Striped Bass, White Bass, and Hybrids

    Striped bass, also called stripers, are
    silver with 7 or 8 dark horizontal stripes
    that are not broken.  Their body is
    longer than white bass and they have 2
    patches of teeth on the tongue.  White
    bass are also silver, but they have
    horizontal black stripes that are
    unbroken above the lateral line.  The
    lines below the lateral line are barely
    visible and irregular.  The horizontal
    stripes on a white bass usually stop just
    short of the tail.  The hybrids, a
    combination of the striped bass and
    white bass, have silvery sides with
    broken horizontal stripes that are
    unbroken above and below the lateral
    line.


Stripers and white bass are very similar.  They both migrate up rivers
and streams in the spring.  They thrive in large bodies of water,
especially reservoirs.  They primarily feed in schools in open water.  
Fishermen will often see schools of bait fish surfacing in open water.  
Stripers and white bass will target these large schools of bait fish and
scare them to the top where feeding is fast and furious.  

Striped bass are the largest with many fish being caught over 30
pounds.  White bass in the 1 to 2 pound range are good-sized fish with
few fish
exceeding 3 pounds.  Hybrids are bigger than white bass, but smaller
than stripers.  Hybrids in the 10 to 15 pound range are not uncommon,
but fish in the 5 to 10 pound range are considered quality-sized fish.

Striped bass are located mostly on the east coast and in the south.  
White bass are found in the south, midwest and throughout some of the
plains states.  
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