Need some help with a fish ID.

[Fuzzy_Face]

Hello Bass Lovers, 

 

Need a little help identifying the fish in the picture. I'm having trouble making a definitive identification and could use some input. Cheers. 

 

- Fuzzy

[EGbassing]

Looks like a rock bass.

[Steve1357]

Agreed

 

Many different nicknames....

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warmouth

 

Darn things keep taking the tails off any curly tail worms around here...Swing and a miss!

 

[Darren.]

Welcome aboard!

 

I'll let the others "decide" though based on Google Images,

it may be a ... rock bass  

[Hurricane]

Caught about 100 of them this week up here in the Adirondacks...

[Mobasser]

Rock bass. Lots of them in the Missouri Ozarks

[tander]

Google Eye

[Drew03cmc]

Definitely not a rock bass, warmouth. They're different species altogether. 

[Scott F]

22 minutes ago, Drew03cmc said:

Definitely not a rock bass, warmouth. They're different species altogether. 

What makes you say it's a warmouth and not a rock bass?

[scaleface]

9 hours ago, tander said:

Google Eye

I Googled eye  and didnt see anything relating to fish . 

[PNW LipRipper]

It's a oogly boogly eye aka (Rock bass)

[Drew03cmc]

19 minutes ago, Scott F said:

What makes you say it's a warmouth and not a rock bass?

Well, considering ambloplites rupestris does not have any of the mottling and that lepomis gulosis does, means I lean warmouth. Rock bass normally have rows of spots, no mottling.

 

https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/war/

 

http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Ambloplites_rupestris/

[shovelmouth83]

Definitely a warmouth. Mean fish. 

[WRB]

The identifier that matters we can't see; anal fin with 3 spines is warmouth, 6 spines is rock bass, 2 different species, coloration varies with locale.

Tom

[Jar11591]

This looks nothing like any rock bass I’ve ever caught. And I’ve caught a million. 

[tander]

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

I Googled eye  and didnt see anything relating to fish . 

Oops, Goggle eye ?

[Bluebasser86]

I don't believe I've ever seen a google eye or rock bass with the war paint on the cheeks like a warmouth has. It's pretty dull on the OP's fish, but it's there. I usually see it a little more pronounced on the ones I catch.

[Catt]

It's a female Warmouth (Lepomis gulosus), the male has brighter colors.

 

Other Names

Redeye, Goggle-eye, Red-eyed Bream, Stump Knocker, Mudgapper, Mo-mouth, Morgan, Molly, Rock Bass, Open Mouth, Weed Bass, Wood Bass, Strawberry "perch", Mud Bass, Warmouth Bass

 

https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/war/

 

 

[WRB]

^^^warmouth^^^, clearly has 2 anal fin spins, 3rd is there not easy to see, but definately not 6! Good photo.

Tom

[Catt]

Those pictures are of females, notice the coloration.

 

Below are males, notice the brighter coloration.

 

 

[EGbassing]

18 hours ago, scaleface said:

I Googled eye  and didnt see anything relating to fish . 

Same here.

[Dom Hendricks]

Is this a warmouth?  That’s what I’ve always called them.  I burnt through 2 20 packs of trickworms on Saturday because of them. 

 

 

 

 

[Catt]

Down south they're called Goggle-eye Perch

 

@Dom Hendricks & @Bluebasser86

 

It's hard to tell what those are because I can't see fins!

[WRB]

2 hours ago, EGbassing said:

Same here.

Look up "Goggle Eye" fish.

Tom

[Dom Hendricks]

Different fish but I think it’s the same species @Catt