Feb 28, 2009

Largemouth Bass Aka The Black Bass

There is a sport called large mouth bass fishing that lives and thrives all across America and is growing in popularity everyday. It has a huge following from small children to grown men and women. All across this country countless individuals are chasing this species of bass or also known as the black bass or large mouth bass.

There are thousands of lakes, rivers, and ponds in any state that are just stocked full of large mouth bass. Day in and day out this fish species is difficult to find and catch.One day they are in one place eating one type of bait and you can catch them and the next day they are gone. Large mouth bass like to be in a position to attack aggressively, it is a master of ambush an intimidator and a eating machine with very little fear of anything that swims in fresh water. It rules it's under water world, from a spot at the top of the food chain. It is capable of very rapid acceleration, and extreme maneuverability for its body size enabling it to capture prey in close quarters and around under water structure.

All of their senses, seeing, tasting, smelling, and hearing are all targeted to one thing, the detection of prey. Bass hone in on erratic behavior in prey. Anything that may be hurt or injured. They have almost 360 degrees of visual awareness.There teeth are very tiny almost like sandpaper, but they do have powerful crushers in the back of there throat, that enables them to hold there prey brought in by there over sized large mouth.

The bass has been described as a eating machine that will eat anything that won't eat him first. Bass swallow there food whole and can engulf creatures half there size. In the united states alone, over twenty-five million people fish fresh water, and more of them fish for large mouth bass than any other species. It's a fish that has a sixty billion dollar effect on the economy of the united states. There are high stakes tournaments where a bass angler can win upwards of one hundred thousand dollars, just for a single tournament and there are countless other weekend tournaments for the weekend angler as well. To the millions of people that pursue the large mouth bass, just to catch it and release it alive is the ultimate prize.

By Brian Kissinger

Brian K. You can learn more about Largemouth Bass Fishing by visiting my blog @ http://bassfishingreviews.blogspot.com and thank you for reading.

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