1.   After several lost baits, a small bass hit the shiner.

2.   Holland said he caught a few small bass, then decided to move closer to the warm-water outlet of the power plant.

3.   If there were small bass, there would be big ones.

4.   My father was using a diving orange-and-black bumblebee on a spinning rod and he pulled in a small bass and several crappie.

5.   There also are small bass to put up with and a lot of misses.

6.   Using a light rod and a conventional reel and various bucktail jigs, he caught and released more than a dozen small bass in an hour.