Lets Start A Post Your Fish Thread.

[fish4keep]

Is that a Stella I see AI? God damn.  

Sure is.  Gutsy for putting so close to rocks too.  Maybe I'm just anal about nicks. AI sure got some blings....   

Very nice fishes.  That big girls about to pop.  WTG on the release.

[basside]

Its okay to bang them up against rocks, $700 reels are indestructible .

[Roc]

Crappie fail day. 10 Smallmouth bass, two largest at 15" and Zero Crappie:

[Ron Burgundy]

Why is nws lub plab zais zais.. is it pregnant?

Yes, full of eggs.

[1luv]

1.  We don't get many small mouth here at all but I caught one on a funky bait and in the oddest of waters.  Try fast flowing currents of the Sacramento River.   My very first small mouth ever and I have been fishing the same area for decades.  






now the lure which is just a hook.  Was targeting them American Shad but ended up catching this.  Go figures.  

[Roc]

1luv that's a toad of a smallmouth. I can see why it hit that jig, they love stuff like that. You'd catch even more if you put on a curly tail grub or a minnow but I understand you're fishing for shad.

[xhunting918]

From yesterday.

[agentx]

14.10 lbs 32.75"






Whoa those are hogs. We don't run into hogs that size up here in MN at least not regularly in the metro area. My PB is only a 30" 10.5 lb.





Slightly over 14lbs rite @ 32"

[saki saki]

From yesterday.

yo, the back ground..is tat red wing dam..the other side by the dam on ur left.

[Reporter]

That's a strange small mouth.

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1.  We don't get many small mouth here at all but I caught one on a funky bait and in the oddest of waters.  Try fast flowing currents of the Sacramento River.   My very first small mouth ever and I have been fishing the same area for decades.  






now the lure which is just a hook.  Was targeting them American Shad but ended up catching this.  Go figures.  









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Our small mouths look like this (Hitokiri's):

[basside]

It has to do with the water.

River smallies are much darker than lake/pond smallies b/c lake/pond smallies live around sand/gravel and are a bit pail, yellow-ish brown. Northern States have dark water lakes because its rich with rocks and iron so the fish are a bit darker. Just compare the Boundary Water and Canada smallies to further south's.

[Roc]

Don't forget that fish can change their color and pattern. Have you ever compared a shallow water largemouth with a deeper water one? The one in the shallows is a lot darker and the deep ones are lighter. If you take a deep fish and put in the shallow water, it only takes a few minutes before the fish changes to dark.

[Reporter]

Oh, I see. Didn't know that. Thanks.

[saki saki]

Don't forget that fish can change their color and pattern. Have you ever compared a shallow water largemouth with a deeper water one? The one in the shallows is a lot darker and the deep ones are lighter. If you take a deep fish and put in the shallow water, it only takes a few minutes before the fish changes to dark.

wouldn't that fall under stress. I use to raise fish in a tank, when you move the fish out N into another tank..the temp, water, you know what i mean. All those chem.you put in the fish tank..
Anyways the fish gets stress out..so the color changes.

[basside]

wouldn't that fall under stress. I use to raise fish in a tank, when you move the fish out N into another tank..the temp, water, you know what i mean. All those chem.you put in the fish tank..
Anyways the fish gets stress out..so the color changes.

If they're changing color within the hours, it's stress. The two smallies a page back is b/c of location.