Diet?
I have never found a salamander in the gut of any bass that I have kept.
Also, I have seen salamanders swimming unconcerned that large fish were inches from them.
In my part of the world I don't think that salamanders are a desireable food for the bass.
Ed
" Fishermen, hunters, wood choppers, and others,
spending their lives in the fields and woods,
in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,
are often in a more favorable mood for observing her,
in the intervals of their pursuits,
than philosophers or poets even,
who approach her with expectation."
Henry David Thoreau