Black bass fishing in the U.S.: addendum to the 1996 national survey of fishing, hunting and wildlife-related recreation

This is a report intended to complement the National and State reports from the 1996 National survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. It focuses on black bass anglers. The report has five sections. The first section shows the extent of participation in bass fishing. It presents the numbers of bass anglers and fishing days for the nation and state-by-state. The second section discusses the demographic characteristics of bass anglers and compares them to other freshwater anglers and the overall U. S. population. The third section considers changes in bass fishing participation through time by comparing results from the 1991 and 1996 surveys. The fourth section develops a statistical model of bass fishing participation which predicts whether a freshwater angler will fish for bass or not, based on the person’s demographic characteristics and residency. The final section summarizes the report.