Largemouth Bass & Lakes

If you follow the blog, you would have noticed that I did a post on why smallmouth bass prefer rivers. You're guessing it right. This is why largemouth bass prefer lakes and ponds as habitat. 

According to Bass Habitat, largemouth bass prefer deeper waters during the day 8-15ft and tend to prefer shallow waters in the evenings and mornings at 1-5ft.

Largemouth bass prefer temperatures over 60 degrees. Unlike small mouths who can tolerate cooler waters. Lakes typically offer a lot of cover for the largemouth which they thrive having. Lakes can provide lily pads, down trees, and other vegetation. A big difference is that a small mouth requires current to survive where as a largemouth, just prefers it. Smallmouth bass can be found in lakes, but the largemouth bass typically out breeds them. 

This is why you can see a distinction between the habitat of the two, however this is some over lap in certain areas.