Smallmouth/Largemouth

[The Grebe]

Heard a couple of good ones last night....I was fishing the river, like I do about 3 times a week. Two other guys were standing there, one fishing, one exponding on all things, large and small, concerning fishing. He obviously knew what he was talking about, because he had a camo hat, camo coat and rubber boots on.

I commenced to pitch my jig into the river and the older fella let me know that there weren't any crappies around. "Huh?" says I...it made me wonder where the half dozen nice ones I had in my cooler came from?

Anyways I catch a little largemouth bass about 4 inches long and the expert says, "Got yerself a little smallmouth dare."

Says I, "Nah, it's a largemouth." The camo guy was adament it was a smallie...I told him that smallies aren't green with a black static line running front to back....they were some shade of olive brown and if they had any markings at all at that size, it would be verticle.

"Dats not da way I identify em, I look at the distance between the eye and da mouth." The dude must have had laser vision to check that out on a 4 inch fish at 10 feet! I don't know if these guys were buddies or what, cause the older fella pipes in, "Yah, dey start out green like dat wit da black when dare little and den dey turn brown."

Try as I might, I couldn't catch a little smallie to show the guys the difference! I had caught at least 30 of em before I ran into the two guys! Thats how it goes though, when you take the car to the mechanic it never makes the noise!

[mainbutter]

lol

I've had people tell me that suckers were "carp" before.

[Deitz Dittrich]

I had caught a nice bass the other day while fishing as a boat was trolling by.. When I heard.. Wow, look at the size of that Northern. . Now I can see someone messing up Smallies and largies... MAYBE.. but a pike and a bass?.. oooffffdah

[Wanderer]

Makes ya wonder how they can keep track of size restrictions and slot limits, eh?

[Nick Kuhn]

That's the sort of thing my little cousins do. They measure by the overall size of the bass. I've had plenty of non-fishing boaters ask me what kind of fish I have there. Personally I'd probably have trouble with a few riverine fish species.

And then there's these people: 17" bass comes on board: "This thing must weigh at least 6 lbs"

The worst of all are the "hey if you don't want to keep them we'll take them"

[Flooringuy]

You got to admit it's, entertaining in it's own way. LOL

[marshmallow]

The bone structure in the jaw area are differant.. Just like warmouth,Green sunfish,compared to a Bluegill,and punkin Seeds..

[Bassman55]

The funniest one I ever seen was a dad and his kid fishing out on the dock. The kid hooks into a decent size bass and his dad come out to help him. The bass jumps and throws his hook, when all the sudden the dad yells, "That was a huge, @ss, WALLEYE." I still laugh about that one.

[wildcatcreek]

Around here people call sheephead(drum), perch for some reason. Completely different species of fish.lol. I'll say...... look at this huge drum I caught, and the guy will say...... that's not a drum, it's a perch.