Smallmouth Bass - Still Swimmin
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Smallmouth Bass - Still Swimmin
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Wood
Description
This is a 10 inch long smallmouth bass, micropterus dolomieu, painted on a slab of black walnut taken from a tree cut down on Jack and Golda Brydon's property in Schomberg. This fish doesn't have to swim - it floats anyway.
Smallmouth bass characteristics:
green to olive back and sides
yellow to white belly
body often has dark vertical broken bars
9 to 11 dorsal fin spines
shallow notch between dorsal fins
upper jaw does not extend beyond eye
jump out of the water like Polaris missiles
Now for some science... As spring advances, bass start preparing for the spawning season. Bass feed heavily prior to the spawning ritual because they know that during the 10 to 14 days of spawning they will not feed at all. As the water warms above 50 degrees Fahrenheit, bass change their primary forage to a high-protein diet. One can use a can-opener to catch bass both before and during the nesting season when the male fish aggressively defends the nest. Angling for bass weeks prior to the official season opening pulls the male fish off the nesting beds. The eggs and fry are consumed within a couple of minutes and certainly within the time frame it takes for the fish selfie image on-board the boat. Taking fish selfies constitutes angling and is a chargeable offence. Some of these fish are kept illegally for early season fish fries as enforcement of the game laws is almost non existent. A study conducted in Charleston Lake examined how handling stress and brood predation associated with spring catch‐and‐release angling influenced parental care behaviors. Ultimately angled bass were less willing or less able to defend their broods. The male smallmouth bass typically just abandoned their nest.
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March 12th, 2019
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