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Is this one of those Golden Phase Largemouth I’ve read about. Note lack of markings and the Red Eye.

Nice fish!

Smartphone pic? Way over saturated and when I look at a luminescence and color channel histograms for the image they show big spike on both the left and right side. Looks like something the computational enhancements stuff built into phone cams over the last few years would do (yea I'm ...

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That red eye looks very smallmouth-like!


Spotted bass can have red eyes too. And they can hybridize with largemouth.

Both largemouth and spots can interbreed with small mouth. The result is often referred to as a "meanmouth". My understanding is that this hybridization is much more rare.

Bass have the ability to change their color to match the background, much like a chameleon. So bass caught in the weeds will have the classic green and black largemouth pattern and I have seen fish caught in the open water be light green and almost silvery.

https://www.takemefishing.org/blog ...

The past week was the typical shore pounding results this year. You catch a few fish here and there and in low numbers. I went to San Vicente, Poway, and Sweets. If you want a free shower, hit the lake trails at Poway. The grass and weeds are nice and thick you will be soaked in seconds with May ...

I’ve caught one with zero markings at murray

Bass have the ability to change their color to match the background, much like a chameleon. So bass caught in the weeds will have the classic green and black largemouth pattern and I have seen fish caught in the open water be light green and almost silvery.

https://www.takemefishing.org/blog ...

The lake should be open today.... I'm planning to drive down to check it a bit later today to see what's going on, standby

Seen lots of bass without markings in the local eastcounty lakes...
Also have seen lots of red-eyes on the males during the spawn.
I have no idea if the red-eye has anything to do with the spawn or not, but Rob Magargal "Linebig" seems to think so....

Hard to believe this is the same lake as Spring 2018. The jerkbait bite was the most wideopen I have ever seen. The only hotter SD bass fishing that I have seen better, was poaching Barrett in the 80s. No joke, the back of Harveys Arm, it was wide open like tuna fishing. Shad were spawning and we ...

Thanks a lot G! If we can get some pictures along, you are a hero!


Here are a couple pics from about 20 min ago. Based on what I saw, there's about 20 kayakers and a few float tubers around and a good amount of shore pounders. I could only imagine what it looked like this morning. Hopefully ...

Didn' t even know it was going to really open but I made the trip with my float tube but didn't get on the water until maybe 10 am. It was sad to see this lake in the shape that it is in. I have fished here for at least 30 years and at one time it was the go to lake for double digit bass. The lake ...

I started at about 6:30am and left at 8:30am and ended up with 6 from the bank. 4 were the smaller 1-2lb like you caught then I got a spawned out lethargic 7-8lber and then a 5lber that was healthy but I had to bail for work.

Quick late afternoon session from in the tube was very surprised by the amount of people remaining till closing. The water was hovering 69 degrees through out all levels. The water went from 5' to 15' in the center of the pond. The water was a coffee/chocolate in color and about 1' to 2' in clarity ...

[Lake Hodges 2023 Re-Opener @chrisbrandtthebeefshaman9590
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Hey all so glad to be posting this! Got to the gate around 4:40 and was #10 in line. When the gate opened everyone in front of me went to the concession area and I went straight to the vending machine for my ...

And now it's contaminated.!!!!! No wonder I have felt like crap since my last trip!! I thought it was that I'm 75 and the weather sucks!! :0

I enjoy watching your youtube videos, always catching those monsters..

Lol if you’re fishing “the outside edge” of the tullies, you’re wasting your time. You need to be fishing braid or 20lb flouro and getting your bait into spots you’re not certain you could land a fish if you were bit. Or, find the fish offshore that are chasing bait