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TXH2Oman
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:17 pm • # 1 |
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Joined: 02/14/17 Posts: 380 Location: Georgetown, Texas and Corpus Christi, Texas
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Made a quick stop on the way home from work today to fish a really unique little creek a buddy and I have been alternating days on recently. The goal today was to pick up a couple of bass to deliver to the UT Natural History Collection in Austin. Their last fish from this particular body of water came in the 1880s during a US-Mexico Boundary Commission survey ... they think. Anyway, it's a tossup whether these are spotted bass (M. punctulatis) or Guadalupe bass (M. treculii) ... I'm guessing I have one of each here, but won't know until the experts take a look. Neither are "supposed" to be there, but here are a lot of them, whatever they are. Echo Carbon XL 2 wt and the mouse, of course (and yes, I did try half a dozen other patterns before I gave up and went back to my standby, and promptly caught two fish).
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wheezeburnt
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:08 am • # 2 |
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Joined: 12/29/12 Posts: 1835 Location: Rusagonis, New Brunswick, Canada
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Wow! I'm amazed at the size of the caudal fin on that first bass. Is that typical?
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TXH2Oman
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:32 am • # 3 |
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wheezeburnt wrote: Wow! I'm amazed at the size of the caudal fin on that first bass. Is that typical? Ya know, I don't know. Dropping both specimens off at the University of Texas Ichthyology collection today. I'll ask.
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Cliff Hilbert
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:58 am • # 4 |
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Those are beautiful pics of the scenery!
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TXH2Oman
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 4:00 pm • # 5 |
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Thanks, Cliff!
So, according to the fish biologists at UT, the top picture (fish facing left) is a largemouth, and the bottom picture is a spotted bass.
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JimRed
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:56 pm • # 6 |
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Now, if I ever catch a spotted bass I'll be able to identify it. Thanks for the post.
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Lightfoot
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:58 pm • # 7 |
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Joined: 05/21/17 Posts: 29 Location: Cedarville, Michigan
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The tailfin on the top fish looks huge for the size of the fish. You took some nice looking photos. Thanks for sharing
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preast
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:03 am • # 8 |
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Joined: 09/03/10 Posts: 266 Location: Austin, TX
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Pretty cool Aaron. So what are they gonna do with them? Catalog the DNA samples of the specimen and location,etc?
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strummer
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:03 am • # 9 |
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Cool report!
I haven't tried that mouse yet. Remind me to put that in the box...
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TXH2Oman
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:05 pm • # 10 |
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preast wrote: Pretty cool Aaron. So what are they gonna do with them? Catalog the DNA samples of the specimen and location,etc? Randy, they took tissue samples for DNA -- the LMB actually had a bit of a tooth patch, so has some sort of introgression from spotted or Guadalupe bass -- and are cataloguing the specimens. They didn't have anything from that particular creek since 1857 and were very interested. Cool place and nice folks with a lot of knowledge. Worth a visit if you get a chance -- Pickle Research Campus at Braker/Burnet. I didn't get an answer on the caudal fin, and they didn't remark on it. Strummer ... the Mouse is so much fun! Fish it, man!
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Canoeman1947
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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 10:06 pm • # 11 |
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Aaron, You catch so many bass so consistently on that mouse pattern; are you sure you aren't dipping it in Berkley PowerBait fish attractant? Larry
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TXH2Oman
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:26 am • # 12 |
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Joined: 02/14/17 Posts: 380 Location: Georgetown, Texas and Corpus Christi, Texas
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Canoeman1947 wrote: Aaron, You catch so many bass so consistently on that mouse pattern; are you sure you aren't dipping it in Berkley PowerBait fish attractant? Larry Are we not supposed to do that?
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Knotty
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 6:27 pm • # 13 |
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Nice report. Need to tie up some of your mice. Lost the one from the swap to a tree fish.
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Iasgair
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 7:15 pm • # 14 |
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JimRed wrote: Now, if I ever catch a spotted bass I'll be able to identify it. Thanks for the post. We don't have spotted bass where I live. Is it called a spotted bass because of the spots near the belly? Or am I wrong?
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TXH2Oman
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Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2017 11:09 pm • # 15 |
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Joined: 02/14/17 Posts: 380 Location: Georgetown, Texas and Corpus Christi, Texas
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Iasgair wrote: JimRed wrote: Now, if I ever catch a spotted bass I'll be able to identify it. Thanks for the post. We don't have spotted bass where I live. Is it called a spotted bass because of the spots near the belly? Or am I wrong? Yes, precisely. Though a lot of folks assume it's called that because of the dorsal pattern (which a lot of bass get depending on habitat).
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