Thread: white bass galore

JL72
Your right on the Yellow Bass. Up here on Black Lake you can catch a ton of them. Put a good jig behind a poper and catch them two at a time. We call them bar fish. The White Bass has a 50 fish limit except on TB which has a 25 limit. Yellow Bass has no limit. You can catch a ton of White Bass on Sabine River above TB when they spawn in the spring.

If you want to see the difference in yellow,white, hybrid bass the Texas Wildlife folks have some good information. It pays to know the difference.:D
TPWD: White & Striped Bass Identification Guide

White bass are also found in the Atch. basin.We've caught them good in Henderson.It's a blast when they're schooling,they will smash a chrome/blue rattle trap.:D

Johnny, you're right. I knew there were two of them and I wasn't sure which they were catching. Here they are called striped bass but are probably yellow bass.
"gene"

I remember my grandson catching either couple of white bass or a hybrid at Stephenville in the carwash canal not far from the launch. He had one in the boat before I could get my bait in the water. Caught on a shiner, of course. All I remember is it did not taste as good as a largemouth bass.....now I know why....

That is a good link "sportcity"......thanks....I will put it in my favorites...

Bruce

White bass are commonly called Bar Fish around here and people are divided on if they like them to eat or not. I've mixed bar fish/white bass fillets in with Crappie and had people taste them side by side and you couldn't taste the difference. HOWEVER!!!! When a White bass gets bigger they have a reddish colored line running through the middle of the fillet. That reddish line tastes really fishy if you leave it there and fry it up. It is the main reason people have a bad experience eating that type of fish and develop a hate for them.

All we do is fillet the fish like normal and then cut out that bloodline and you get like 2 skinny fillets instead of one. On the younger fish the line hasn't developed yet so theres nothing to worry about. The meat is white and flaky and very good to eat if you do this.

I have caught them all sizes on larto and in the saline bayous from small to 2.5 lbs.

Now hybrids we call stripers and they are basically a hybrid bass that can get up to like 25 pounds. They stocked them in Cane river and some other places. Don't get them confused with the natural Stripers as there are 2 different kinds. There are Stripers and then there are hybrid stripers.

"The Hybrid striper is a cross between a white bass and a striped bass. Of the three the hybrid grows the quickest."

Hybrid Striper Fishing - Stripers 247.com - hybrid stripers, Stripers, hybrid striped bass fishing