Spotted Bass?

Does anybody know if there are spotted bass in the Mon?  I caught a small bass today that had red eyes but the colorings were similar to a largemouth.  I'm having trouble identifying it. Maybe a largemouth with red eyes? I never caught one with red eyes before though.

Tons of em, a lot of people do mistake them for largemouth because the color pattern is a lot the same. Some will have red eyes during spawning season. At the Mon I usually catch as many spotties as I do smallies every year. Here's a pic of one my friend caught last week and another of one I caught last fall. 
 


 
 

nightwolf

The more that I think about it, I think it had to be a smallmouth with very light/ green coloring. It almost looked like it had a smallmouth head on a largemouth's body lol. It's good to know that there are spots in the Mon though. Thanks for the responses.

Could be a rock bass Nightwolf, See the picture I attached, There are plenty of RB's in the Mon as well.

luvinbluegills

Definitely a Spotted/Kentucky Bass. The quickest way to identify them is if it looks almost just like a Largemouth, but the rear edge of the mouth does not go past the eye, it's a Spot.

I get quite a few of them in the Ohio, and the South end of the West End Bridge used to give up lots of them.

 The picture shown by skeelol is a spotted....nightwolf didn't post a pic just described it from his description it could be a spotted or rock.

http://fishandboat.com/pafish/id_bass.jpg
 
The bottom is a spotted and the top is a smallie.

I didn't know that smallies had red eyes. I thought only rock bass had that.

bcainI didn't know that smallies had red eyes. I thought only rock bass had that.

 
Smallmouth can have red eyes too. It depends on the fish and the season.
 

I've read things that say the red eyes come in spawning season, but (1) they weren't authoritative sources, and (2) I've caught them with red eyes well out of spawning season. It seems to be something like a genetic variant, or something based on habitat or maybe diet. I'd say a bulk of the smallies I've caught have red eyes. Some have a brownish eye.
 
The fish commission's site says: "The smallmouth’s eye is orange-red."
 
Smallmouth can vary quite a bit in body color, from deep bronze with vertical stripes to a pale green totally devoid of pattern.
 
It's usually best to identify species by things other than color alone when possible.
 
Rock bass have 5-7 spines on the anal fin and a black spot at the end of the gill cover. They also have one solid dorsal fin, while the smallmouth has a bit of a dip in the middle of its dorsal fin.

How bout the Beaver ? Any spot pics from there ?