White Bass Details

White Bass Source: Raver, Duane. http://images.fws.gov. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
  • Water Type: freshwater
  • Latin Name: Morone chrysops
  • Common Names: silver bass, striped bass, white lightining
  • Water Temp: below 70*
  • World Record: 9lbs 7oz 26.25"
  • Last Modified By: timmeh on 09/12/11 12:11 PM
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Baits and Tackle for White Bass

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

  • homemade flat casting spoon
  • drifting jig and worm past the fish feeder about 100 yards away.
  • crankbaits also
  • casting silver spoons

Other Check Prices

  • Chicken liver baits - home made

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Rapala XR10 X-Rap Extreme -Silver
  • Rapala XR10 X-Rap Extreme - Hot Steel
  • shallow running
  • trolling a shad colored rapala

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Crawdad Color 1/4oz Spinnerbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/6oz Chartuese Rooster Tail

Worm Check Prices

  • fishing with a walleye rig baited with a worm  and also minnows

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • slow rollin thru ledges and brush and edges

Panfish Jig Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • live bait rigs, baited with nightcrawlers being drifted about 30-40 feet down.

White Bass Description

The white bass looks quite a bit like a shortened version of its larger relative, the striped bass (Morone saxatilis). It has the same silvery white sides and black stripes. It differs most noticeably in being shorter and stockier with a smaller head, and the dorsal fins are set closer together. They can be distinguished from the yellow bass (M. mississippiensis), by its more silvery color and regular, unbroken stripes as well as by its protruding, pugnacious looking, basslike lower jaw (in the yellow bass the jaws are about equal). It can be distinguished from the white perch by the latters lack of prominent stripes on the sides (though stripes may be present in very small juveniles).

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