Definitely a largemouth bass. You can tell by the coloration, the
lateral line, and the mouth.
On Oct 10, 8:31 am, Fly Fish <caglo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The photo looks like an LM. The visible lateral line and white belly are
> Large Mouth markings.
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> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:04 AM, TurbineBlade <doublebc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is that a smallmouth? It almost looks *hybridish*.....nice fish
> > regardless! Well done!
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> > I need to hit 4MR sometime....
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> > Gene
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> > On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 2:02:41 AM UTC-4, Lane Smith wrote:
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> >> Went out to 4 Mile Run this evening and managed several firsts. Until
> >> today, I've caught only bluegill in there. After trying poppers, clousers,
> >> wooly buggers, crayfish, terrestrials, minnows, etc. (and with all kinds of
> >> presentation), I tried nymphing; right on tap of the discharge. It worked a
> >> LOT. The nymphs I used were size 12-14's I think but with a heavier bead,
> >> white aentennae, black and dark red thorax segments. Perhaps they're meant
> >> to be a small crayfish? Not sure. They're awesome. I included pictures of
> >> my first ever catfish on fly (took 10 minutes to land, what a fight) and my
> >> first 4 mile smallie. I'm ecstatic I found something that worked.
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> >> Early in the afternoon when I reached the discharge, I witnessed
> >> something *massive* and dark doing *something* right in the middle of
> >> the discharge where the flow is probably strongest. About a 1/3 of its body
> >> (the back end) was just kinda hanging out above the surface when BOOM, a
> >> bit more scissored out of the water and slashed forward in (I can only
> >> assume) an attack, which sent hundreds of shad(?) swimming towards me up
> >> stream. It did this for a minute or two and then kinda loafed back into the
> >> flow and disappeared gradually. I've never seen anything like it in real
> >> life. The tail was definitively snakesnakehead but the sheer *size *of
> >> this thing ... man. So of course I slapped on the biggest deceiver pattern
> >> I had and cast into and around the discharge. Nothing came of it until I
> >> just let my deceiver pattern roll on the discharge while I considered
> >> around in my fly box for what I'd try next. Low and behold I kinda look up
> >> and there, about 2 feet behind and deeper than my fly (which almost
> >> had drifted back to me by this point), was a rather large head. I thought I
> >> was staring at an anaconda for a moment. I kind of freaked out rushed back
> >> a bit. Unpreturbed, what turned out to be a fish nonchalantly looked at me
> >> for a beat and then kinda reblended into the depths below the foam or
> >> whatever it is which the discharge creates.
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> >> My first thought was I'd just seen the same enormous snakehead close up.
> >> Thinking back though, I'm not sure. My sense was that the head connected
> >> into a bulkier body than a snakehead typically has. I think it might have
> >> been an enormous largemouth. Maybe over 10lbs. I lack the expertise to
> >> hazard a reasonable guess. Thoughts?
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