Get 'em on ice right away and clean soon as you get home. Same goes for small sheephead. The key here is to keep 'em chilled.

Which is a good thing that they can't reproduce. They'd clean a lake out fast. White bass are bad enough.

I stand corrected, thanks for the information guys.

I seriously doubt the DNR would stock any fish in WI that had no season and no bag limit

the Yahara joins the Rock , which joins the Illinois and the Mississippi and gets to the gulf

I had heard of them on Kegonsa just never caught one before

these are basically the same as Rock bass in WI take and eat all you want the DNR does not care

they do stay small , while they get huge in other places in WI the record stripe bass is 1 pound 9.3 ounces 17 inches so this one was probably 15 inches the fillets were decent size and ate well.
the record hybrid is just shy of 14 pounds and 28 inches
although the state record for the hybrid was Lake Columbia which is a cooling lake for the power plant in Columbia , it gets fish of unusual size because it doesn't freeze in the winter near the plant it creates a micro climate for fish to stay active and feed all winter

15 is a nice eater size on these I could eat them every week if I could catch enough.

I may try some lead line the planer boards really help to get lines out and cover water and keep lines from all wanting to go strait back where if a fish runs 8 feet one way or the other they cross lines

got this one on a Berkley flicker shad but spoons might work decent also

have a small live well on the boat that we kept it alive in till we were home , then filleted it right away and got it in a bag in the fridge.

Wipers are extremely popular for stocking in ponds. Millions are sold by fish hatcheries in the US. People bucket stock fish all over the country.

Keith

We are coming down there in a couple weeks to fish with Cole Cook of Texoma Striper Company

Very interesting, Keith.

WI DNR lists their stocking back to 1972 , if they are sterile and were stocked pre-72 that would make them a >51 year old fish

https://apps.dnr.wi.gov/fisheriesmanagement/Public/Summary/Index

my first thought would be well maybe they only listed game species stocked , but they had a lot of minnow species stocked so that doesn't really figure

I live about 1.5 miles from Kegonsa and fish it regularly, its full of white bass. Waubesa up river has both white and yellow bass. Monona has some also. If you want to load the boat with them head up Mendota and troll spinners or little cleo spoons in blue and silver, also watch for diving seagulls and get over there quick and cast its a blast on light tackle. The key to eating them is to keep your fillet knife about a 1/4" above the skin when skinning and V out the lateral red line. You dont want any red meat on fillet and as previosly said get them on ice pronto.

I forgot about boards. I've 10 Church boards with 2 differant releases. 6 of them I put my own spring loaded flags on and use pinch pads set up for power pro inland and 4 set up with releases for Lake Michigan.

That's a white bass...not a striper or a hybrid.

The Wildlife here stocks stripers in a few lakes to help control the blueback herring populations. We have lakes with hybrids, stripers, and whites. The bluebacks really hurt the whites in some lakes by eating the eggs, as well as the walleye eggs. You can try inline trolling weights to help get deeper. But I don't know if the weights will work on planer boards??

There are several species of fairly similar fish in the striped bass family Moronidae, the true basses. They mostly all have a similar feature that affects how humans consider them as food. Along their sides they have pores in their scales that form a "lateral line" and which is very sensiive to vibrations in the water which is a major way they detect prey. Behind that lateral line is a strip of red tissue that receives the vibrations and that is nerve tissue. Most of us when we eat fish are enjoying the flavor of white muscle fiber and find that the red nerve tissue has a bad or perhaps very bad flavor. If one carefully removes all the red nerve tissue from a white bass for example most would not detect a difference in flavor from walleye muscle.

thank you very much @Mendota

it had a Y bone in it that ran right down that red line of tissue

skin on scaled , slicing out the y bones with most of the red tissue around them I could make 3 pieces out of each side that cooked nicely

I looked at some white bass picks , and that is certainly what I had , also thanks for the tip on Mendota

we like the Madison lakes but prefer the ones with state launches as we have to pay extra not being Dane county residents

also the blessing and curse of blue green algae this year , didn't have any ski boats or wave runners or much for cruisers running us down this year.

2 years ago I had a guy sure he could get around me on the inside , when I left him all of the channel he cut my lines and got himself hung up on a sand bar. could have driven 10 of his boats side by side through the channel the channel was 30 feet deep and I was anchored in 7 right on the top of the drop off had lines up into the shallows and down into the deep

Looks like a regular white bass to me

well I went looking at other planer boards

$$$ everything else is quite expensive 35-45 for even small boards

already having one and seeing that most of them use a snap swivel off the back of the board

the opti uses a ball bearing system that springs back after you pull the line into it , this system if the board comes loose can cost you a board and even at 15 dollars each who wants to drop money in the water that they don't need too

my solution , put a snap swivel in the ball bearing line grabber then turn the adjustment screw till it would go in no more and that locks the snap swivel in

we went fishing to day , it was windy , we trolled all over , found a pile of suspended fish 5-10 feet like a line on the graph , fish jumping around us , but we couldn't pick up a bite