black bass

[ bas ]

/ bæs /

any freshwater American game fish of the genus Micropterus.

Compare largemouth bass, smallmouth bass.

Origin of black bass

First recorded in 1805–15

Accordingly I cut a ditch from the pond to the lake, with suitable screens, and stocked it with black-bass of both species.

Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others |James Alexander Henshall
I was once one of a party of black-bass fishers on a lake in Wisconsin.

Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others |James Alexander Henshall
It does not follow, however, that black-bass should be introduced in trout waters; far from it.

Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others |James Alexander Henshall
Bartram described bobbing as practised in Florida, for black-bass, nearly a century and a half ago.

Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others |James Alexander Henshall

With the small hooks of grayling flies, it is not wise for the angler to attempt to "strike," as in trout or black-bass fishing.

Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others |James Alexander Henshall

black bass

/ (bæs) /

any of several predatory North American percoid freshwater game fishes of the genus Micropterus : family Centrarchidae (sunfishes, etc)