White Bass control needed

[olfishead]

My wife and I caught 15 nice (12-17 inch)white bass in an hour before the storm hit Thursday evening. They weren't as concentrated as before, more scattered smaller groups, so it took some limited "chasing" to stay within casting distance. Still a lot of fun!  Fed the last batch to the folks at work, they loved them. I always like to cook my fish (any species) in peanut oil to give extra flavor. And, the peanut oil seems to capture the odor so it doesn't smell up the house as much.

 

[smiling mallard]

Never found any consistent surfacing but did catch fish in RA cove, NE of the island at Masters & best on the long flat point West of the island.  School of smallies moved in at dark & we all 3 caught one simultaneously. 

[CoolHandFluke]

Daughter and I got into them a couple of weeks ago. I could not believe how many there were! She had a blast. Bet we caught 40-50 in about 2hrs. Took some home to clean. If you want to get a kid hooked on fishing White bass is the way to do it!

[olfishead]

The first step in making white bass delicious is to sharpen your fillet knife so that you can cut the lateral line out completely and then "slice" off the remaining dark meat. Throw away those electric fillet knives and fillet fish like a man!  By the way my bird dog loves the dark meat!

 

 

 

[fishinwrench]

2 hours ago, olfishead said:

 By the way my bird dog loves the dark meat!

Mine does too.  I have to limit his intake though because he once got over 30 chunks of it and his farts were toxic for days.  

[dan hufferd]

On 9/3/2018 at 3:51 PM, CoolHandFluke said:

Daughter and I got into them a couple of weeks ago. I could not believe how many there were! She had a blast. Bet we caught 40-50 in about 2hrs. Took some home to clean. If you want to get a kid hooked on fishing White bass is the way to do it!

Trolling cranks ? I am thinking of taking my grandson, thanks.