Smallmouth or Largemouth

[steverowbotham]

Interesting catch here. A member of my club caught this fish in Cooks Bay a couple of weeks ago... What do you all think?

[asdve23rveavwa]

I would say Largie...but, almost looks like a cross-breed.

 

Took a second look...the head, how far the jaw extends in relation to the eye...definitely smallie.

However the back half of the fish, sure looks like a largie.

Edited October 7, 2011 by FRANKIE65

[mike rousseau]

Im going smallie with an odd color pattern...

[Roy]

It's a smallie.

[Harrison]

For sure smallie, but wonder if it is a weed fish. Hence the colouring. It is from Cooks, so maybe so.

[Jigger]

I want to say smallie, but the mouth looks like it might be behind the eye and the rear end looks largie... Smargie?

[Remastered]

Certainly a smallmouth. But the oddly patterned tail section gives the impression of a largemouth. Maybe it was a wannabe

[craigdritchie]

Smallie. Fish from Scugog sometimes have similar colouration.

[bushart]

I'm with Jigger

 

Hook in mouth behind eye says largie

[Harrison]

Smallie. Fish from Scugog sometimes have similar colouration.

 

Good point Craig, here are a couple green Scugog fish for reference.

 

Edit to add-

 

Sometimes the bars do not show up on smallies right away, this could be the case with the fish in question.

Edited October 7, 2011 by Harrison

[bushart]

The scugog greenies have definete bars---definite smallies

 

Steve's fish has those lateral line markings at the tail end of a largie

[Live2fish85]

I am going with smallie cause the head but it does look like a cross.

[Terry]

looks like a Hybrid to me

 

they do happen

[Pikeslayer]

I'm going with DINNER.

 

Slayer

[ra95]

Of course it is large mouth. The mouth is much larger than a smallie.

[mercman]

Big fat smallie.

Color as per habitat.the ones i catch around here have no 'bars' either.Just green, but paler that yours.

 

 

[singingdog]

Tough call. The head certainly looks like a smallie, but I have never seen that pattern on a smallie before. Seems to me like a candidate for the hybrid category.

[GBW]

Largie who's mouth isn't so big. I think it has a complex and now you are all picking on it...

[Cookslav]

No doubt in my mind...that there is an Atlantic

[fish_fishburn]

Is there an orange ring in the eye...No. Cause it's a largie.

[Gregoire]

It looks a lot like a largie to me, but I would go with hybrid as it seems to have some traits identified with both species.

Edited October 7, 2011 by fishgreg

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Face/Off!!

 

I think it is a largie trying to pass off as a smallie..

[esoxansteel]

Looks like diner for those new Simcoe Muskies

[johnnyb]

Hybrid seems right...but if I had to pick one I'd say largie...jaw looks like it goes back far enough and everything else looks like a largie to me.

 

 

[Roy]

I think it would be very unlikely that a hybrid could happen although..we should never say never.