Anyone seen one like this?

Quite common in the North especially on the big waters like Erie or St Clair to see Largemouths with black spots on them. Not sure why..

Yep. Got a little smallie earlier this year that looked like someone dipped it in black paint.

See a lot of those on the Upper Chesapeake Bay river systems. The spots are all over, no general patterns to them like from being handled , etc. Same here, usually seen on the 2 – 4 pound fish, rarely see it on larger fish.

I dont know Mojo, I read a lot of Ralphs articles, read that one in the past…….but I catch a lot with just one or two quarter to half dollar size spots on them, mostly on the back side of the head, not a place that would be touched in a normal catch and release scenario….rarely see any with markings around the jaws, where you would think they would be from handling. Who knows, until they do more research on it well just keep guessing…the good thing is it does not seem to bother the bass. I caught the same one 3 weekends in a row off the same piling using the same bait. Guess he was too hungry to notice…..

You should stay out of the strip pits! Usually those spots are from being handled at a young age we understand. Though our resident biologist should be along to let us know sometime soon. Where ya at there Jeremy! tHANKS wARD, We missed the login ID and Jeremy/Mojo is the resident biologist. It is our understanding from years of biologists conversations that it is handling, and some are gentic also. BCBLast edited by Bass Cat Boats on December 1st, 2008, 4:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.