So I wrote this article a few months ago, but I figured I would share it with y'all here in the bass fishing section: http://phkellnerfishing.blogspot.com/2012/02/plight-of-guadalupe-bass.html

nice read enjoyed the article

Thanks!

Good article, keep up the good work to give this fish the respect it deserves. Most people don't know the difference between the spotted, largemouth and guadalupes. They may never know they may have already caught one. Most people think they just caught a small largemouth. It is also hard to tell them apart from dark colored spotted bass. Your second picture seems to have more spotted bass traits to it. However, I'm far from being an expert.

I was also told by TPWD that the guad will hybridize with the spotted.
I tried to qualify my son's guadalupe bass for a waterbody record for the Medina River,(which is never mentioned as a gualupe bass river but they exist), they told me hardly any purebreds exist anymore, so they qualified it as a guadalupe x spotted (record still intact!).
Keep up the good work and articles.

@medinaD - Since writing the article, I have been told that Guad's hybridize with Spots and that they don't. So I am confused on this myself, and need to do a little more research.

Also, the Medina does hold Guads, you are right! It is just considered the headwaters of the San Antonio usually. Just like the Pedernales holds guads, but is considered with the Colorado.

Thanks for reading!

Cool article.

The Guads on the Blanco river, that brings back memories from boy scouts fishing it at summer camp in the 80's...

I noticed on their map for naitive distribution, it has "alabama bass" but not "kentucy" or spotted basses??

East texas should have some areas of the graph with spotted basses on it.



I also take some of this to heart, not only from the memories i have of catching guads growing up in scpout camp, but from the many years i caught spotted bass on the north end creeks of lake houston.

An area that was once full of spotted bass, seems to be completely devoid of them now, which saddens me as catching those stout hard pulling current fish, isn't something i can do a few miles from my home any more...

The map leeves off the big-three bass. The northern strain largemouth, the smallmouth, and the spotted bass (Kentucky.) It focuses on smaller regional basses, like the Guad. The Alabama Bass is actually considered a separate species from the spotted bass now.

Thanks for reading.