Large Mouth Bass

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to move past sixty degrees fahrenheit. The spring spawning urge in a bass is set off by both water temperature and photoperiod. Photoperiod is the proportion of the day in which the bass are exposed to sunlight. As the day light hours grow longer through the spring and early summer, so does the photoperiod. This process affects the temperature of different bodies of water in different ways. Small shallow ponds heat up much earlier in the year. As a result the bass will begin to spawn much earlier than the bass in large lakes. They will also finish earlier. The spawning of bass usually vary from two to four months. The male is the first to move into the spawning grounds, making the relocation well before the water temperatures has reached the spawning levels. The male bass will work on the nest, then the female will join the male later. When water temperature rises to within the spawning range, the female lays his eggs over the nest, with the male spreading his fertile milt ...

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brood for several more days, until they begin to leave on theri own. At this point the male begins to gradually lose his protective instinct and return to his predator ways. The last few around may become his first meal. During there first few years, the little bass tend to stay together. They live in a school to protect themselves from predators. They do this until they get bigger and can live on there own.
While there is some care giving when the young are in egg form, there is no care soliciting. As soon as the eggs are hatched and are a couple of days old, the young are out on there own. There is no help from the parents. Everything is instinctive to them. So there is no ...

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