male or female

hello.can anyone tell me is there any way of telling a bass is male or female. i love eating bass but would have no bother putting back the girls to do their business.?thanks

Female bass tend to be larger and would have a soft belly when spawning keep an eye out for the soft belly around this time of year

sound.now its just the small matter of catching.ha

indeed, im also waiting to get one myself, but ive been trying to gleem as much info from this site and site members to increase chances.

Good luck!

http://genimpact.imr.no/__data/page/765 ... a_bass.pdf

everything you were afraid to ask, including why they want to use female sex hormones in treating captive male fish to increase production on farms... omg!

FWIW

Great link there Kieran, very interesting.