How to Use smallmouth bass in a Sentence

smallmouth bass

noun
  • And now, the state record for smallmouth bass has been bested.
    — Joseph Albanese, Field & Stream, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Plenty of largemouth and a few smallmouth bass came to the scales.
    — sacbee, 15 Jan. 2018
  • And anything that will put smallmouth bass on your line is worth doing.
    — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 1 Mar. 2021
  • And how about the effect on the premiere species, smallmouth bass?
    — David Peterson, Arkansas Online, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Largemouths do grow larger than smallmouth bass, and can weigh twice as much.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The river fishing is still good, though, for big smallmouth bass.
    — cleveland, 20 May 2021
  • Big pike, walleyes, and largemouth and smallmouth bass add space to this fishery.
    — Steve Quinn, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2020
  • Fishing is good for landlocked salmon, lake trout, white perch, and smallmouth bass.
    — Virginia M. Wright, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2021
  • This August slump is one of the reasons the smallmouth bass are here.
    — Hank Bradshaw, Outdoor Life, 24 June 2026
  • Most anglers catch and release the steelhead trout and the smallmouth bass.
    — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 12 May 2022
  • Though smaller in size than the largemouth, the smallmouth bass is no less of a gamefish.
    — Popular Science, 1 June 2020
  • Those on the trip spent their nights camping on gravel bars, and their days catching smallmouth bass.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Crayfish are one of the smallmouth bass’ primary food sources.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 23 May 2024
  • Like smallmouth bass, adult walleyes have been spotted below the dam, though they are not yet known to have spawned there.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2022
  • The lake is home to a wide variety of fish—smallmouth bass, walleye, and northern pike to name a few.
    — Outside Online, 2 June 2022
  • These crustaceans are a favorite food of largemouth and smallmouth bass, but trophy brown trout slurp them up, too.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 9 Jan. 2023
  • That means salmon and trout are going to have less habitat, and will be replaced by warm-water fish like smallmouth bass.
    — Rocky Barker, idahostatesman, 7 May 2018
  • Absent the commotion, smallmouth bass feed freely throughout the day.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 23 July 2023
  • These are irresistible to smallmouth bass, big crappies, largemouths, and trout.
    — Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • The smallmouth bass run on the Rocky and Chagrin rivers is just getting started.
    — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • When the waters are calm and clear, good numbers of smallmouth bass, catfish and panfish are being caught.
    — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 14 June 2019
  • Baits in this size range can be used to target spotted, largemouth, and smallmouth bass in almost any body of water.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 30 May 2024
  • To pick up the slack, smallmouth bass have been moving into the Northeast Ohio rivers to spawn.
    — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 12 May 2022
  • At Beaver Lake, largemouth bass and smallmouth bass must be 15 inches or longer to keep.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Black bass – will be good over the next couple of weeks with the smallmouth bass moving into rocky and sandy coves for their annual spawn.
    — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 2 May 2018
  • Let the current do the work and reel in those Buffalo River smallmouth bass.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The annual spring surge of smallmouth bass and white suckers up the Cleveland area rivers has begun, as well.
    — cleveland.com, 3 May 2018
  • As the agency pointed out, the fact that smallmouth bass are spawning in creeks this time of year made their removal by cast net even more troubling.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 14 June 2023
  • The smallmouth bass fishing has been good around the Northeast Ohio harbor areas.
    — D'arcy Eagan, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • One hit came in the form of a smallmouth bass invasion in the Lees Ferry stretch just upstream of the park.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2023

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