Had a good weekend on the Brazos but need help with identifying the first fish pic. The fishing was good and caught plenty of Largemouth, sunfish, spotted, and 1 1# shad, and 1 catfish on a fly. Used topwaters, clousers, and streamers but for great topwater fishing, it still needs to warm up a bit IMO. Caught my first fish on a home made fly.

A very nice Largemouth/Spotted that we caught.(help identify)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2617/5748606948_e7b3e05265_b.jpg

The bait we used for it!

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5265/5748607166_db2ea3b746.jpg


let me know if the pics don't work. my first post with pics.

that man knows the correct way to hold a fish


nice post

nice brazos bream fly idinit, BryanG.

have any ideas if we are looking at a Spotted or Largemouth?

Draw a line from the rear edge of the critters eye straight down. If there is any mouth / jaw parts in this area, she's a larger

which is what you are properly holding

I'll write my reply in english.
It appears to be a spotted bass.
Click here to see the TPWD method for recognition.

i agree with jerry, that it may be a spotted bass. if it is, it is a giant!!! may be cross bred, as a lot of fish are in the brazos. should have pulled a scale from it and sent it to TP&WD. anyway, nice bass for sure!!

Looks more like a regular largemouth to me as there is not the typical "splotching" up higher on teh back like you see in spotteds alot.

Dave

It was exhausted and after taking some quick pics, we were just in such a hurry to put it back that we didn't take measurements. It's easily over 4 lbs and could exceed 5 since it was so long. The girth was not tremendous but she was not skinny either.

We have a picture sent to a state biologist so we will see. If it's a spotted, the state freshwater record is somewhere in the high 2 lbs to low 3 lbs. The lake record is around 5.6 lbs.

+1

A black bass is a black bass and thats that.

Hey Jerry and Russell, are you two still catching them blue fin on the Nolan, or are you two just sticking now with the amber jack, and all those tarpon ? Just asking.

I'll bet that is a cross. spot and LM.. nice fish either way..

Thanks Stephen. Yes we were just excited to catch it and put it back alive. It wasn't until later that we started questioning it. Being a river bass, we couldn't ask for much more. The biologist said his analysis could not be definitive without seeing the fish personally, which is reasonable.

It's a NICE fish; don't really matter it's particular pedigree does it? Congrats!

I donno. The mouth margin might extend back behind the eye and be a Black Bass, but the markings on the side tell me it's spotted bass and not a Black Bass. I'd vote for a Spotted cross, like Russell mentioned.

I knew I'd seen that Big Brazos Bass before. My brother caught him a while back. Over by that big tree, right J S ?





this bad boy is my bro's personal best, not counting that perch he caught, and then hit me hard in the face with, back in 1966.