Cedar Creek Area 4/21

what a fat Kentucky! nice meanmouth! thanks for posting!

1 hour ago, Fish24/7 said:

what a fat Kentucky! nice meanmouth! thanks for posting!

So it is a Meanmouth? I wasn't sure since I'm not familiar with the smallmouth looks in that area. How can you tell for sure? I didn't think to check for a tongue patch. 

Here's another picture 

https://www.google.com/search?q=mean+mouth+bass&rlz=1C1AOHY_enUS709US710&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMtvWKv87aAhWomeAKHauEDzEQ_AUICigB&biw=1093&bih=476

 

true spots don't have vertical markings like that, I've caught 1 out of Bull, looked exactly like that one, same size and everything

 I'm not a big bass fisherman,  but I would call that a smallmouth. I attached a pic of a smallmouth that my wife caught below powersite a few years ago. Only could find a black and white version, but it still shows the markings. 

Navery, I'm not really sure what smallmouth typically look like in that area so I wasn't sure. I'm not used to catching many smallmouth and the ones I have caught in this area never had the vertical stripes. I know they do in other areas, but I'm just used to the almost straight bronze look. 

Regardless both of these fish are beautiful.