I don't know Ric. I've seen different colored smallmouth from the same body of water. As a taxidermist I have to ask the customers what color phase their smallmouth was as they vary so much.

My warmwater pond has smallmouth and they were a drab green when I had a strong algae bloom , however recently the water cleared up drastically and they became a little lighter with striking markings. Most of the smallmouth I see in my area which is primarily natural lakes have a green color to them.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.