Stripe or white bass are hot below the nick 1/6/2008

[Guest]

I have fished below the nick for the last 2 days and the stripe are really biting now. People are really catching them off the bank and out of boats close to the boat ramp below the dam. If you want a lot of action, you had better get down there. If you don't have a boat there is no excuse of not going fishing, I know all of your kids will love it. If you don't like to eat them someone right next to you does.

 

[inthebox30lbs]

How do those white bass taste in this cold water? I have tried to acquire a taste for spots but it has not worked out so good. Just curious, nice job on those sauger.
Scott

 

[bassnbug]

thanks for the post, i will try to get down there around wed.

 

[Nickajack Angler]

My son Louie presses me all the time to clean fish so we can eat them... I always want to release... More so because I have to cook, clean and everything. Which is fine, but usually if I've been fishing since 6am, I don't want to be disposing of oil at 9pm. That being said, when he caught some of these white bass, I told him we'd keep anything over 3lb. He immediately caught about 5 that size or right at it. Most we have caught in the last month are small, but a lot are larger than the crappies and taste great. Everyone enjoyed them here. Though, it's not walleye/sauger...

 

[Guest]

inthebox30lbs - 1/6/2008 9:07 PM

How do those white bass taste in this cold water? I have tried to acquire a taste for spots but it has not worked out so good. Just curious, nice job on those sauger.
Scott

Scott if you don't like the spots you most likely won't like the whites. Matter of fact you most likely won't like hardly any fish. Spots are about as good as they come. JMHO

 

[EricM]

Thanks Doc1! We appreciate you sharing the info!emoThumbsup

 

[rsimms]

White bass are great... the trick is to trim away all the red meat from the filets. FYI, white muscle is used for short, fast bursts of energy. Red muscle is for long, sustained movement over a period of time... stripe and white bass "migrate" in open water regularly. That's why they have more of that red meat compared to bluegill, bass, crappie, etc. But I'm off the subject... bottomline, trim away all the red meat you can and white bass are very good. Just remember... if it ain't fried, it ain't fish! emoBigsmile

 

[BigFishGuide]

Stipe are heavy at Widows Creek as Well if you don't mind the travel. I anchored against the Sails and caught them solid for 3 or 4 hours with very few cast resulting in nothing.

 

[Nickajack Angler]

They've been hot down there since before this thread was started. But today, there were much larger whitebass hitting today. We only caught a few small ones, but many today were over two lbs. Much to Louie's delight. And I don't care who you are, when you are throwing traps, and catch some whitebass with some size to them, they put a dang good fight. Caught them pretty much all over from the dam to south of burns island.

 

[polo-dog]

Wow, that sounds like tons of fun. 2lb whites are great fighters. I have eaten whites and just like the majority of the fish that I catch in the TN river it depends what you put on the fish that you taste. The meat it's self doesn't really have that much flavor to it. "Doctor" the fish up a bit and it all tastes good.