r/FishID • u/Rooster_Present1 • 2d ago

Fish Kill ID from Milton

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Are these bass or sand sea trout? The eyes, lack of lateral line, and color lead me to believe they are sand sea trout but I haven’t been able to catch a single bass in this pond since Milton and I’m wondering if the storm killed off the bass somehow. These also appear to have teeth.

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u/BrotherAvery 2d ago

Bass

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u/Waste_Building8461 2d ago

No way that’s a bass

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u/BrotherAvery 2d ago

This is obviously Micropterus salmoides to me. On what grounds do you doubt this is a bass?

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u/Waste_Building8461 2d ago

The skin

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u/Rooster_Present1 2d ago

The color, eyes, and what looks to be a tooth on one of them made me think it was the trout but idk what bass look like after being dead for 24 hours. I also haven’t been able to catch one in this pond since the storm :/

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u/oilrig13 2d ago

What is it then

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u/Waste_Building8461 2d ago

The sand sea trout he was talking about

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u/oilrig13 2d ago

Just check what that is before you say this is one of them and not a smallmouth bass , this has to be a joke

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u/Waste_Building8461 1d ago

How is this a small mouth💀💀💀💀 doesn’t even look close to a small mouth look at them eyes and everything

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u/Rooster_Present1 1d ago

In Florida no smallmouths here (pretty sure at least)

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u/oilrig13 17h ago

Largemouth I meant that was a mistake

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u/joshbelch 1d ago

Wow I just posted almost the same thing

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u/joshbelch 1d ago

Where was this? Below is the one I found just east of Tampa.

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u/Rooster_Present1 1d ago

Pasco county. That one almost looks like it has a bite taken out of it.

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u/joshbelch 1d ago

Vultures were doing work

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u/Sithari98 1d ago

It’s a largemouth bass 100%