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Name:	Buteye -	Reply
Subject:	White Bass Spawn
Date:	3/11/2012 10:48:41 PM (updated 3/11/2012 10:57:46 PM)

When White Bass(which I refer to as the small non-hybrid stripes) start to move into the sloughs to spawn, does this time frame only last for a day or two? This past Wednesday at about 5 o'clock I went out on my dock(which is almost at the end of my slough) just on a whim that I might see some action. Believe it or not I caught 14 stripes on 15 casts using a small white-tail red head jig(all in a 1 to 2 pound range). I tried the same technique at about the same time and only caught a couple of fish each day over the next three days. The fish were caught on a light crappie rod-reel combo and put up a good fight. The main reason I am trying to learn more about how long the spawn usually lasts is because I was at the lake at almost the exact same time last year and had almost the same identical results(caught 12 fish on about 14 casts). I would appreciate any information on whether this is usually a "one" day big catch or might I have had a couple more good days if I had arrived at the lake a couple of days earlier. I am now 71 years old and as a teenager in north Alabama I used to fish for stripes with my Dad on the shoals of some backwater creeks(those were the "good old days".

Name:	alahusker -	Reply
Subject:	White Bass Spawn
Date:	3/12/2012 7:21:27 PM

Actually Pal you were likely catching 'whites' which are cousins to Stripes, but not the same fish.. do a google search, check body conformation and lateral line paterns and you will see the difference.. very common mistake..

Name:	Aardvark -	Reply
Subject:	White Bass Spawn
Date:	3/12/2012 7:39:48 PM

White Bass will run up the bigger feeder creeks this time of year to spawn, so if you are near a good tributary, that is where they are going. Start heading upstream and you might catch up with them. If you can get to the back of the creek, you can find some great action when a good spawning run is on. The rest of the year, the schools will chase shad all over the lake, which is why they are there one day and gone the next.

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