Largemouth Bass
Micropterus salmoides
For largemouth and smallmouth bass, minimum length limit = 14 inches. No minimum length limit for Alabama, Guadalupe, and spotted bass. Daily bag limit for all black bass species is 5 in any combination.
Identify your catch
The upper jaw extends behind the eye. A dark lateral band runs along the side.
Habitat on Worth
Standing timber, boathouses, docks, piers, rocky shoreline and brush provide habitat.
Fishing approach
Lake guide guidance: TPWD describes bass near rocky banks and boathouses, crappie near reed beds and dock brush, spring white bass upriver, and catfish throughout the reservoir.
Fishing guidance describes documented approaches, not a promise of fish activity today.
This lake has an active advisory, but this fish is not named in its species rows. That does not establish that it is safe to eat.
Harvest permission and eating restrictions are separate.
General species guide
Often uses vegetation, woody cover and relatively quiet water. Adults eat fish and other aquatic prey.
General Largemouth Bass profile →Sources & lake evidence
TPWD lake guide and reviewed fisheries evidence establish the listed species or group. Historical survey records do not establish current abundance.
Lake harvest rules ↗Eating guidance ↗Lake habitat & fishing guide ↗Fisheries survey · species evidence ↗Species identification ↗