Is this a new thing

Or have i just not noticed it before? Seen it here twice in the last few days. Why are people saying “blacks and smallmouth”?....smallmouth are black bass...

Blacks are large mouths,small mouths are called brown backs or bronze backs is what I always thought

Black bass are largemouth, smallmouth, spotted, guad, shoal, etc. when people are strictly talking about LMB, they never call them “blacks”.

This. Black bass refers to all of the 14 recognized bass species in the genus Micropterus.

I always do and always have. Might be a regional think but I agree... A black bass is a largemouth. A smallmouth is not a largemouth. Nor is a smallmouth a black bass. If I'm talking smallmouth I call them "smallies" , "bronze backs" or even "brownies".

If someone asks me what I'm fishing for I might reply with "black bass". I never have considered that to mean anything other than a largemouth

You got to keep up with the hip lingo.

Must be the same lingo that calls cover structure and vice versa

black bass or large mouth is not part of the bass family. they are part of the sunfish family. the same goes for small mouth. texas has only one native bass. i think its the yellow bass. i am not sure of that but i know they only have one native bass.

Why can't they just be bass? Why have a color? All bass should be equal ...

Don't hook, fins up.

You are right that Texas has only one native Bass but it`s the "Guadalupe" not the "yellow"

Lol

What's black about them? They look green to me.

They look like succulent bass fillets to me.

Not even gonna touch this ....

Nope, Yellow Bass is right. Guadalupe is Micropterus Treculii (Micropterus is the Sunfish Family, Black Basses).

Though, I thought the temparate basses (White and Stripers) were native to Texas, just not necessarily in the numbers and in freshwater. Oh, we did have native northern strain LMB as well, The Guad is the only "Endemic" species however.

That's what I have always called them. I'm just a dumb country boy.

The yanks call them Largies and Smallies.

I referred to Largemouth as just bass and called Smallmouth "smallies"

Charlie Moore calls them Larry's and Sally's

some folks up norf call smallmouth green bass

In my world it has always been Largemouth, Brownies or Smallies, Spots or Kentuckies,and ( since I retired and moved to Central Texas) Guads or Guadeloupe.

Exactly.