[fishinjack]

launched from Red Bud Isle today at 3:00PM.  Fished Tom Miller for awhile with no takers.  Decided to go downstream and hit the banks up and was able to find some fish.  Caught 6 fish today with the best being around 3-4lbs.  A few dinks as well.  Was fishing tx rig baby rattlesnake in trophy hunter color.  This was the maiden voyage of my Birthday/Christmas present.  
Here are a few pics of the better fish.

Is this bass a spotted or a guadalupe?

 

[Jukebox]

Looks like a nice day on the water! That looks like a Guad to me.

 

[basstrack]

Looks like a nice day on the water! That looks like a Guad to me.

What Juke said and by the wY nice looking fish.

 

[redrooster]

Thanks for sharing! Congrats on your new Christmas/Birthday present.
Looks like Guad to me too. They are real fighters almost like a Smallie.

 

[shamgar98]

Nice fish, I was told you could tell a Guad by their mouth somehow, I cant remember if it was the teeth or something else, has anyone heard how to tell them apart?

 

[JD]

Probably a hybrid "Smadalupe" bass. From everything I've read on it the pure guads are gone for the most part. Supposedly there are a few stretches of rivers that have been restocked with pure strains of Guadalupe bass, but from what I've read about the follow up genetic tests they are cross breeding with largemouths in those river systems as well.

 

[fishinjack]

Probably a hybrid "Smadalupe" bass.  From everything I've read on it the pure guads are gone for the most part.  Supposedly there are a few stretches of rivers that have been restocked with pure strains of Guadalupe bass, but from what I've read about the follow up genetic tests they are cross breeding with largemouths in those river systems as well.

Thats interesting, I always thought that Town lake was one of the few places that you could catch pure strains of Guadalupe bass.  It does appear to have some similar markings of a largemouth.  

 

[Ranger_R77]

nice report..

[highlight]GUADALUPE BASS[/highlight]
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/gdb/

and

[highlight]SPOTTED BASS[/highlight]
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/spb/

and

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/pwdpubs/bkbass_diagrams.phtml

 

[fishinjack]

looks more like a spotted to me.

 

[Bevo]

I've always been told the way to tell the difference between a spotted and guadalupe bass is the broken diamond shaped dark markings of the guad, and the rounded connected dark markings of the spotted.

Either way, pound for pound they fight like champs! I have been embarrassed several times thinking I had a 5 pound LMB on when it ended up being a 1.5 pound guad.

 

[GoneFishin]

Yea nice fish. I enjoy going out to town lake. There is some good quality fish in there.