Largemouth Bass

The largemouth bass is very popular to eat and very edible. Largemouth bass easily accessible through the world and provide tasty table food you’ll not forget. The largemouth bass has white flaky meat with a tender texture. In different parts of the world and even different parts of the United States the bass taste completely different. However, the taste of a largemouth will very bases on the water it lives in.

Its smell is on the fishy side, again this is based on the water temperature the bass lives is. For example, locations in the South where the water gets warm like the Florida Everglades in Southern Florida. The largemouth taste completely different in the Sumer verse the Winter. Most summertime largemouth bass get worms, more done as parasites. Why anglers still eat them in the summer, these parasites make the fish small more game then it normally is as well the meat will also have less texture during this time.

The good news, bass overall has a good texture and fewer bones than most fish leaving you with more meat. Overwhelmed with how to prepare it, the most popular way to cook it is to fry it with a batter of your choice. Grilling is always good, cuts down on the smell in the house, but beware the fish cooks fast. There are many other recipes here are a few of our favorites.

Largemouth bass fishing is an adventure that takes you from the clear waters of California to the lush lakes of Florida. The best times to fish for these elusive creatures are in the early morning and late afternoon, when they are most active. To catch the big one, you’ll need the right equipment, such as a sturdy rod, quality line, and a variety of lures to entice the bass. Whether you’re casting your line in the sprawling lakes of the Midwest or the hidden coves of the South, the thrill of largemouth bass fishing is an experience like no other.
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What largemouth bass eat? If you are largemouth, smallmouth, or spotted bass, you eat anything that doesn’t try to eat you. This is good to know if you want to catch a bass, because with so many food choices, finding there favorite foods is sometimes not as easy as finding the local bait.

There are many studies on the internet of people examining the contents of the stomachs of bass to learn more about there favorite eating habits. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission is among the leaders in this department considering the biggest and best largemouth bass come from Florida stain bass. They concluded that not only can you determine what the largemouth bass eats, but as with humans is determines the health of the individual bass.

Even without biologists, we know that the diet of the bass is going to be based on the species of bait that live in the waters. Whether the body of water is stocked with shad, herring, trout, or alewives or it has a natural supply of shad, shiners, or crawfish. In most lakes, they don’t have enough food to grow trophy size. This is why, fisheries with a large supply of bait, typically have the bigger fish in your area.

This is why we know that bass also eats what foods are available at the given time. This could be a mouth, other insects, crayfish, frogs, lizards, snakes, other small fish all common for active bass 1 to 3 pounds in size. Larger bass even feeds on baby birds, big bluegills, crappie, and ducks for dinner. It’s also not uncommon for larger bass to eat smaller bass if they feel it is necessary. Survival is the name of the game in the wild.

A lot of the diet is also determined how hard they have to work for it. So if it swims in front of their mouths, it may have just moved up the food change for that day. Largemouth bass especially chooses their meals based on their size, as he grows so does the size of his attacks. This is also very true with Alligators, it’s easier to hunt and eat one big meal.

An example of this would be the largemouth bass in California often eat rainbow trout 8 to 12 inches long. In Florida, it’s not uncommon to find big largemouth bass with 10 to 12-inch gizzard shad in its mouth. Again to properly understand the bass, you must understand the same bass with a 10″ shad in his stomach will have tiny grass shrimp, and minors as proof that bass will eat what nearby when they get hungry.

A condenses around the country, by lure sales. If there were one choice for bass, it would be a threadfin shad.  You can find them in bass stomachs all across the country, they are easier to catch, easier to digest. Which means they can eat more of them.

Bass don’t eat plants and don’t need nutrition from plant matter. They are meat-eaters only!

As the largest guide service in the nation for largemouth bass, we have developed data that there are two basic patterns of bass in every body of water. And when we’re expanding to new areas we start with the easy group first. Known as resident fish.

Resident bass lives in an area all year long, before, and after they spawn, they never leave. These areas could be a main-lake point, grass flats, or a back of a creek. Most local marinas have resident bass under docks and laydowns. For the most part, they never leave there comfort zone for deeper water and are very protective of there area.

They have enough food to eat locally, there’s generally a place to spawn nearby. They are also protected from bigger predators. They have grown there and the habitat suits them, and don’t desire anything else to survive.

Majority of anglers, start by fishing resident fish and don’t know it. That why once you stumble across an area you can catch fish every time you go back. Targeting these fish is an excellent way to enjoy bass fishing and guarantee consistent success. They’ll give you enough action every recreational angler will have fun.

The problem for most anglers are the resident fish aren’t always the biggest and if there is a limited number compared to the family of fish living on the lake.

This second group is the largest population on most bodies of water, lakes like Okeechobee have an overwhelming majority of roamers. These fish live to eat, they don’t really live anywhere. They roam in pairs and schools chasing baitfish, shad, shiners, or crayfish. The only exception is during the spawning months. That’s why a cover can go from no fish to spawning fish everywhere in one day. These are main lake fish, typically lighter in color then a resident fish.

Roamers don’t live in the deeper water or the shallow, they tend to travel where the bait goes and the group. These fish you catch really good today and go back tomorrow and they are gone. But you can pattern these fish over time and with history. For example, you know how the fish school every summer on the point and there for two weeks? The way to pattern roamers to understand where they go and consequentially build a month by month pattern of there migration.

In almost all cases fish are going to be bigger and fight harder than the resident bass. Simply because they eat more and exercise every day. We have no idea why this happens, we just can say we have been going from lake to lake for over 20 years learning the patterns as a business and this is what te data shows as the results we get on our guided trips.

Think about this when fishing your favorite local lake, it works and we hope it does for you!