Thread: You have heard this before "not crappie but ..."

The white perch photo remnds me of a shad--maybe it is just me.

Originally Posted by creekslick

From everything I have read the sand bass and the white bass are the same. Most folks call them white's except those in Texas and Oklahoma.

Lake Wright Patnam is full of them--You can see them after the shad in huge schools. Bass fisherman I guess love to catch them as sport. I love the sport of catching fish to eat, but I will release ones that I consider too small.
Many Texans that I have seen do not catch the sand bass to eat. I use to see them get up into the 4-5 lb. range, but we use to snag them at the spillway years ago in the 1960,s.

another easy way to tell white perch from white bass is white perch will nibble at a bait like a bluegill will. lil machine gun taps.. a white bass will try to rip the rod out of your hands

A yellow bass in Texas is call a "bar fish." Go figure. In SW ARK. a white bass is call a sand bass or sandy. A fish by another name is still a fish, catch um if you can.

We catch a White Bassin Nimrod from time to time. Sometimes in early spring you can catch several way up river.

Originally Posted by Backwater Man

See the yellow bass--those bold green lines on the fish remind me of a sand bass---I do not remember the lines on a white bass being so bold, plus they are a larger fish than the yellow bass.

Sand Bass just a local name for Yellow Bass

All,

White Perch are not native to Arkasnas. Actually the only place that I have heard of any of them is a couple of very small ones were found in a fish sample in Dardanelle. They were not sure where they came from. Here is a link to info on them from fishbase.org Morone americana, White perch : fisheries, gamefish, aquarium. They look very similar to white bass found here in Arkansas.

Originally Posted by IceManCometh

another easy way to tell white perch from white bass is white perch will nibble at a bait like a bluegill will. lil machine gun taps.. a white bass will try to rip the rod out of your hands

There you go, now that is why I White Bass fish. I throw crankbaits a lot and they will literally try to take the rod from you, fight all the way to the boat then dive and make that finale run when you get him to the boat. Wow, got me wanting to go again this afternoon.