Welcome surprise while fishing for crappie and gills

[shipahoy41]

Keepit100outdoors....

8.5.15 fishing for panfish in Presque Isle Bay behind the convention center (Lake Erie, Erie, PA) i was using strictly night crawlers as bait.
i only got to fish for about 2 hours before the bugs started to get thick but i was able to catch 1 10" yellow perch, 1 slab blue gill, 1 baby rock bass
and this guy... whom now resides in my freezer!

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Love catching white bass because there good eating and easy to clean and since i never catch them in big groups its always a surprise!

Live Bait!!!

TIGHT LINES

KeepIt100 !!!

Welcome from Alabama. I love fishing for White Bass too and did it often when I lived in Akron, Ohio. If you ever get a chance, go to Sandusky Ohio when the White Bass is on or the power plant on Lake Erie.. Go Fish Ohio usually lets people know when the time is. Take three or four coolers with you and a ton of minnows or chartreuse jigs. You will fill your cooler / freezer / belly and your wallet if you sell a few.

[RiverSlabber]

We used to use inline spinners and troll for them. Once you found a feeding school just keep trolling back and forth, or cast at them. It sure was fun when the bite was on.

[crappiepappa]

How do you prepare and cook your White Bass? I have never had one that I would describe as "good eating." Maybe I'm doing it wrong...

Skin and gut the fish while preheating oven to 375. Season fish and lay on a piece of water soaked cedar plank. Cook 4 minutes on both sides or until flaky. Remove from oven, toss fish in trash and eat the board

[Redge]

Skin and gut the fish while preheating oven to 375. Season fish and lay on a piece of water soaked cedar plank. Cook 4 minutes on both sides or until flaky. Remove from oven, toss fish in trash and eat the board

That's our exact recipe Pappa !!

[glasseyes]

They are a lot like our White Perch. With them I have found if you only keep the meat that is above the lateral line it is much sweeter.

This , leave's you with something that looks like a big fish stick. I've filleted mine for years like this.

[CrappiePappy]

Man, ya'll lost me, we must not have them down here.

Tony, they're not indigenous to your area. They're native to the Ms River, Ohio River, and Missou River basins .... but have been "introduced" to waters throughout the midwest and southeast US & even some lakes in the western US.

This map shows where (& when) they were introduced to waterways in your area :

Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (the red dots show the waterways where they were introduced ... and you can run the year counter back/forth to see what year they were stocked into those waters)

... cp

[wicklundrh]

They come in to the Detroit river and Maumee river in the spring shortly after the Walleye. Took my daughter one year and caught 400 of them in a couple of hours. She actually got bored and asked to relocate so we could catch walleye.

I've tried them several different ways and just could never acquire a taste for them. They were just too soft for my liking.