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White bass

The white bass or sand bass (Morone chrysops) is a freshwater

Freshwater

Freshwater is a word that refers to bodies of water such as ponds, lakes, rivers and streams containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids....
fish of the temperate bass family Moronidae

Moronidae

Moronidae, also known as the "temperate basses", is a family of perciform fish consisting of 6 freshwater and marine species. Similar to Acropomatidae, Moronidae fish are most commonly found near the coastal regions of eastern North America and Europe....
. It is the state fish of Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....
. White Bass are unrelated to the black basses, which are members of the sunfish

Centrarchidae

The sunfishes are a family of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Perciformes. The type genus is Centrarchus . The family's 27 species includes many fishes familiar to North Americans, including the rock bass, largemouth bass, bluegill, and crappies....
family.

White bass are found in lakes and some large rivers throughout the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The species is somewhat similar in appearance to the white perch

White perch

The white perch, Morone americana, is not a true Percidae but is, rather, a fish of the temperate bass family Moronidae, notable as a food and game fish in eastern North America....
, though larger. Its back is dark, with white sides and belly, and with narrow darkish stripes running lengthwise on the sides.

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The white bass or sand bass (Morone chrysops) is a freshwater

Freshwater

Moronidae

Oklahoma

Centrarchidae

United States

White perch

Inch

An inch is the name of a Units of measurement of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units....
es in length, and usually weighs from 1 to 4 pound

Pound (mass)

The pound or pound-mass is a Units of measurement of massused in the Imperial unit, United States customary units and other systems of measurement....
s, though larger ones are sometimes taken. The world record is . 13 ounces and was taken in Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....
. Conventional panfish

Panfish

A Panfish, also spelled pan-fish or pan fish, is an edible game fish that usually doesn't outgrow the size of a frying pan. The term is also commonly used by anglers to refer to any small catch that will fit in a pan, but is large enough to be legal....
tackle

Fishing tackle

Fishing tackle, also called fishing gear, is a general term that refers to the equipment used by fishermen while fishing.Almost any equipment or gear used for fishing can be called fishing tackle....
or fly fishing

Fly fishing

Fly fishing is a distinct and ancient angling method, most renowned as a method for catching trout and salmon, but employed today for a wide variety of species including Esox, bass , panfish, and carp, as well as ocean species, such as Red drum, Common snook, tarpon, bonefish and striped bass....
tackle is used in angling

Angling

Angling is a method of fishing by means of an "angle" .The hook is usually attached by a fishing line to a fishing rod. A Float such as a Float is sometimes used....
the white bass. The fish tend to move in school

Swarm

The term swarm is applied to fish, insects, birds and microorganisms, such as bacteria, and describes a behavior of an aggregation of animals of similar size and body orientation, generally cruising in the same direction....
s and prefer to swim in clear water. A closely related fish, though much less common, is the Yellow bass

Yellow bass

Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the longest river in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico....
. Some anglers enjoy eating fresh white bass, others avoid it, as it can tend on occasion to have oily flesh.

Diet

White bass are carnivores. They eat insect larvae, crustaceans, and other fish. They are visual feeders. When not frightened, they will bite readily at live bait

Bait (luring substance)

Bait is any substance used to attract prey, e.g. in a mousetrap....
such as worm

Earthworm

Earthworm is the common name for the largest members of Oligochaeta in the phylum Annelida. The earthworm is the most known worm in America, and other countries....
s and minnow

Minnow

Minnow may refer to:...
s.

Size

Most fish are between one and three pounds, but some weigh as much as six pounds.

Habitat

White bass are native to the rivers that flow to the Mississippi. They have been widely introduced into rivers that flow in to the Atlantic Ocean, such as the Catawba and Yadkin rivers. White bass often travel in schools, chasing baitfish in the open waters of lakes and large rivers. As a result, they are rarely associated with cover. They also inhabit ponds, reservoirs, streams and rivers with deep pools.

Spawning

White bass have a strong homing tendency. They are known to find their home spawning ground even if it's moved to a different part of the same lake. They like to spawn

Spawn (biology)

Spawning is the production or depositing of large quantities of egg s in water. The process is done by marine animals such as amphibians and fish....
in moving water in a tributary

Tributary

A tributary is a stream or river which flows into a Mainstem river. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea. Tributaries and the mainstem river serve to drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater by leading the water out into an ocean or some other large body of water....
stream, but they will spawn in windswept lake shores. They spawn during daylight. Females release 242,000 to 933,000 eggs which stick to the surface of objects. The parents move to deeper water and do not care for the young fish. The young fish live in shallow water for a while until they move to deeper water. They can also spawn with yellow bass

Yellow bass

The yellow bass or barfish, Morone mississippiensis, is a freshwater fish native to the south and midwestern United States. Though sometimes confused with white bass or striped bass, it is distinguished by its yellow belly and the broken pattern in its lowermost stripes....
to create the yellow bass hybrid. Spawning occurs in the late spring, when the fish often congregate in large numbers below dams and other obstructions such as riffles to spawn. White bass are active feeders during the spawn and can be caught in great numbers at this time.