be eatin white bass bro!!!!!!

i be eatin the white bass we begets while trollin' for eyes.
 
see now just typin that gets me droolin' an drippin' all over this keyboard dog.
 
try eatin' white bass
be better than yo lo perch.

by the way, a white bass tastes just like a hybrid striped bass and if you ever tried one of those than you know how good they are.

I was once told that those fish are actually referred to as white perch. I don't know if that was correct or not, but the person that told me that was working for the state of Ohio taking a survey about fish being caught.
 
Good to hear that they are actually tasty eating. I honestly never considered eating one before now.
 
I had eaten the white bass caught from Pymatuming while trolling for eyes there. I'm not sure they're exactly the same fish as the ones we catch at Erie. The ones from Pymatuming seem to be larger and whiter. The ones on Erie seem smaller and have a gold / bronze tint to them.
 
I didn't think the ones I caught at Pymatuming tasted nearly as good as Walleye. But that's just my opinion. Maybe I'll keep a few the next time I catch some and give them a try. Thanks for the tip.

Leroy, you would eat the****end of a sheephead baking on the beach......

I have a buddy that just moved back up here from Maryland.  He was always telling me about the perch fishing on the Chesapeake.  It wasn’t until he got up here and reeled in his first white perch of the year and I went to pitch it back that he flipped out.  Reason being…  “that would be a beauty of a perch on the Chesapeake”.  He keeps trying to talk me into keeping them, and one day I might, but for right now I can’t bring myself to contaminate my cooler.
 
BTW, White perch are actually an invasive species.  They swam up the St. Lawrence Seaway.
 

White bass seem to be more pelagic than the perch.  Perch are bottom dwellers and white bass always seem to be suspended.
 
They really feed in different layers of the water column, how could they take them over????

Might have to try a few. We caught some big white bass today perch fishing.

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White bass seem to be more pelagic than the perch.  Perch are bottom dwellers and white bass always seem to be suspended.

They really feed in different layers of the water column, how could they take them over????

after reading your posts from this year, I do realize your not the smartest guy, but really do you think fish live in seperate water columns? they are fish, they live wherever the food is.

Fillet,
 
Yes fish DO live where the food is. Different fish, utilize different food sources, and prefer different water temperatures. Thus different fish DO live in different water columns.

I catch white bass all the time perch fishing. they live in the same depths. yellow perch are just more inclined to stay on the bottom. white bass inhabit all depths, right on shore and all the way out to 80ft. i caught 20 white bass tonight fishing for perch right next to a head boat. on my way in i watched white bass eating minnows right of the surface 100yds in front of lampe. white bass are everywhere and are or will become the dominate species. in fact i just ate 2 whities for dinner.

Ever notice perchin' you sometimes can't get your bait to the bottom...
 
Because the white bass eat it before it can get to the bottom where the PERCH are!  White bass do sometimes inhabit the bottom, but primarily suspend.  I've seen it in huge southern reservoirs, I've seen it in Lake Erie, I've seen it at Shenango.  Watch your fish finder, there are usually schools of bait suspended that feed the suspended 'eyes, whities, sheephead, and steelies.  Bait can also be found at/near the bottom which feeds 'eyes, cats, burbot, perch, etc. 
 
 
 
 

what is the name of the "fisherie biologist?" i'm sure there are many people in the sportfishing/commercial fishing industry that would like info about this.