I find the lighter pale colored bass here, usually near open water, and then
the very very dark LM's that hang in the weed beds. Guess it's all about how
much light they are exposed to. The darker bass look more like smallies than
Lm's
"Ronnie" wrote in message
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Bass caught where there is not much light are often more pale in color.
Is the river muddy or much colder than the lake? Most of the bass I
catch in the winter here, when the water is muddy, are very pale but
they color up as the water clears and they move more shallow too.

Our spotted bass have darker markings than largemouth.

Ronnie

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Ken Blevins wrote:
After a two year absence from the Ohio river I started fishing it again
this
past may, and it was by accident that this happened .[ Playing with a new
rod ].I tied a white rooster tail on and on the 4th or 5th cast I caught
a
stripper . A little later a sauger then a drum .It went like this for
about
an hour. All of this action came standing on the boat ramp. Lately I've
been
catching LMB at the ramp feeding on shad or skip jacks but their color is
not the same as the lake LMB that I've caught. The LMB that I catch in
the
river are a pale green and don't have such a distinctive lateral line as
the
LMB that I catch in the lake Also I caught a LMB from the river that was
almost 21 inches long that had distinctive lake bass marking. All of the
pale green bass from the river are less than 13 inches. What would be the
common name of the pale green bass???Kentucky bass?? Spotted bass??

Thanks

Ken Blevins