Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Warmouth

Yeah caught a lot of Rock Bass up North for sure. Rock Bass are kind of brownish in color and have very distinct red eyes. I have heard a lot of people down here in Arknasas call them Warmouth. I was brought up to believe they were Rock Bass. The only place I have caught them down here though are in deeper colder lakes.

I thought they were the same fish as well. Looking at pics on the internet, I'm catching Warmouth.

CJ (criminal justice) -- you probably are right on the warmouth and the abundant bass. A lot of the black and white crappie state records come from ponds, too. Often, the records come from ponds where the owner didn't even know they had that species (Don Gabelhouse found that out while working on a lmb-crappie study for the Central States Small Impoundment Work Group quite a few years ago). Anyway, low density, plenty of bass, and an occasional catch of a large sunfish or crappie is probably right.

Thanks everyone.

There is a 4-5 acre pond near me that was subject to a recent fish kill.

Anyway it used to a private pond until it was sold to the local government.

It had warmouth, bluegill and redear in the pond along with carp and largemouth bass.

I only knew of two warmouth to come out of the pond but when I saw the killed fish there were more warmouth than I thought. Not as many as the bluegill or redear but more than I figured would be in there.

I was just wondering if warmouth would make a good auxillary fish for lm bass besides bluegill

We would catch them on minnows

Depends on your goals... If you want a bonus species, they are an option. However I think they compete with LMB to an even greater extent than GSF do and provide limited forage as their reproductive rates are even less than GSF are.

Thanks

Not a big fan of lmb