Spots on Bass??

  • palolo
    Posts: 284
    June 8, 2012 at 8:29 pm #1321602

    What are these spots on bass? Are they smallie/lmb breed? Looks like koi markings. Anyone else ever caught these?

    carroll58
    Twin Cities, USA
    Posts: 2094
    June 8, 2012 at 8:39 pm #1074872

    Contact the DNR Fisheries office.
    Thye should know and would want to know if they don’t already.

    mossydan
    Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    Posts: 7727
    June 8, 2012 at 8:42 pm #1074873

    Did you catch that around here Pal. Where at?

    BBKK
    IA
    Posts: 4033
    June 8, 2012 at 8:50 pm #1074875

    Looks like some kind of color mutation. No smallmouth in that fish.

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
    Posts: 4751
    June 8, 2012 at 9:02 pm #1047112

    Heard about this…here is some info…

    black spot

    red89
    Hudson
    Posts: 918
    June 8, 2012 at 9:27 pm #1074881

    Catch them like that on the mississippi all the time, never on any of the lakes in WI I fish. I have a picture of one I caught that had solid black lips like it was wearing lip stick.

    fishthumper
    Sartell, MN.
    Posts: 11923
    June 8, 2012 at 9:57 pm #1074889

    Not all that uncommon on lakes in the Metro Area. Caught a few with spots like that on Wed. The seem to accure more in the early part of summer.

    palolo
    Posts: 284
    June 8, 2012 at 10:07 pm #1074891

    Quote:

    Contact the DNR Fisheries office.
    Thye should know and would want to know if they don’t already.


    Called DNR and they said its some aquatic parasite but they are safe to eat..I also emailed the pictures of bass to DNR.
    these were caught on pool 9.

    wwayn720
    West central Wi
    Posts: 46
    June 9, 2012 at 4:56 am #1074946

    I am no expert but I would say they are the equivlent of birth marks. Bass seem to get them pretty regularluy but for some reason other fish don’t. Black spot is a parasite that usualy infects panfish and pike but it apears as numorous small spots as each spot it a parasite.

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