Biggest spot

[Lvn2Fish]

4 minutes ago, MOsmallies said:

Daaaammmmnn!!! That is an awesome spot!!!! I wish more of them got to this size! What a tank!

It was one of those days! there really is nothing like seeing a spot like this come up by the boat. These fish this day were gorging on very cold slow shad . 

 

[Hog Wally]

6 hours ago, Al Agnew said:

As far as I'm concerned, anglers should think about keeping spotted bass up to the legal limit regularly in places where the limit on them is different from what it is on the other bass species, because there are reasons for that.  In the streams of the Meramec Basin, spots compete with smallmouth so much that it seems like every spot you kill means room for another smallmouth.  And in some of the reservoirs, the slower growing spots outcompete the other species as well.  A blanket 15 inch length limit on bass means that the spots, which are far less likely to make it to 15 inches, survive at much higher rates.  On the other hand, in streams where they are native, spotted bass are just as worthy of respect as smallmouth or largemouth.

As I think about it, I remember catching a number of spots between 17 and 18 inches, but I don't think I've ever caught one over 18.  Nearly every one of those bigger ones I've caught was fat and healthy, so I've probably caught a bunch of 3 to 3.5 pound spots.  But nothing like those two I caught below Clearwater that time.

I'm preparing spotted bass tacos for my girls as I type this.  These spots are better than crappie. 

[Smalliebigs]

lots and lots of river spots around 17 inches.....I think once I caught an 18 incher. They are beautifully colored in the Winter but, honestly just a pest for me personally.

The Fourth pic is from today

[JestersHK]

Here's a fat spot caught down on Taneycomo last June.  Was a chunky little guy.

[Flysmallie]

I like spots. Lots of them in the rivers I fish. 

[dtrs5kprs]

2 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

I like spots. Lots of them in the rivers I fish. 

It's a bass, and it pulls, so all is well for me. 

[Ham]

21 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

My biggest spot was just over 8 inches long. I caught it while pier fishing on Wrightsville Beach, NC. I was fishing bloodworms off the bottom. Sorry I don't have a picture.

Pics or it didn't happen John.

 

[Ham]

19 1/2 on Bull Shoals dragging a tube in about 25 FOW

[Johnsfolly]

8 minutes ago, Ham said:

Pics or it didn't happen John

Well maybe it was a true croaker and not a spot. You know that those are hard to tell apart. Your 19.5 " spotted bass is a pretty nice fish.

[Ham]

Just now, Johnsfolly said:

Well maybe it was a true croaker and not a spot. You know that those are hard to tell apart. Your 19.5 " spotted bass is a pretty nice fish.

Cmon back to Mtn Home in April and you'll get your spot and have a shot at 4 trout species. We'll get you a Ozark bass in Norfork Lake. I know just the spot for it.