A few months ago, CZ and I went fishin' at the Delta. CZ all of a sudden sticks this fish and when we get it in the boat, we both look at eachother and are like " WTF ?! Look at those colors ! " Nor him or I have ever seen something like this. Have any of you seen anything like this ?? Too bad we didn't keep it, we could've called it a " Teenage Mutant Ninja Bass " !:+ :+
#3500, "RE: A Smallie/Striper MIX !!!" In response to Reply # 1
IFISH say's,
Sacto John, I swear on my FAMILY this fish is 100% real ! CZ will confirm this. We were in shock of this ourselves. I was using a camera phone and I wanted to capture the coloration of the fish. I didn't think my camera phone would take a picture that good, so I didn't get the head. This IS NOT a hoax.
#3501, "RE: Yeah, Ive seen one" In response to Reply # 2
I agree with Urban, that's some type of Redeye hybrid. There are most definitely red-eyes in the Delta.
Have a look at bigreenjobasses' pic in his gallery of his monster red eye and check out the horizontal bars on the fish (yes this one is photshopped and yes that was a 5lb 4oz fish)
#3502, "RE: A Smallie/Striper MIX !!!" In response to Reply # 3
I was just making that assumption because of the dark black line s between the belly of the fish and CZ's shirt. I did not meen to offend you I just thought you were haveing a bit of fun with us.
#3504, "RE: A Smallie/Striper MIX !!!" In response to Reply # 6 Thu Nov-17-05 01:19 PM by Tm Customs
Heres another http://www.calfishing.com/gallery/album11/aaj that is a smallie red eye cross and here is a smallie largemouth cross that was tagged and confirm by dfg http://www.calfishing.com/gallery/1/abi
I think the one you have is a smallie redeye cross but if there is ever a smallie striper cross I am 100% sure it will come from the delta I have cought some weird things out there all kinds of hybrids and even more recently tlapia have been showing up a bit in schools with bluegil
Hey let that Bass go I wanna catch her some day http://www.calfishing.com/gallery/v/members/tmcustoms/
#3505, "RE: A Smallie/Striper MIX !!!" In response to Reply # 7
I dont think its possible that a striper can cross with a smallie. I take it back, the two cannot produce offspring. They are separated so far apart taxonomically thats there just isnt the possibility. Plus, they both have different spawning strategies: stripers are broadcast spawners, smallmouth build nests.
Anyway, too bad you dont have the head. That would really help. I have a nice photo of a pure redeye from New Melones where you can see the horizontal stripes. Ill post it later.
This is a straight redeye, complete with correct fin coloration. Its was cool catching these things in the Stanislaus, some had a very odd blueish color to their bellies. Seemed the furhter up the river we went, the more the coloration was pure redeye.
#3511, "RE: Heres a redeye" In response to Reply # 9
Man, I forgot how pronounced those horizontal lines were until you showed that picture! I'm going to have to agree that you had a redeye or maybe a redeye smallie cross.