Fish ID

[curtisce]

I was up fishing in South Dakota this last week. The lake that contains mostly smallmouth and some largemouth I caught this smaller bass. The mouth looks smaller than what I would expect for a large mouth but the coloration was certainly more of that of a large mouth. Thinking maybe they were mean mouth what is the opinion of others on the forum?

 

[fishinwrench]

Largemouth.  Fat healthy one !

[Mitch f]

I will say that the scales with the darker periphery above the lateral line look slightly off what I would consider to be the “Model” largemouth look. But in general it looks very largemouth. Maybe it’s just that South Dakota Largies look different than southern largemouth.

[Dutch]

Looks like a lmb to me.

[Al Agnew]

100% largemouth.  And note: on smaller largemouth, especially under about 10-11 inches, the maxillary (upper jaw) does NOT extend beyond the eye.  You cannot use that to ID the little ones.