those are hybrid stripers and NOT the true stripers you find elsewhere so they only get about as big as regular bass get, you wont see any really big ones but they are very good eating and you can sometimes find schools of them.

Oxbow Hybrid Must me Kin to Redfish for the Fighting

Yep True Stripper lil diff lookin..........We catch Hybrid every Spawnin season Feb-March Ole Oxbw Lake in New Roads

The lines on a true striper are straight. The lines on a hybrid will be a little offset. hybrids can get pretty big, 15-20 pounds. stripers can get much bigger. White bass look a lot like the hybrids but much smaller. Not sure how they taste, never tried them.

When I was a kid, me and a buddy filled up a 55 gallon garbage bag with hybrids where the restaurant was in West End in the east. It was actually 2 heavy duty bags, each half full. It was every cast on dead shrimp. One of the bags busted when walking across Haynes to walk back to his house. This was around 1990. They were all 12'-16' and fought hard. Good memories.

2 Person Limit 10!!!! Awesome Fight!!!

Yep Iceman you think ya had Bull Red

Matthew Brady

27.5lb 43 inch Striped bass - caught on live eel

Matthew Brady

Box full of Stripers

Drake - Here ya go. These pics are of the real thing. If you can find live eels, that's your best bait goin'. It's like crack cocaine for Striped Bass.

As for the texture & taste, their fillets are more subtle than Redfish. Some whiners say that Stripers are 'gamey'. NOT SO. Especially if you bleed the fish right before you chuck 'em in the ice chest. Rip out a few gill rakers, knife 'em behind the pectoral fins (the 'armpits') and at the tail. The meat won;t be light pink,it'll be white.

Mark/ Catch-All

White, Yellow, & Striped Bass

There are three species in Louisiana striped bass, white bass, and yellow bass. There is also the hybrid striped bass which is a cross between a striped bass and a white bass. In south Louisiana striped bass are found in the rivers and coastal areas usually associated with current and rock jetties or other hard structure. They are found both in freshwater and saltwater. They have solid, unbroken black stripes and a body shape similar to a speckled trout, but can grow significantly larger.
White bass are scattered throughout freshwater areas of the state, but prefer flowing water of rivers and adjacent water bodies. They have a deeper body with smaller mouths and average around a foot in length.
Yellow bass are found in freshwater lakes and bayous, Lake des Allemands has a healthy population. They tend to average less than 8 inches and have very distinct black stripes and a golden coloration. Also the underside of the jaw has an iridescent purple hue especially during spawning season.
Hybrids are larger than a white bass, but smaller than a striped bass with the general body shape of a white bass. The stripes however are broken.
The diversions along the Mississippi River have all the species, although yellow bass are not very abundant. The stripers and hybrids are most common right at the structure in the turbulent water.

Temperate Bass? I prefer Intemperate Bass that drink too much. :)

Just kidding A.Salva! Very informative post & pic. Thanx

I caught my first one 2 days ago in Lakeshore.....surprised me too...

Capt. C...in our area, I've had pretty good luck fishing the dropoffs in the Pearl River during the Fall/Winter....mel

Can't wait couple more month when the Hybrid start runnin@False River!!!!!