Meanmouth Bass

[Walcrabass]

Everyone,

  I would like to see some info on the Meanmouth Bass thing. I have looked up a little bit on the internet but would like to see SCIENTIFIC DATA presented by others. To my friend Straw Hat............ this should be right up your alley. I know you have the knowledge to find some data for us.

 Specifically I would like to see info concerning the origination of the name, the "eye color thing", and if what we call a meanmouth bass today is the same creature that it was originally.

Any state biologists/university biology professors please feel free to comment.

 

Walcrabass

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10 minutes ago, Walcrabass said:

Any state biologists/university biology professors please feel free to comment.

I think he's looking for Wrench

[fishinwrench]

Speaking of Mean mouths ^^^^  

[Flysmallie]

47 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I think he's looking for Wrench

That is hilarious.

[fishinwrench]

Ya know,  one of my very best buddies is a fisheries biologist that teaches at a university here in Mo.   We used to argue all the time until we began fishing together alot.  I've lost count of the times I've been able to smile and say "whaddaya think NOW, Professor?". 

He keeps his students far far away from me. He won't even take their calls when I'm within earshot.

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17 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

He won't even take their calls when I'm within earshot.

Not just him I bet

[fishinwrench]

 

1 hour ago, Walcrabass said:

 

Any state biologists/university biology professors please feel free to comment.

 

Walcrabass

You won't get those guys to post anything on here.    PM me your number and I'll have one call you. 

OR....Seriously....just Google it.  They aren't going to tell you anything that can't be googled.

[Walcrabass]

Fishnwrench,

  I appreciate your help on the matter. I have Googled it some already and have gotten some conflicting info. I would really like to see something form the Scientific Community written here with the testing etc. to back it up.

Wally

[bfishn]

Just do a Google Scholar search. You'll get nothing but scientific papers as results (many of which you'll have to pay for to read more than a preview of). Here's the results page for 'smallmouth bass hybrid';

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGHP_enUS669US669&q=smallmouth+bass+hybrid

You can tweak your search terms to suit from that page. You'll not get many results for the lay term "meanmouth", which has no meaning of value to a biologist. One that you may find will differ from the cross as commonly identified on this forum. But hey, they're just highly trained folks with an exceptional interest in the subject matter... what would they know... :-) 

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10 minutes ago, bfishn said:

But hey, they're just highly trained folks with an exceptional interest in the subject matter... what would they know... :-) 

WRENCH!!!