I Caught my 1st Coosa Bass !!! AKA Redeye Bass

My First Coosa Bass AKA Redeye Bass !!!

041122 Polk County Georgia

***see video at the bottom***

I will admit that I have somewhat of an Obsession with oddball fish.   Roanoke Bass, Shoal bass etc.  One of my goals or "bucket list" things I would like to accomplish is to catch the Bass Slam.   Now there are several variations of this as Georgia has its own Bass Slam but mine would be to catch all the subspecies of Bass.    Now, I know that I will probably never accomplish this because of time, money, family,work  etc but it is something to strive for. 

Here is what I have caught so far .

Northern largemouth-  Easy for me they are all over here

Florida largemouth- Fairy easy, I go to Florida some and there are a few lakes north of me with them.

Smallmouthbass- Easy for me, I just have to go North or west 1 hr plus of where I live.

Alabama Spotted Bass-  fairly easy for me as they are in a few rivers near me. 

Kentucky Spotted Bass -  Easy for me as they are in the Cape Fear drainage just south of me. 

Shoal bass-  Fairly hard as it is a 6 plus hour ride min for me to get to them

Bartrams bass-  Moderate as I can get to them in just under 4 hours.

Now there are 7 variations/subspecies of the "Redeye bass" and I hope to get all of them as well.

Right now I have caught 2 of them,  the Bartrams and the Redeye

There is a a least one Blog post here on all the above sub species.  look on the side bar of my main page to see the subtitles. 

The last subspecies that I have caught is the Coosa Bass found in the Coosa/Etowah Drainage in Alabama and Georgia, This is/was a 7hr ride for me.   April the 11th 2022 I made it happen and here is the video and some pictures.

I caught 3 on this day but my goal was to catch 1 so I succeeded. 

Here is the area I fished 

My first Coosa Bass

My second one which had better colors.

Then My third Coosa Bass which by all accounts is a true Monster for the species. 

You can see how fat she is 

A cool little  dam on Euharlee Creek

These Coosa Bass will hit anything a Largemouth/Smallmouth will hit but it is best to downsize for them as they are rarely over 12 inches.  I spoke to well known Bioligist that has studied them and every one of the seven subspecies of Redeye they have found over 13-14 inches is a Hybid and not a pure fish.  I had my best luck using the F7 Rapala Original Floating Minnow. 

Get the Rapala F7 Minnow here - https://amzn.to/3iy7oED

Be sure to watch my Youtube Adventure catching some Coosa Bass

My next quest is either the Chatahoochee Bass or the Suwannee Bass.

I hope everyone who read this learned something and please leave comments here and on Youtube and please dont forget to subscribe to this blog and my YT channel to get notifications.

***also is you have access to catch one of the odd ball species I would luv to join you on a trip one day. 

A great read on Redeye Bass Fishing.  Geared for the flyfisherman it is still a great read for the Spin fisherman.

Fly Fishing For Redeye Bass  - https://amzn.to/3KBdMXF

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