1. Matt Gjerulff, Recreational Angler
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posted on:  , 2012

Spotted Bass?

Type:
Region: Central
Location: Montgomery County

My cousin Alex caught two of these guys.


DNR Answer: It�s a largemouth bass with spots. The spots are the fish equivalent to freckles. Fisheries biologists call them hyperpigmented melanosis and they are not indicative of anything harmful to the fish.

Don Cosden,
MD DNR Chief of Inland Fisheries