{"id":70549,"date":"2019-04-10T18:37:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T23:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/?p=70549"},"modified":"2019-04-10T18:37:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T23:37:17","slug":"meanmouth-invasion-of-tennessee-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/meanmouth-invasion-of-tennessee-river\/","title":{"rendered":"MEANMOUTH INVASION OF TENNESSEE RIVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEANMOUTH INVASION OF TENNESSEE RIVER?<\/p>\n<p>At a glance, the fish looked like a typical broad-shouldered smallmouth bass of about 5 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>But angler Rick Hart doesn&#8217;t just glance at the fish he catches. He studies them, both their behavior and appearance. He moved from Missouri to northern Alabama years ago with the objective of pursuing a state record smallmouth bass in the Tennessee River system, specifically tailwaters below Wheeler and Wilson dams. He&#8217;s since caught and examined hundreds of smallies weighing up to 7 pounds and more.<\/p>\n<p>And Hart noted something odd about this fish. It didn&#8217;t have the chameleon-like coloring with bars that Tennessee River smallmouths typically do. Even more shocking, it had a lateral line. His curiosity piqued, the angler looked inside the fish&#8217;s mouth and found a tooth patch on the tongue, a defining trait of spotted bass.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Meanmouth 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/whywefish\/posts\/2495648270480666?__tn__=K-R\"><strong>MEANMOUTH INVASION OF TENNESSEE RIVER?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70550 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/56679371_2495646830480810_7193066096100900864_n-499x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/56679371_2495646830480810_7193066096100900864_n-499x600.jpg 499w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/56679371_2495646830480810_7193066096100900864_n-768x923.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/56679371_2495646830480810_7193066096100900864_n-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/56679371_2495646830480810_7193066096100900864_n.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70551 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/57083577_2495647857147374_3349845629252665344_n-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/57083577_2495647857147374_3349845629252665344_n-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/57083577_2495647857147374_3349845629252665344_n-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/57083577_2495647857147374_3349845629252665344_n-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/57083577_2495647857147374_3349845629252665344_n.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEANMOUTH INVASION OF TENNESSEE RIVER? At a glance, the fish looked like a typical broad-shouldered smallmouth bass of about 5 pounds. But angler Rick Hart doesn&#8217;t just glance at the fish he catches. He studies them, both their behavior and appearance. He moved from Missouri to northern Alabama years ago with the objective of pursuing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":70550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70552,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70549\/revisions\/70552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}