The Largemouth Bass

Scientific-Name Context

The inventory retains Micropterus salmoides. Recent classifications apply that name to Florida Bass and use Micropterus nigricans for the northern Largemouth Bass lineage. Older broad accounts use salmoides differently, so their range-wide measurements should not be silently reassigned to one newly delimited species.

Cover and Feeding

Traditional largemouth accounts describe predators using vegetation, wood, banks and other cover. Fish and crustaceans feature in the diet, with prey choice changing as fish grow. The location of cover and available food helps explain where an individual bass holds within a lake or river.

Reproduction and Size

Males prepare and guard nests and attend young during early development. The retained compiled size references belong to the traditional broad account. A modern catch record requires locality and lineage evidence before it can establish an upper size for either currently separated species.

All Lakes With Largemouth Bass

Browse all lakes and reservoirs with confirmed Largemouth Bass records in our database, listed alphabetically.

Showing 1–24 of 38,015 lakes · Page 1 of 1,584

• 13 Reservoir Washington, WI
• 144 Reservoir Dodge, WI
• 20 Reservoir Jackson, WI
• 28 Tank Yavapai, AZ
• 3 Reservoir Adams, WI
• 4-B Farms Reservoir Marion, OR
• A A Rauchfuss Lake Caldwell, NC
• A L Chaffin Dam Butte, CA
• A M Tucks Pond Greenwood, SC
• A One Lake Apache, AZ
• A Reservoir Baker, OR
• A S Smoak Pond Calhoun, SC
• A S U Lake Watauga, NC
• A W Dale Lake Montgomery, AL
• A. J. Jolly Lake Campbell, KY
• A1 Site Worcester, MA
• Aalvic Wahtum Skamania, WA
• Aamodt Dairy Reservoir Clackamas, OR
• Aarhus Reservoir Marion, OR
• Aaron Mercer Reservoir Polk, OR
• Aaron River Reservoir Norfolk, MA
• Aarons Lake Columbia, OR
• Abbot Lake Clatsop, OR
• Abbotsford Pond Marathon, WI