Started fishing this am at about 9:30. By noon I think I had landed one fish but had 2or 3 get off.
At about 12:30 the water had warmed up and so did the fish. I then landed about 20 rock bass, about 10 largemouth and one bluegill. Funny thing is I have only caught one rock bass in this pond in 3 years of fishing it. They were all in one spot, I guess spawning? They hit pretty hard(for rock bass).
That mark below his lip is 10" 
Looks like you had fun. Good photos!
Nice fish! I tied into a bunch of rock bass earlier this year too. Theyāre a lot of fun.
Jeff
Good day there, great photos!
Awesome fish!! I think that you may have just made my decision to move out that way a WHOLE lot easier!!!
Thanks for posting!
There are some big bream in this area. Good bass fishing and about 3-4 hours away some world-class trout fishing. I will admit right where I live might not be the prettiest of places to live(NO MOUNTAINS!) but it isnāt bad.
Due to an āabundanceā of rain here in SW MO, ponds are about all thatās available, but theyāre full of bluegill of good size & are fun on a 3wt rod. My 5yo g son is also hooked. Maybe Iāve found a fishin partner. Not many, here use fly gear to go after em.
It may not matter at all, and I may be wrongā¦but I think what youāve got there is a Warmouth, not a Rock Bass. Heck, it may even be a hybrid warmouth x bluegill? :rolleyes:
You may be right. It doesnāt have the correct number of free spines on the fins for a rock bass. It doesnāt look like the pictures of warmouth I have seen however. The warmouth pictures I have seen look āthickerā than these fish are. They look and act just like the rock bass I have caught locally in other waters. They are much darker than that photo. The flash from the camera really brightened it up. You couldnāt tell it had red eyes with natural lighting.
Is it possible they are a hybrid of the bass and bluegill? Crappie and bluegill? Bass and crappie? Is that even possible?
The only fish in this pond(or the ones Iāve caught or seen) are LM Bass, bluegill, crappie and carp.
Looks like what I grew up calling a Goggle-eye. I had thought that Goggle-eye and Warmouth were the same thing. (I think I even read it on FAOL.)
Kirk
Warmouth and Goggle-eye are the same according to:
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/war/
It has a variety of names (including Rock Bass).
The description there says that males have a bright orange spot at the base of their dorsal finā¦and the one in the pic below has just such a spotā¦though the orange stripe behind the blue tab on its gills looks like a female redear (they have orange instead of red according to the site listed above).
There are enough visual oddities with that fish that a hybrid seems pretty much mandatoryā¦
(I am NOT a biologist of any sort)
Iāve only caught warmouth in pondsā¦and rock bass only from streams.
Thatās a great clue, that red spot on the backā¦I never knew about that! I learned something!! 
The last two sentences in the Life History section would seem to contradict that. āWarmouth are often confused with rock bass. The difference between the two is in the anal fin: warmouth have three spines on the anal fin ray and rock bass have six spines.ā
Good catch! I was going by what it said in the first and last paragraph where it lists alternate names. Perhaps itās commonly mis-IDād as a rock bass and thus called that inappropriately?
The one in the pic in this thread appears to have 3 (like the pic on the site I linked to) so warmouth would be a better ID (again) than rock bass.
Thanks for catching that.
Warmouth
Rock Bass
Green Sunfish
The cheek markings on the Warmouth is another quick identifier, I think.
Nice pics, FishnDave. Thanks for posting them.