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I remember a couple of my dad's friends stopping by the house when I was young on the way home from a trip to the Sandusky River for the spring walleye run, I guess it was just about over, they had a cooler full of huge white bass though, haven't seen them that big since. Caught white bass and white perch on Erie white perch were usually a good bit smaller and yellow - goldish tint to them. It was more common to catch the white perch in back water areas.

The incidental White Bass caught deepwater Pickeral trolling on Lake Erie were actually pretty decent on the table, White Perch on the other hand tend to be found in much warmer, discolored and poorer quality waters and I have found their flesh of poor quality. Some of the Erie White Bass were a real good size too. edit: Now that I think of it , we called them Silver Bass not White Bass, same fish though. Probably if they had come from the luke warm water where I had White Perch from they would have not been a palatable as they were from 60 something degree water where the Pickeral were.