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July 16, 2025

Artificial habitat added to a Texas impoundment helped provide cover and an abundant bluegill forage for the bass, and growth rates went up.

Study shows how much artificial habitat improves bass growth rates

October 7, 2019 Hal Schramm

A study was conducted on a 110-acre private impoundment in east Texas, managed for trophy bass, to offer insight into rejuvenating an aging impoundment. […]

Ability to detect sounds provides bass real-time directional information about their environment that is little affected by water clarity or water movement.

Bass hearing

September 9, 2019 Hal Schramm

Sound detection is an effective sense for bass detecting their environment. Here’s how they hear, what they hear, what they don’t hear — and why it matters. […]

Largemouth bass like this 10.35-pound lunker are rare, even in healthy, fast-growing populations managed for trophy bass.

Getting a handle on trophy bass

August 13, 2019 Hal Schramm

For many bass anglers, size matters, and several states have implemented management efforts to enhance trophy bass opportunities. […]

Take care of your summer bass

July 11, 2019 Hal Schramm

Here are some guidelines for keeping bass held in livewells alive and some results from a recent MSU study that addresses the survival of bass. […]

The study of fish movement

June 12, 2019 Hal Schramm

The ability to assess the environmental history of a fish is a tool that can provide important information used to better manage fisheries. […]

Christopher Anderson . . . An Escambia River alligator gar. The broad, blunt, and relatively short snout distinguishes alligator gar from other gar species. (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission)

Study alligator gar habitat use, movement

May 15, 2019 Hal Schramm

Alligator gar are long-lived, primitive fish that grow to sizes exceeding 7 feet and 200 pounds. Spawning occurs in May and June in Mississippi waters. […]

Every slab crappie was small once. Effects of environmental conditions on growth and survival of young fish determines future fishing.

Effects of turbidity on young crappie

April 12, 2019 Hal Schramm

Understanding the effects of environmental conditions on young crappie is especially important because abundance of crappie year-classes varies widely over time. […]

These nice bass were released alive, but even low mortality that occurs for released fish may be making bass harder to catch.

What is fisheries induced evolution?

March 25, 2019 Hal Schramm

That fishing may be changing populations has long been known in commercial fisheries, but recent research suggests that recreational fishing can also change populations. […]

The author gets together with a group of anglers every spring on Michigan’s Lake St. Clair. Everyone travels at least 600 miles for the event. Although they can’t claim ancestral fishing rights, this annual trip has great value to their small tribe.

The value of fish and fisheries

February 5, 2019 Hal Schramm

It is a good time to think a little deeper than just about fish biology or catching them. […]

Schools of jumping silver carp are common on the Mississippi River. Silver carp are abundant in Kentucky Lake and have moved upstream into Pickwick Lake and down the Tenn-Tom Waterway to Bay Springs Lake.

Silver carp update

January 22, 2019 Hal Schramm

Asian carp have been expanding their territory throughout the Mississippi River and connected waters for several decades.
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Bass are visual predators. Fishing shallow is usually the best approach in muddy water, but bass located in deep, muddy water can still be caught.

Turbidity and bass feeding

December 19, 2018 Hal Schramm

Catching bass when the water turns muddy can be challenging. Here’s how to up your odds of catching fish. […]

This largemouth bass, and 19 more like it, was caught on a 1/4-ounce, green pumpkin finesse jig with a small trailer after other baits, including a similar-sized, black/blue jig, failed to generate bites.

The search image

November 7, 2018 Hal Schramm

Catching your target fish is easy some days, hard or even seemingly impossible other days. […]