The small mouthed black bass is often called " red eye " by many anglers.
Range
The original range of the small mouthed black bass was probably restricted to the Great Lakes region, the northern parts of the Mississippi and Ohio valleys and perhaps the headwaters of certain Allegheny streams. Frank Forester in his " Fish and Fishing " says that the black bass was found in the basin of the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes and was distributed in New York via the Erie Canal which was opened in 1825. We know that the small mouthed black bass was introduced into the Potomac in the early fifties and in other Eastern rivers soon after. Since then his range has been greatly extended by transplanting in most of the cold water streams of northern U. S. and Canada and in several European countries.
