Largemouth bass.
A large mouth
Largemouth, bucketmouth, bigmouth.
Largemouth can survive in brackish water, but not purely saltwater environments.
A large, powerful member of the sunfish family, the largemouth bass is the most sought after gamefish in the world, stocked in many foreign lands.
The largemouth is the most common and widely distributed of all fresh water gamefish.
im trying to figure out if largemouth bass will bite in a Maryland pond during early February
The largemouth is a common species over its range, which includes much of North America, and introduced elsewhere.
Yes, the largemouth bass has been stocked in many impoundments there, and is thriving.
Sometimes. They have been caught in larger creeks and estuaries, near their confluence with rivers and lakes.
The largemouth bass, Micropterus Salmoides, prefers water temps much warmer than salmon and trout, which are cold water species. Largemouth are most active between 65 and 80 degrees F.
Yes, largemouth are raised in farms for stocking purposes only, not as a food fish, like channel catfish and tilapia are.
Yes. The Florida strain of the largemouth is native to Florida, and grow somewhat larger than the northern fish.