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 how about the effect on the premiere species, smallmouth bass?
    David Peterson, Arkansas Online, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Though smaller in size than the largemouth, the smallmouth bass is no less of a gamefish.
    Popular Science, 1 June 2020
  • Most anglers catch and release the steelhead trout and the smallmouth bass.
    D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 12 May 2022
  • Straight Worm is one of my favorite smallmouth bass baits.
    Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 28 Feb. 2023
  • To pick up the slack, smallmouth bass have been moving into the Northeast Ohio rivers to spawn.
    D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 12 May 2022
  • 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
  • The smallmouth bass run on the Rocky and Chagrin rivers is just getting started.
    D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Big pike, walleyes, and largemouth and smallmouth bass add space to this fishery.
    Steve Quinn, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2020
  • The river fishing is still good, though, for big smallmouth bass.
    cleveland, 20 May 2021
  • 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
  • At Beaver Lake, largemouth bass and smallmouth bass must be 15 inches or longer to keep.
    Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 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
  • And anything that will put smallmouth bass on your line is worth doing.
    Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Fishing is good for landlocked salmon, lake trout, white perch, and smallmouth bass.
    Virginia M. Wright, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Let the current do the work and reel in those Buffalo River smallmouth bass.
    Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The few who were fishing were able to get smallmouth bass from 1 to 2 1/2-pounds using nightcrawlers near the Cascade shoreline.
    sacbee, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Those on the trip spent their nights camping on gravel bars, and their days catching smallmouth bass.
    Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Could humans be following in the wake of smallmouth bass?
    M. Boone Mattia, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
  • For bass, topwater baits appear to be the bait of choice, at 5-10 feet for smallmouth bass and in thick weedbeds for largemouth bass.
    Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Despite the world-class fishing found in the Ozarks, the pursuit of trout and smallmouth bass may not be the region’s favorite pastime.
    T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 9 June 2020
  • When the rivers finally clear again, the smallmouth bass will be back in the lower stretches of the Lake Erie tributaries.
    D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 28 June 2019
  • Bass spearfishing: Has again opened on the Coquille River for smallmouth bass.
    Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 10 June 2023
  • The smallmouth bass fishing has been good around the Northeast Ohio harbor areas.
    D'arcy Eagan, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • This included 21 trophy-sized smallmouth bass and a brown trout, along with dozens of suckers and carp.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 14 June 2023
  • The annual spring surge of smallmouth bass and white suckers up the Cleveland area rivers has begun, as well.
    cleveland.com, 3 May 2018
  • The jointed minnow is one of my favorite lures for catching smallmouth bass on the Snake River.
    Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Walleyes, along with smallmouth bass and crappies, are in depths of 12 to 20 feet, because the forage has remained shallow.
    Joel Rippel, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • Two smallmouth bass — one 9 ½ inches and the other 13 — dangled among four other fish snared in the webbing.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2022

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