sometimes you see pics off fat bass caught in Florida and stuff that live in heavy vegetation, but they are usually black bug-eyed sows. The yellow color, at least from what I can figure, comes from something they have eaten- The big bass you see out west seem to be green, and pretty light colored, maybe a lot of dark in their markings, but not any yellow. Trout eating girls that roam and forage in open water are never yellow. Even the Delta frog fish are dark, but not yellow. Something in the diet of that 17 lber. makes her different- Props to that guy for catching her on a fly, that is all time- and the fact he cared more about her then himself is great. Epic catch.