This was the best looking 11" Coppernose I had today....

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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on September 30, 2012 at 3:48pm

You're right Jeff...everything you catch in these waters is darker......Coppernose just do great in these dark brackish waters......We'll be done here in a few weeks though because they are not active once the water gets below 55 degrees......So I'm squeezing in a few more trips before it's hard water time for our friends up North.....

Comment by Jeff Soto on September 30, 2012 at 3:19pm

Oh wow!  Looks like tea!  Seems to me I have fished somewhere at some time in my life where the water was like that, and all the bass we caught were really dark, just like your Bluegill.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on September 30, 2012 at 2:35pm

You can tell by this picture of a release Jeff....very tanic with maybe a foot or less visibility....Dark, Dark.......

Comment by Jeff Soto on September 30, 2012 at 2:31pm

What is the water like?  What color.. very tannic?  What is the visibility?

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on September 30, 2012 at 12:37pm

I still love the blue tint on several that you have featured Jeff....all the big ones in my swamp waters are just black.....the ear tab even blends in on many of them....

Comment by Jeff Soto on September 30, 2012 at 12:27pm

Those are really dark fish.  No light edges on the fins either, like we get with our west coast coppernose.