I have found bass from different waters can vary dramatically.

Forinstance the smallmouth and the largemouth I catch in the canals seem to
have a more uniform color with less distinctive markings. The Largemouth
tend to be a pretty more uniform green with not much lateral line. The
small mouth tend to be a more uniform golden bronze with hardly any markings
except ont heir gill plates.

In the upper river the largemouth I catch vary in shade from light to dark,
but they all seem to have distictive markings. The smallies tend to be
lighter with very distinctive "spots" all over their body. I have pulled
big largemouth out of shallow heavy cover that were almost black, and others
jerked from open water lakes were almost white.

In the lower river the largemouth caught out of grass beds tend to have a
golden bronze color similar to the smallmouth I catch in the canals.

These are all the same fish, and the Colorado River provides the inflow and
ultimately the source of fish in all of these areas. Yet you would think
they were different subspecies at the very least to look at them.

P.S. According to Az G&F we don't have any spotted bass here. Just northen
strain largemouth and smallmouth.


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Bob La Londe
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