What is this fish?

[Fred Allen]

Im looking through my pictures from this past year and have noticed I caught a ton of this kind of fish. I cant figure out what kind of fish it is. I got ones very small and ones about this size which is around the biggest I seem to have got. 

 

 

[mrpao]

Thats a white perch.

They're pretty plentiful in most bodies of water.

[Russ E]

1 hour ago, mrpao said:

Thats a white perch.

They're pretty plentiful in most bodies of water.

^^^^this. Here in Kansas they are considered a nuisance fish. the state asks that we do not release them.

[Jig Man]

Looks like a white bass to me.

[soflabasser]

The fish you are holding in your hands is a white perch.

[bulldog1935]

20 hours ago, Jig Man said:

Looks like a white bass to me.

About as close as you can get - Same family - temperate basses, and a native to Atlantic drainages:  

worldwide, there are 6 species in the family of true basses

the slides are from a talk on white bass I gave a few times

the reason non-native temperate bass are considered a nuisance is because they can't be eradicated, and deplete the forage base for native species.  

Yet fisheries bureaucracies continue to pollute with them - our state only 8 years ago stocked white bass 100 mi and far uphill from their native range, and where they can get to one of the last two creeks holding an A-strain of our endemic spotted bass.  

[Jig Man]

So my guess was wrong.  I didn’t even know that there was such  a species as yellow bass.  Learn something new every day.

[scaleface]

2 hours ago, Jig Man said:

So my guess was wrong.  I didn’t even know that there was such  a species as yellow bass.  Learn something new every day.

Yellow bass I have caught one time . They look like a white bass with a yellow tint and the ones I caught were smaller . I found them in a shallow backwater area off the Mississippi river . 

[Russ E]

11 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Yellow bass I have caught one time . They look like a white bass with a yellow tint and the ones I caught were smaller . I found them in a shallow backwater area off the Mississippi river . 

Clear Lake in northern Iowa has a huge population of yellow bass. the spawning run is a big deal there and attracts a ton of fishermen.

a couple of my relatives make the trip from eastern Iowa to join in on the action. They bring hundreds of fish back.

Personally, I never felt the need to fight the crowds for a smaller version of a white bass, but to each their own.

[TnRiver46]

51 minutes ago, Russ E said:

Clear Lake in northern Iowa has a huge population of yellow bass. the spawning run is a big deal there and attracts a ton of fishermen.

a couple of my relatives make the trip from eastern Iowa to join in on the action. They bring hundreds of fish back.

Personally, I never felt the need to fight the crowds for a smaller version of a white bass, but to each their own.

Yellow bass taste better than white bass and there’s no creel limit, at least that’s the draw in this region 

[jimmyjoe]

     In a larger lake, yellow bass will "raft", or form dense horizontal schools. Hitting one of these rafts with UL or L spinning tackle is about as much fun as a person can have with their clothes on.    ?     jj

[DitchPanda]

My parents live by the Iowa great lakes Okoboji/Spirit area. Several of those lakes have solid populations of good sized yellow bass. They are very good eating, fight hard for the size and its easy to catch 50-100 at a time.

[scaleface]

36 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

They are very good eating,

Do they have the red streak like white bass ? I dont like white bass because of that red meat and its to much work and little return  to remove it .

[DitchPanda]

22 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Do they have the red streak like white bass ? I dont like white bass because of that red meat and its to much work and little return  to remove it .

All the ones I've ever cleaned did not have that red meat....they are a firm white meat with no muddy or fishy taste

[Russ E]

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

Do they have the red streak like white bass ? I dont like white bass because of that red meat and its to much work and little return  to remove it .

if you use an electric filet knife, the red meat can easily be left behind when you remove the filet from the skin. if fileted correctly white bass make the best filets for fish tacos.

[TnRiver46]

14 hours ago, scaleface said:

Do they have the red streak like white bass ? I dont like white bass because of that red meat and its to much work and little return  to remove it .

They typically don’t unless you get a huge one. Smaller white bass won’t have the red meat either (or nearly as much) 

 

13 hours ago, Russ E said:

if you use an electric filet knife, the red meat can easily be left behind when you remove the filet from the skin. if fileted correctly white bass make the best filets for fish tacos.

That’s the secret! I do the same thing with a fixed blade knife 

[Jig Man]

16 hours ago, scaleface said:

Do they have the red streak like white bass ? I dont like white bass because of that red meat and its to much work and little return  to remove it .

When I fillet one I only keep the meat above the lateral line.  I put the “fish sticks” in cold water and let the meat firm up.  Then I take the red out.  I like them better than crappie but not as well as walleye.

[Fred Allen]

So White Perch it is? Here is more pictures of ones I got.

 

 

[TnRiver46]

3 hours ago, Fred Allen said:

So White Perch it is? Here is more pictures of ones I got.

 

 

Yes

[Jigfishn10]

Yes. I agree with ^^^, definitively white perch.

 

Side note: I was working with @TnRiver46 on a lake home project and we caught a 5 gallon bucket full at lunch time. We had white perch for dinner for a week! ?

[allpurposedw]

My guess is White Bass.

[J Francho]

White bass have stripes.  It's a white perch.  To make it more confusing, up here we call them silver bass.

[MN Fisher]

23 minutes ago, J Francho said:

White bass have stripes.  It's a white perch.  To make it more confusing, up here we call them silver bass.

Your side of the state line - back when I lived in MA...that's a white perch. Caught them all the time in Indian Lake, Worcester.

[J Francho]

We call them white perch too, just more of a western NY thing I think.

[MassBass]

White perch. It has been mentioned that they eat well, but big specimens also fight pound for pound better than bass. The lakes in NH hide some big white perch, usually in direct competition with adult smallmouth. The river I fish now has many white perch about the size of the ones posted, but I am yet to catch a specimen as big as those in the deep rocky lakes.