Do adult largemouth bother with leeches, worms, freshwater shrimp or fish eggs?
Barely — and the order matters. Leeches and worms are real but trivial food: a largemouth that finds one eats it, which is why a nightcrawler or a live leech under a float still catches bass, but nobody has ever found a lake where bass were "on the leech bite." Scuds and grass shrimp are nursery food — young bass pick them out of the weeds in their first year or two, then outgrow them the same way they outgrow plankton. Fish eggs are not on the menu at all; around a nest the largemouth is the victim, guarding against bluegill that raid it. For an adult, the meal has to be worth opening that mouth for: fish, crayfish, frogs.
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