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Lots of fun and some good eating here.



A few were caught on a Kast Master slab, some on a Little Geroge, but the chrome and black Rattle Trap was the killer lure. I caught a fish on every cast with it. I don't know how many we released, we kept a two man limit of 50.

Nothing like it when they are on the feed.

Used to look for them below the dam at Texoma. Would you believe when they got a good population in Pickerel Lake in NE South Dakota people wouldn't eat them and wished they'd go away?? Big ones too. Had to educate my buddies. They're a blast when they push minnows against the shore, feeding frenzy and will hit anything.

We always went with anything silver or white that would run at the right depth.

They will hit anything shinny and that alone makes it fun to catch em'.

Best time I ever had on sand bass, I found them busting the surface. My partner and I caught 62 in 30 minutes on a torpedo and a skip-jack. We caught a fish on every cast until we quit.

They look a lot like white bass. miles

They is, we call em' sand bass around here.

They hit the lure with authority! I used to catch them in Lake Ontario in the 70s. We Used to fish the warm water outlet of the Oswego power trying to be the first guy to catch 100. I also fished Russell Station and Ganet power plant outlets in Rochester. They were even more fun to fight in the current. I hear they have disappeared from the American side of Lake Ontario.

Elephant Butte in New Mexico has a good population as does Lake Pleasant in Phoenix. If you can catch them busting shad they will hit just about anything.

One of my favorite fish to catch.

Sand bass or sandies=white bass. Fun to catch when their feeding. Not one of my favorites to eat.

Cut the red strip out in the center, and they eat like any other, save Crappie

Nothing is like Crappie.

We catch a mix of white bass, whippers/hybrids, and strippers on my home lake. Friday on my way home it was about to storm and it was lightning a little and very windy. I looked off the bridge and there were 2 places about 75 yards wide that had probably 150 commorants sitting and probably that many sea gulls circling above them. The water was churning and splashing like sharks feeding! I wanted to go hook to the boat and fish them suckers but it was so windy and I didn't want to be struck by lightning with a graphite rod sticking strait up. Was tempting though. Sandbass as you guys call them are very fun and sporty fish and good eating too if you get all that red meat off the fillets. Looks like you had a blast!