White Bass?

[moguy1973]

Are these normally white or silvery like in the picture. Cause I've seen a lot of pictures of the silvery ones, but every time I thought I caught a White Bass, it was just that, pretty white like the on in this pic down here. And the eyes didn't seem like on the ones on your guys.

That's a white bass too.

[Mitch f]

Here's some I caught while wading the Ouachita River last year

[Wayne SW/MO]

So are these fish here because of a spring spawning run or are they present year round?

The spawn is over, what there was of it. They will run in and out of streams, especialy cooler ones. In lakes you tend to see them in large schools feeding on shad in the mornings when the surface temps are lower. They genetically tend to be cool water fish, all that not as bad as their big brother the striper. They don't realate to cover as a rule as in the summer it's generally a case of crossing paths.

My advice would be if you catch one in the summer fish hard and quick because they will likely move.