How to Use black bass in a Sentence

black bass

noun
  • Use any type of soft plastic lures to catch black bass.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Use top-water lures at dawn and dusk for black bass.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Like other black bass, the new species was found in rocky shoals.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Try top-water lures at dawn, dusk and cloudy days for black bass.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The warden found an ice chest with six tilapia, one black bass and a cast net.
    — John Goodspeed, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Spotted, largemouth and smallmouth are the three species of black bass.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Among the main courses is a fine Montauk black bass in beurre blanc, served with cabbage.
    — John Mariani, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Both of these bass are members of the sunfish family, as are also black bass.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Try for black bass at first and last light with top-water lures at all Bella Vista lakes.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Halibut, Lingcod and rockfish such as black bass are here all summer.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • Common whole fish dishes are black bass steamed with ginger and scallions, and sea bass, trout or carp braised in a spicy chile sauce.
    — Minhae Shim Roth, Good Housekeeping, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Next was Laura, who made a black bass recado negro with squash and fried plantain wrapped in a banana leaf.
    — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2024
  • Focused Fishing Guide service said black bass fishing is good.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The kits will feature prime filet mignon, wild black bass, Scottish salmon and more that people can cook easily at home.
    — Veronica Hinke, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Holding any black bass species straight up and down like this produces little to no risk to the fish and minimizes the pressure put on the jaw.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
  • The lake has been restocked with black bass, bluegill, redear bream, and fathead minnows, according to the listing.
    — Gabriel Romero, Chron, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Each dinner includes your choice of starter, a traditional turkey plate, six-hour osso buco or pan-roasted black bass.
    — Jenn Harris Senior Food Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • While there are no less than nine different species of black bass, the largemouth black bass and the smallmouth black bass are the most abundant and widely distributed.
    — Popular Science, 1 June 2020
  • For clarity, the sunfish family also includes the black bass gang, along with the ‘tweener species, like black and white crappie.
    — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Current menu highlights include a bo ssam with pork belly, oysters on the half shell and spicy mustard mignonette, chili lobster ramyun, and black bass and manila clams in a seafood broth.
    — Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Reels, rods, fishing line, leaders, and lures of countless varieties are produced specifically to catch largemouth black bass.
    — Popular Science, 1 June 2020
  • Both species of black bass are found all across the nation in lakes, ponds, canals, rivers, reservoirs, and other bodies of water, with the largemouth being the king of the bass fishing world.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Plus there's an abundance of warm-water fishing opportunities in the clear lakes created by these dams for everything from black bass to stripers to walleye.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Those with a larger afternoon appetite can choose from bigger dishes such as crawfish gratin with frites and black bass served alongside young lettuces, spring peas, tarragon, confit lemon, and beurre blanc.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2023
  • What’s more, the Zara Spook is highly effective at catching a variety of species in both salt and fresh water and not limited to black bass, stripers, pike, and musky.
    — Mark Modoski, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Expect signature dishes of steak tartare, featuring 12-hour roasted tomatoes and served under smoke, whole black bass with olive, citrus, and herbs, lamb chops, cocoa spice, and more.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2022
  • In the next moments, all around me, lines were tight and various species of fish landed on the deck — lingcod, yellow-eye, black bass, even a mottled, black-and-orange, non-pelagic rockfish with venomous quills.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Blackfish has a spring season in Long Island Sound but can be interchanged with fluke, or black bass as well as vegetables and greens that can be changed for any hearty greens in season.
    — Johnny Noakes, Hartford Courant, 20 May 2024
  • The organization says its changes are the result of a recent study published in the American Fisheries Society journal, which reviewed the genetics of black bass species.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 19 June 2024
  • Otherwise, its list of seafood species is a good reason to go out on a boat into the Sound or along the South coast for the springtime migration of striped bass, black bass, bluefish, porgy, weakfish, scup, hickory shad and tautog all ready to bite.
    — John Mariani, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025

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