to hang together around here. Here's a LMB SMB double I caught from last year.

Nice double. I have caught a double of peacock and largemouth or largemouth and warmouth while fishing with jerkbaits in South Florida. Jerkbaits are one of my favorite lures for active bass.

[NorthwestBasser]

Last spring, cranking a rock pile in about 6 fow. Hooked a 3½lb LMB, very next cast, exact same spot, hooked a 3½lb SMB. I broke up a turf war... Haha. 

When I'm targeting smallies, I ALWAYS retrieve my lure parallel to the bank. This is because once I find and pattern the fish at a certain depth I want the fish to stay there. I've noticed with the smallies, if I fish perpendicular to the bank I can inadvertently pull the whole school off the depth zone they were sitting in when they follow the hooked fish out. They are definitely followers and I haven't had the same issues with largies

[bigbassin']

I've had largemouth follow other largemouth in before.  It hasn't happened very often, but when it has the follower has always been in the 5+ pound class while the one I have hooked is around 12 inches.   My assumption is that the bigger fish viewed the smaller one as a meal.

[Paul Roberts]

I've seen SM act like LM -sortof. Had a pond with both in it. It was heavily vegetated around the perimeter with open water in the middle. Smallies hunted under the slop along shorelines like the LM's. Caught SM up to 19" on frogs.