Setup for white bass?

[CapeFairMO]

What is a good setup for white bass with a spinning reel. As far as rod length and action and line?

[Fat-G]

If I was going to get a specific setup:

St. Croix Avid AVS66MLF

Shimano Static 1000

4# Yo-Zuri Hybrid

[Iowa Matt]

Caught hundreds (likely thousands since they're my favorite fish!) of whites on the following:

St. Croix Avid 7' UL

Shimano Stradic 1000

6lb fireline or 5lb powerpro

Love the whites!

Matt

[roadwarrior]

If I was going to get a specific setup:

St. Croix Avid AVS66MLF

Shimano Stratic 1000

4# Yo-Zuri Hybrid

WOO-HOO!

;D ;D ;D

[von]

For white bass, I don't really use anything fancy.  I have a 6'6" UL Berkley Lightning rod, Quantum Optix 20 reel with 6 lb. P-line Flouroclear.  I've always thought about upgrading to a better rod and reel but I really enjoy my Berkley rod!  Every fish feels like a monster!

[Marty]

I always used my garden variety ultralight setup which was a 5'6" UL rod with 4# mono. If I were to buy another UL rod it would probably be longer, but as Von said, every fish feels like a monster.

I don't encounter white bass much anymore and I miss them.

[Bluebasser86]

Depends where you're fishing for them too. If you're catching them in open water a good light action combo will do just fine. If you find them around big rocks, trees, or docks and they are decent sized you'll probably be going through some baits from breakoffs. I use either a medium St.Croix premier and a Shimano Curado SF to make long cast to schooling fish, or a 6' 8" medium Mojo spinning rod with a 2500 symetre. 12lb test on the baitcaster, 8 on the spinning rod. There is too much nasty cover in the lakes around here and lots of 1-2 and sometimes up to 3 pound whites that will make short work of light line. If you can get away with the light stuff it's the way to go though, they're a blast on light gear!

[Midnight Splash]

My buddies were telling me last week there is a creek channel running off a lake close to me where they were limiting out on whites in no time. I guess they starting to spawn back there. They just used live minnows the whole time. I don't white bass fish. My question is, what it the most popular lure you could throw to catch these. I dont have a lot more info on the place other then I'll be bank fishing. I Don't know about the water color or anything else until I see it for myself. I was just looking to go buy a few lures I could use while my other rods sat in the rod holders fishing minnows.  It sound like 16" are caught the most but up to 4lbs from there trip there.

[scrutch]

My buddies were telling me last week there is a creek channel running off a lake close to me where they were limiting out on whites in no time. I guess they starting to spawn back there. They just used live minnows the whole time. I don't white bass fish. My question is, what it the most popular lure you could throw to catch these. I dont have a lot more info on the place other then I'll be bank fishing. I Don't know about the water color or anything else until I see it for myself. I was just looking to go buy a few lures I could use while my other rods sat in the rod holders fishing minnows. It sound like 16" are caught the most but up to 4lbs from there trip there.

Last year I was busting whites like crazy on a mepps "long mino " in-line spinner, size zero. It's the one with the little artificial minnow in the hook.

[roadwarrior]

Silver Buddy, Gay Blade, Little George and

silver or white lipless crankbaits. However,

#1 by a mile is live baby crawdads!

8-)

[krisjack69]

I have never caught a white bass before.I hear there fun to catch.

[Bluebasser86]

I catch a lot of them on shad color lipless rattle baits, road runners, white or chartruese grubs, shad raps, 3" storm wildeye swimbaits. They'll hit pretty much anything though, I've caught them on buzzbaits, spinnerbaits, jerkbaits, brush hogs, trick worms, DD22s, cut shad fishing for catfish, they aren't picky when they're feeding.

[RyneB]

3 wt fly rod with a white Clouser, white wooly bugger or any other shad imitation. It is a complete blast on the river when the whites are running. My other set up is a 6-6 Ul rod with a UL reel with 6 lb Sufix Elite. White mister twister with a chart. head is my best producer.

[The Rooster]

I use a 6'6" medium spinning rod, the same one I use for regular largemouth bass fishing, with 8# mono. I fish the Ohio River and here we have striped bass sometimes too. They're very rare to catch but I've seen them caught. None really huge, largest was 8 pounds (and I didn't catch it :'(), but since they're there then you will catch hybrids a lot of times too. White bass and hybrids is what I mostly catch. But all of them feel like a hog since they're caught out in the current so I want a stouter rod than just a UL or L.

My number one lure for these has always been a Worden's Roostertail. 1/8 oz. sometimes, 1/6 and 1/4 oz. mostly, with a few times seeing the need for 3/8 oz. just to get the bait down deeper or not get washed away with the current as fast. The place I fish for them is just below a dam and the current can be swift coming through it so that heavier bait sometimes helps. Then there are times when I can cast just a bit further than my buddies who are fishing lighter baits and I've seen it make a difference in size of fish caught too, like there was a school feeding just outside their casting range but I could hit it using that heavier bait.

Colors are....anything white or silver, and firetiger and chartreuse does well too. Other than that I don't need much else. Just cast and retrieve and they nearly tear the rod out of your hand when they hit.

I saw that some here have never caught one. Just so you know, you can lip them like a regular bass but watch out for their gill plate, it has a razor edge on the back side so keep your fingers out of there.