keninaz Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 Striped Bass are Bass and what I grew up fishing for north of SF on salt water. I also fished for Sturgeon. Now we have Stripers as fresh water fish in many lakes today and quite a few here in AZ But they are not part of the personal best for weight and favorite bass. My PB is just under 30# and I like fishing for Stripers. This forum doesn't recognize Stripers as a bass? Quote
Super User Jar11591 Posted March 5, 2014 Super User Posted March 5, 2014 Stripers are a "temperate" bass, LM and SM are in the sunfish family and are considered "true" bass. Quote
keninaz Posted March 5, 2014 Author Posted March 5, 2014 Really? I have caught them in warm and very cold waters. They adapt quite well and will eat anything smaller than them. Quote
camovan Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 Because there are a plenty of other striper forums already? Quote
keninaz Posted March 5, 2014 Author Posted March 5, 2014 I think you guys are just jealous. Oh well, such if life. Quote
Super User Jar11591 Posted March 5, 2014 Super User Posted March 5, 2014 Striped bass as well as white bass aren't actually bass even though they're called bass. They belong to the temperate bass family along with white perch. True bass are actually sunfish. No foolin! If you don't believe me look it up! Quote
livetofish28 Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 largemouth spotted and smallmouth bass are considered black bass in the sunfish family while stripers are in a completely different family anything about them can be posted in the other fish species forum i could see this getting locked lol tight lines Andrew Quote
camovan Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 True, I am jealous. Also of note, there is no Chilean Sea Bass sub-forum either even though they are called bass but not really bass like the striper. 1 Quote
SnazzySenko Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 What about a peacock bass section. I'd like that even though they are a member of the cichlid family. Quote
SnazzySenko Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 What about a bass guitar section? What about a dropping the bass section for dubstep? Lol 1 Quote
BassAssassin726 Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 I love the elitism in fishing. You don't fish for the same fish that I fish for so that somehow makes you a lesser fisherman and screw you. It's sad really. Quote
BassAssassin726 Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 What about a dropping the bass section for dubstep? Lol Most definitely! 1 Quote
plumworm Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 Bass or A$$, nobody rides for free. No rock bass? My favorite worm pecker. Good eagle food too. Quote
Wbeadlescomb Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 What about a dropping the bass section for dubstep? Lol Here comes the drop bum zizz wahh boom boom wuhh uhh Quote
keninaz Posted March 5, 2014 Author Posted March 5, 2014 I love the elitism in fishing. You don't fish for the same fish that I fish for so that somehow makes you a lesser fisherman and screw you. It's sad really. Yes but I can accept jealousy. Growing up fishing for Stripers, sturgeon and salmon all of my life I did not fish lake much until some 20 years ago. Stripers when I was a kid had to be 16 and then 18" just to keep them. Sturgeon had to be 40 and then 48 to keep them~~etc. When you grow up fishing for larger species you get spoiled catching the bigger fish. Fishing lakes I have gone to light tackle to get the same thrill as with catching the big ones. So I returned to stalking the hybrid stripers in the lakes here in AZ and elsewhere. Lake Powell here produced a 48# striper. And where I grew up 35-45# stripers were common when I was young. So what the hell does it matter what we fish for, we are all fishermen. Quote
Trailer Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 What about tree bass!? Who hasn't drug a limb off the bottom or hooked a stump? They are predominant in most waters and I'd like them to get the respect they deserve. Quote
Super User SirSnookalot Posted March 5, 2014 Super User Posted March 5, 2014 Stripers are a really nice fish to catch, much like the snook we have here in Florida. They average about the same size but stripers have the potential to get larger, caught my share stripers off Montauk on L.I. 2 Quote
keninaz Posted March 5, 2014 Author Posted March 5, 2014 I have fished for many species in my time both in the US and overseas while I was stationed in Germany. But if I were not landlocked in retirement here in AZ I would still be fishing salt water just for the size of the fish available. 1 Quote
Hyrule Bass Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 there may not be a striped bass section, or an option for favorite bass, but they certainly do get talked about and mentioned here. http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/118332-chesapeake-bay-striper/#entry1294221 2 Quote
keninaz Posted March 6, 2014 Author Posted March 6, 2014 Nice fish, I think that one is slightly bigger than the biggest I have ever caught. Mine was on a bug eye with a pork rind trailer with a hook just inside the entrance to the Golden Gate Bridge in SF. We use to drift fish there with lures and live anchovies depending on what they would take on the incoming tides. We have the striper hybrids in many lakes here in AZ. If you go here you will see that since they put them into the lake they have really grown. http://www.wayneswords.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=81&Itemid=92 I am not sure about right now but recently they had so many in the lake that they were allowing you to take as many home as you could catch trying to control the population. Yep, put a bigger species in the lake and they can take over if you are not careful. Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted March 8, 2014 Global Moderator Posted March 8, 2014 I've only ever striper fished once but really enjoyed it, but if I wanted to talk about stripers specifically, then I'd go to a striper fishing forum, of which there are many We went to Beaver Lake in Arkansas in search of catching our first stripers ever, which is a tall task with no experience with the fish or the lake. It took us about 30 minutes for Jon to catch the first one of the trip. Several more small ones the next couple days before I got my largest of the trip and the fish that is still my PB striper. All were caught casting A-rigs or Keitech swing impacts and all were released to give someone else the thrill they gave us. 2 Quote
Super User SirSnookalot Posted March 8, 2014 Super User Posted March 8, 2014 @ keninaz, you can't take the lack of interest in stripers or any other species too serious or personal, first and foremost this is a freshwater bass site. I do believe a good portion of the membership has had little or no exposure to some of the other species, they focus on the fish they have in their local waters, witch is mainly lmb and smb. Quote
Hyrule Bass Posted March 12, 2014 Posted March 12, 2014 bluebasser, those are some terrific lake stripers yall got there. my biggest striper out of a lake doesnt break 30 inches, i believe its 27.5 inches. that 42 incher i posted above was caught out of the chesapeake bay in salt water trolling big umbrella rigs... Quote
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