Catch quite a few here in AR with the black spots and fins.

This question comes up EVERY Prespawn/Spawn time of year and you rarely see any "black spot" questions any other time of the year. So I am going to still maintain that it is a hormonal thing related to the spawn. I see it mostly in the bucks.

Sounds right. They just need a girlfriend.

Livingston and conroe have alot of these dont know why but there are alit of miths ouy there who knows i think.its kinda cool.

Yea but those big fish with eggs above are.not bucks..lol

The state of Pennsylvania did a study on bass with black spots and determined it was a parasite.


I read another one on gold fish with black spots and they determined it was caused by high ammonia levels in the water. They called it ammonia Burn......

I don't doubt that spots have cleared up after the fish was in a livewell, but the fish I posted in that picture on the previous page was caught at 8AM and weighed at 330PM. The pic was taken by a TFFer right after weigh in and right before I released it.

Too bad the spots don't add weight. I catch them all the time like that, when I catch them.

It is like sun spots.

This bass are black with green splotches ! Falcon lake in 2011

I just watched a video a couple of days ago and Shaw Grisby said that you only really see it where there's a healthy population of bass.

i guess if falcon throws out solid black ones the healthy fishery thing has some legs imo

I have seen many of those bass here at Falcon but never really knew why they were like that�

The black spots are tattoos, they get them from the redfish down on the coast.

Whoah, talk about "Black" bass.