What kind of bass is this?

[panhandlehunter]

Guadalupe bass

[txtrophy85]

Yellow bass

A yellow bass is related to whites and striped bass

The above picture is a smallmouth.

The other fish is a freshwater drum

[txtrophy85]

Smallmouth:



Spotted bass:

[elkbowhunter]

Nice bass!!!

[panhandlehunter]

Buchanan doesn't even list a record for a smallmouth.

[Fishndude]

Kentucky

[Fishndude]

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[denimdeerslayer]

I say smallmouth.

[zac221]

Judging by the snout and color it appears to be a Guadalupe bass. Small mouth tend to have a rounded nose, but do have similar colors. Either way, good fish and awesome to catch two at once.

[whackem and stackem]

Looks like a Guadeloupe bass to me. Mouth to big for a smallmouth. Lake Travis is full of the Spotty's.

[47]

KY

[AtTheWall]

Your fish is a Guadalupe Bass, pure bred Lupe, not crossed with a smallmouth. It's a good sized fish too - Congrats! Guadalupe bass prefer rocks and moving water. In Texas Hillcountry lakes, they will hold around rock structure just like Smallmouth bass. Smallmouth bass have more bronze and or yellow hues to their scales as well as red eyes. Guadalupe bass have largemouth bass colored eyes.

Guadalupe and Smallmouth bass both fight harder than blackbass, size for size. Both Guadalupes and Smallies prefer moving water and hold hard against rocks, typically both are found at the top end of bigger river pools, where the rapids blow down and over and into the deeper slower waters behind. The largemouth prefer to hold in the middle to the back of these deeper water sections...in Hill Country streams. At times, the largemouth will swim up into the rapids but they will only do so if there are deeper sections of water with cover in this faster flowing sections of water. The smallies and lupes will run right up in mid current and work edges, largemouth prefer the edges.

Below are examples of what I'm talking about. I know my hill country river and lake bass.....I fish the Guadalupe River a lot!


Here's a Smallmouth\Guadalupe bass hybrid. They stopped stocking smallies in the Guadalupe River once they found out they can and will create a hybrid species, not desirable for the Guadalupe bass since they are only found in TEXAS HILLCOUNTRY STREAMS...which includes Lake Buchanan. Note the red eyes, smallmouth have red eyes.



Here's a Guadalupe River smallmouth pure species, not hybrid. Note the bronze colored tint versus the fish above. Also note the fish above has red eyes. Smallmouth have red eyes, and both the pure smallmouth and hybrid smallmouth\Guadalupe bass exhibit the same eye color

Another smallmouth showing a yellow\green color variation. Not as common as the bronzeback color. Also note the vertical bands that follow the fishes spine are undefined, literally tiger striped or in this fishes case, literally non-existent.


This is a toad of a Guadalupe Bass. Pure Guadalupe here, female, note the bands are very tiger striped along it's side. Black bass have a very defined green line that follow the fishes spine along the side, where as Guadalupe bass show tiger stripes. Also note the eye color and size, more like a blackbass, not smallmouth.


Here's a Black bass from the Guadalupe River. Note the green lines along it's side...they are tight, no tiger stripes, basically a solid line with jagged edges above and below the main line.


Another Blackbass from the Guadalupe river that has no horizontal green line at all. She is simply solid green along her sides with no real line, shifting to light green and white on her belly.

[Artos]

you are a bass catching encyclopedia...thanks for that!!

How many variations of the white bass??

[KHoes203]

That would be a Guadalupe.

[BigTex.308]

That would be a Guadalupe.

State fish!




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