Bass With Red Eyes??? 2025
OroBass reply :
what kind of bass are these
RoLo reply :
If you were fishing the Coosa River drainage (north Florida / south Georgia)
they could be "redeye bass", which is a separate species of black bass.
Beyond that it could be smallmouth bass or rock bass, but I'd really need a photograph.
Roger
Canyon explorer reply :
I have seen Smallmouth and Meanmouth bass at Bull Shoals Ark. with red eyes. Sweet fish.
MIbassyaker reply :
smallmouth and rock bass have reddish eyes.
LuckyGia reply :
Rock bass. How big was it ?
OroBass reply :
12 inches or so
MIbassyaker reply :
12" would be a pretty big rock bass, possibly trophy-sized.
OroBass reply :
I dont think its a rock bass
corn-on-the-rob reply :
Smallmouth commonly have red eyes in certain areas. Likely just a run of the mill smallie.
Tylertut reply :
Yep, probably a smallmouth. Most of them around me have red eyes, I feel like the smaller ones (where a 12" one would fall) usually do more than the larger ones but that may be because I catch more smaller ones.
Paul Roberts reply :
LM can have red eyes at times too. There was recently a thread on it.
RoLo reply :
On 5/27/2015 at 12:40 PM, Paul Roberts said:LM can have red eyes at times too.
Those are the heavy drinkers
Paul Roberts reply :
Here 'tis:
http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/122013-ever-seen-a-bass-with-red-eyes/page-3
Bluebasser86 reply :
Spotted bass,
smallie
largemouth
OroBass reply :
thanks blue basser^^^^ why would one largmouth have red eyes and another black?
OroBass reply :
and what swim bait is that
WRB reply :
The LMB photo looks a lot like a spotted bass, the dorsal fin is connected.
Orville has several bass specie including Shoal bass that have red eyes.
Tom
Jd_Phillips_Fishin reply :
LMB don't have the red eyes but the spots have them regularly
gobig reply :
If your getting them on oroville its most likely a meanmouth which is a cross between a spot and a smallie.
Bluebasser86 reply :
On 5/28/2015 at 12:26 AM, OroBass said:and what swim bait is that
That's a Dep's Slide Swimmer 175
On 5/28/2015 at 2:08 AM, WRB said:The LMB photo looks a lot like a spotted bass, the dorsal fin is connected.
Orville has several bass specie including Shoal bass that have red eyes.
Tom
No spotted bass in the lake it was caught from. Very few spotted bass anywhere in Kansas in fact.
On 5/28/2015 at 11:41 AM, carolina bassin said:LMB don't have the red eyes but the spots have them regularly
Take a look at page 1 and you can see a picture of a largemouth with red eyes 
. That fish was from April this year at a lake in Kansas.
Bluebasser86 reply :
Largemouth bass from a farm pond.
LM from a powerplant lake
Another PP largemouth
Same place
Beaver Lake LM
What I'm saying is, largemouth can most certainly have red eyes, just like smallmouth and spots.
WRB reply :
I don't recall seeing LMB with red eyes out west, smallmouth and spotted yes.
The photos clearly show LMB with red eyes !
Tom
Jd_Phillips_Fishin reply :
Hmm, I was wrong on that one
BasscatcherPB:12IB reply :
They have red eyes because there getting ready to spawn and thats when I usually see them have red eyes.
Alex from GA reply :
First WRB I'm under the impression Shoal Bass are only in GA and FL. The fish I'm holding is a Shoal Bass from the Chattahoochee River in GA. Some years ago the so called Redeye Bass were broken down into several different species; Shoal, Bartram, Redeye, Chattahoochee, Tallapoosa, etc and they all have their own territory. I have seen all these and LM, spots and smallmouth with red eyes.
soflabasser reply :
There are shoal bass in some parts of Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. The Alabama population is small so not many people catch shoal bass in Alabama.
Alex from GA reply :
You're right, there are tributaries of the Chattahoochee that go into AL. I'm suffering from CRS.
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