Florida’s mystery bass rumble may be sound of frisky fish mating

A black drum fish. Photograph: Robert S. Michelson/Tom Stack & Assoc./Alamy

A strange noise that for years has been bothering residents of Florida could actually be the sound of fish mating – loudly.

Residents of a neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, have been frustrated by a mysterious bass sound in their surroundings, the Washington Post reported.