black bass

Largemouth or smallmouth

Black bass refers to several North American freshwater game fish in the sunfish family, including largemouth and smallmouth bass.

Despite the name, they're not true bass.

Prized by anglers for their fighting spirit: We spent the morning fishing for black bass on the lake.

angling

largemouth

Bass species, wide-jawed

casting · spinnerbait · crankbait · topwater · jigging · hookset · catch-and-release · trophy · tournament · baitcasting

biology

largemouth

Bass species, wide-jawed

scales · fins · gills · spawning · nest · fry · forage · crayfish · minnows · invertebrates

habitat

lake

Enclosed body of freshwater

stream · freshwater · structure · cover · lily pads · riparian · shoreline · dropoff · creek · backwater

Categories
Opposites
fish family/taxonomy

black basstrout

Freshwater game fish

salmonids · rainbow trout · brown trout · brook trout · salmon

Family

black, bass, blacken, blackness, blackest, blacker, blackish, blackened, basses

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G