Here in western NY, I have seen smallies come out of three "largemouth"
ponds. Three out of one of those ponds over seven years. But it was clear
that these were anomalies and that someone probably tossed them in there.

I'm no expert on fisheries, but I fish lakes with smallies and hardly ever
find them in the largemouth habital that I fish. On the other hand, I'd
guess that this is a good time of year for finding smallies where you fish
for LM.


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Ok this one kinda shocked me. Was out early fishing with Jeremy on the
small lake here in NE Pennsylvania, Now I have fished these lakes for over
7 years now and thought I had caught every fish in them. LM bass, Catfish,
toothy critters, sunfish, bluegill, even eels.

Well as we were fishing Jeremy has his spinnerbait just get slammed by a
fish. It leaps, looks like a good fish then manages to put a decent bend
in his rod till he gets it into the boat. As he;s lifting it over the
side, I saw something that I never saw before in these waters. A
smallmouth bass. Beautiful fish in the 2-2 1/2 pound range. And living up
to everybit of the name bronzeback. I was stunned. We both kinda looked at
each other with that "what the f%^&" look.


So now I have a bunch of questions.

1) Whats the chances that there are more in this lake and that me Dave and
a variety of other anglers have never caught any? ( Me thinks not
possible)

2) What are the chances that this SM was the only one released in this
lake by someone?

3) Do smallmouth bass and Lm bass cross breed?

Hell and I have to move now