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You have your white bass, your striped bass, and your white bass/striper hybrids. White bass, or sandies as they’re called here, are fresh water fish. Stripers are salt water species that adapt well to fresh (they swim up stream in fresh water to spawn) water and have been stocked in way way too many places. Out east, stripers are called rockfish and they get big. The state record striper in Arkansas right now is 64 pounds. they eat their weight i baitfish every day. Imagine the impact on a reservoir’s native species. Hybrids were developedstrictly as a sport fish. They get big too.
All are fun to catch and fish for. Us Okies all grew up fishing the ‘sandy run’ around Easter. As for table fare, that’s a matter of opinion. They’re too fishy for my taste. Sandbass are pretty good if you get them in the oil while they’re almost still flopping. I’ve never found a way to keep or cook hybrids and stripers that suits me.
I have a delicate palette. Or is it pallete?
BKB
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