The smallies here in Percy Priest are actually green... and can be hard to
distinguish from a largemouth.


"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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"Alwaysfishking" wrote in message
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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

Hmmm.... For years people told me there weren't any smallmouth around
here, but as a kid I caught fish in the canals that sure looked like
smallmouth. When I actually took the time to learn the differences I
discovered, THEY ARE, and guys who know teir fish have been catching too.

One thing I think threw folks is a lot of the canal and lower river
smallies have very muted to almost no markings, and they are very dark.
In the upper river they are lighter colored and very spotted looking.
Huge difference in appearance.

What's funny is a lot of the largemouth in the lower river are that same
dark golden bronze color as the smallies. The smaller ones you have to
look close or look at the jaw plate to tell the difference. When they get
bigger the markings are much easier to distinguish.


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