Bass Identification

[theefisherman]

Hi All,

So I was fishing up in the North GA mountains this weekend and got the bass below. The water temp was 65F, and I had caught a LM and then a spot, and then this one. I thought it was going to be my first GA smallie, but the color is way off.

Any thoughts?

Thx,

Ben

 

[Coenen]

Awesome fish!

Looks like a shoalie to me, or maybe a spot + something hybrid. Doesn't have the deep body of a smallie.

 

[LTZ25]

I'm thinking shoal bass and a nice one at that .

 

[fish hawk]

Spot

 

[Mildee]

maybe some kind of spot hybrid. Doesn't look like a shoal to me

 

[NCHillbilly]

Not a smallmouth. It's a spot or a spot hybrid.

 

[spurrs and racks]

large mouth

 

[Gordon]

Nice Bass, looks like a Spot/Smallie hybrid to me.

 

[The mtn man]

It's just a plain ole spot.

 

[Tmpr111]

Ole inbred Spotty

 

[LTZ25]

Agree a spot I was just hoping it was a Shoal bass .

 

[lampern]

Looks like an alabama bass (micropterus henshalli) to me but not sure

 

[theefisherman]

Thanks for all the feedback! I'm happy to see there there was some variation in the answers to confirm I wasn't crazy. Looks like I'll go with some spot / spot hybrid. It definitely had the mouth of a spot/smallie type.

Wish it had better color, thing that would help identifying it, at the moment it's just 'do nothing green'