FORT WORTH, Texas — Yellow bass are little fish that are little known and have little attraction for most Texas anglers. However, for anglers in the know, those little fish are big fighters than can ...

Strange things are often caught in Florida’s lakes, but even state biologists were fascinated when they found a bass that looked like it was made of gold. Largemouth bass usually come in shades of ...

How much is too much of a good thing? In the case of yellow bass, we might find out. Yellow bass (Morone mississippiensis) are a relatively new arrival in Fairmont’s chain of lakes. It is thought they ...

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THREE RIVERS AREA — When a friend of mine recently hooked his first yellow bass, he was in for a surprise. The hook set provoked extraordinary resistance. Line zizzed off his ultralight reel. His rod ...

There was the unmistakable "tunk" on the end of the rod. A hook set, and then the fight was on. Chickamauga Lake is seething with yellow bass right now. We probably caught 80 yesterday, maybe a ...

The calendar announced spring's official arrival a few days earlier, but it seemed the news hadn't hacked its way through the jungle-like tangle of forest and brush and vines bracketing the isolated ...

Wisconsin angler Vairin Meesouk was casting from shore on Madison’s Lake Mendota the morning of April 22 when he hooked a heavy panfish. Soon he had a good-size striped fish on the bank. “He’d already ...

CLEAR LAKE — Yellow bass are continuing their rampage at Clear Lake. Angler success is on the rise. Although listed among the lake’s most plentiful fish species, yellow bass have remained widely ...

Above the whir of electric knives, the fellow across the fish cleaning station at McIntosh Woods State Park near Clear Lake, Iowa, asked where we were from. “Mankato, Minnesota,” Brian Fowler, my ...

Arden Katz has fished the Chain O’Lakes since the 1960s. “In the last 10 years, I would catch one or two yellow bass,’’ he said. “Now, yellow bass, I can’t keep them off. They taste good, but I don’t ...

A rare metallic gold bass caught in Florida’s Lake Tarpon has a condition known as xanthism, state marine biologists say. FWC photo Strange things are often caught in Florida’s lakes, but even state ...