MI Fish Finder - Largemouth Bass Details

Name:

Largemouth Bass

Water Type:

freshwater

Latin Name:

Micropterus salmoides

Common Names:

Black Bass, Big Mouth, Bucket Mouth, Moss Back, Larry Lunker

Ideal Water Temp:

52-75 degrees F

World Record:

George Perry 1932, 22 1/4lbs, Montgomery Lake, Georgia

Description:

The Largemouth Bass, also called Black Bass, is a highly valued game fish. It thrives best in warm, shallow, weedy, mud bottomed lakes, ponds and sluggish streams. It is a solitary fish and spends most of it's time lurking among aquatic vegetation or under overhanging banks and structures such as logs, ledges and wharves, waiting for it's prey to swim by. Largemouth Bass seldom move into open water, usually keeping to deeper water during the winter where it seeks shelter near the bottom. It remains more active than the Smallmouth and is occasionally taken through the ice. While a good eating fish, it sometimes has a weedy flavor, especially during the summer months.
The Largemouth Bass will eat almost anything it can catch including insects, fish, crawfish, frogs, snails, mice, lizards and snakes. Therefore, it may be best taken with popper lures and plastic worms, although streamer flies and trolled lures will also catch fish. Fishing open spaces among lily pads, around stumps and sunken logs or among overhangs is most effective. Most feeding occurs in early morning and evening. A 5-6 pound fish is considered large in NH waters, although 7-8 pound fish are occasionally taken. A 10.5 pound lunker was caught at Lake Potanipo in Brookline, NH for the state record way back in 1967.

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Added by natickguy from the trip entitled 09/05/10 - Flint Pond / Quinsigamond - Worcester, MA

Only fish of the day
Added by fishingreek from the trip entitled Just one of those days!!

Larry Charles Jr.
Added by bigtuna from the trip entitled Larry Wins Another One (Charles River 9/3/10)

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9/1/10 - Somewhere on the Northshore
15" 1-3/4lb Largemouth
Added by meat7gtk from the trip entitled 9/1/10 - Secret Spot on the Northshore

Blue Balls Lunker
Added by angler21 from the trip entitled Blue Balls Lagoon Lunker

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8/29/10 - Singletary Lake - Keeper Largemouth
2lb 3oz Largemouth in Picture
Added by meat7gtk from the trip entitled 8/29/10 - MAFISHFINDER.COM Tourney @ Singletary Lake - Millbury, MA

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