Among bass, easiest to catch are best dads

Recreational fishing may be inadvertent evolutionary force

The same qualities that make a largemouth bass an easy mark for anglers make him a successful dad. So recreational fishers, a new study suggests, may be accidental forces of evolution, selecting against the best in male fish parenting.

GOTCHA Fishing may unintentionally pressure largemouth bass to evolve into harder-to-catch fish that don’t provide very diligent parenting to their young.