White Bass Tip Videos

  • Making Your Own Feathered Trebles

    Feathered trebles add flash to any bait that uses treble hooks, here's how to make your own at home.

  • Bobby's Perfect Frog

    Snag Proof has developed a frog for fishing open water. This frog is weedless and sink proof the only place you are going to see that frog disappear is down the throat of a trophy fish!

  • Live Target Frogs

    Dave Mercer stops by the WFN booth at ICAST 2010 for a snack - I mean to talk about the winner of the Best Soft Plastic Lure, the Live Target Frog (Hollow-body). Mercer offers tips on how to rig up this frog and when to fish it.

  • Vicious Fluorocarbon Elite

    John Crews sings the praises of this new fluorocarbon line at ICAST 2010. Crews says the line is so clear that after he spooled his spinning reel he could still see the base of the spool! And at $20 for 200 yards it is a great price.

  • Preventing Line Twists

    JP answers a new anglers questions about swivels. The main purpose for swivels is to prevent line twists and JP offers tips on picking the best type for your style of fishing.

  • Love Your Lake: Saylorville Lake

    Located 11 miles upstream of Des Moines, Iowa, is Saylorville Lake, a reservoir built on the Des Monies River in 1958. Being a northern lake, anglers will enjoy fishing for bluegill, catfish, crappie, largemouth bass, striped bass, white bass and even some northern pike.

  • Fish Facts: Hybrid Striped Bass

    Did you know that one of the differences between white bass and hybrid striped bass is a row of teeth? Which fish has the extra row of teeth and what other differences separate these two fish? Iowa DNR Biologist Ben Dodd explains.

  • Love Your Lake: Horsetooth Reservoir

    Located in the foothills west of Fort Collins, Colorado, at an elevation over 5,400 feet, is the six and a half mile long, 1900 acre, Horsetooth Reservoir which offers quality fishing for walleye, smallmouth bass, and trout. There are also a few white bas

  • Tru-Tungsten Mad Maxx Frog and American Rodsmiths Team Series

    Marty Stone talks about the unique concepts on the Tru-Tungsten Mad Maxx Frog and the innovations on the American Rodsmiths Team Series fishing rods.

Fresh Water

White Bass Species Identification

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White Bass

Other Names

Silver bass, sand bass, sandy, barfish.

Appearance

The white bass can be identified by the distinctive arched back just behind its head. It also has only one tongue patch. They have the dark, usually unbroken lines on each side. White in color along the sides and belly, with a darker back.

Maximum Size

Up to six pounds (2.7 kg).

Geographic Range

Prominent in Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri River systems and surrounding regions. Range from southern Canada to northern Mexico.

Habitat

These fish usually travel in large schools. Adults prefer open water over sandy shoals during the day and shallows at night.

Food

Shad, minnows, crustaceans, and insects.

Spawning

White bass are very prolific. One female can produce up to one million eggs. Reproductive activities are triggered by water temperatures of 50 to 55 degree F (10-12.8°C). Spawning is at random over weeds, debris and rocks. When tributary streams are available, this species prefers upstream migration for spawning. No parental care is provided to eggs or young.

Information courtesy of Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.

White Bass Tips

Fly Fishing for Beginners

By LOY MILAM              My first introduction to fly fishing (if you could truly characterize it as “fly fishing”) was in the late 1950s growing up in my hometown of Lubbock, Texas. By chance I stumbled upon an interesting package at the local Army Surplus store which read on the package “Survival Kit.” It

Spring Prep Guide

Preparing for spring is certainly an endeavor in patience and persistence.  There are so many things to remember in the late winter and early spring preparation it is hard to say where to start.  I usually begin with trying to whittle down all the tackle I bought last summer and fall down to a manageable level.  I used to carry 4 hard sided plastic tackle boxed and two soft sided

Pre Fishing Make Ready

My motor and most items are ready to go as I stated in an earlier blog I do this in the late fall so I do not have to now. Now there are a few things that happen so I am updating my graphs putting a larger one up at the bow (hard getting old) and adding a Lowrance HDS with side finder at the console This article came at the right time as I am going to go fishing for two weeks straight at 3

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