Large Mouth Bass

This is a large mouth bass.

The large mouth bass also has a nickname being "bucket mouth." They call it that because it can swallow large sized prey. They are a slight green to olive green in color with a whiteish or yellowish belly. It has a broad black stripe, or a line of broken splotches from head to tail running back it's sides.

The large mouth bass prefers warmer waters in ponds or small weedy lakes, though they can be found in rivers as well, and coves of larger lakes. You can usually find large mouth bass in weeds, soft bottoms, and around stumps or fallen logs. They are rarely found in rocky areas or extremely deep waters.

They spawn in the spring and early summer. They can lay 2,000 to 7,000 eggs per pound of their body weight. Eggs hatch within ten days. Young large mouths stay at the bottom of their nest for about a week. The male will guard them for about a month. Young bass feed on insects and small fish. Adult large mouth are preditors and eat mostly fish, crayfish, frogs, snakes, even small animals or birds. (mice and ducklings)

Large mouth feed both day and night. They will strike on a wide variety of lures. Large mouth strike for several different reasons. That is being aggitated, hungry, or simply because they are territorial.

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