Nipissing White Bass

[JustFish]

White bass seem to be coming back everywhere. Port Credit was absolutely full of them earlier this month.

 

Are you seriously? White bass in Port Credit? Never heard there has white bass within 5 years. 10 years ago, maybe.

[AKRISONER]

caught one of these bad boys at random in Pointe Au Baril years ago, never seen once since.

[BowSlayer101]

Hammered them in sturgeon off the boat, biggest was 18" and tons of 17", good eating.

[JustFish]

Hammered them in sturgeon off the boat, biggest was 18" and tons of 17", good eating.

 

Good caught Bow, when will they come again?

[BowSlayer101]

They're there now, just gotta go with a boat, I don't even bother from shore.

[craigdritchie]

 

Are you seriously? White bass in Port Credit? Never heard there has white bass within 5 years. 10 years ago, maybe.

 

 

Seriously. I hadn't seen one in a long time either, then just like that they seem to have returned. I know their populations are cyclic, but Lake O seems to be completely boom or bust.

 

Remember how many there used to be at the Pickering nuke plant? Then they just disappeared.

[JustFish]

They're there now, just gotta go with a boat, I don't even bother from shore.

 

You fish under the fall? Or beside the stock?

 

I gonna go back next weekend. Hope they are still there.

Edited May 28, 2015 by JustFish

[JustFish]

 

 

Seriously. I hadn't seen one in a long time either, then just like that they seem to have returned. I know their populations are cyclic, but Lake O seems to be completely boom or bust.

 

Remember how many there used to be at the Pickering nuke plant? Then they just disappeared.

Yeah, nobody knows what happend to those white bass. Still glad to hear that they come back finally.

[Old Ironmaker]

Are they called White Perch too in some places?

[craigdritchie]

White perch and white bass are closely related, but they are two different species. White perch look almost identical to white bass but don't have the dark stripes along their sides.

Edited May 28, 2015 by Craig_Ritchie

[BillM]

I remember slamming them off the pier at Port D as a kid. Those made for some fun days.

[Headhunter]

As a kid fishing Springbank Park in London, tossing a minnow, no weight into the bottom of the falls at the dam could net you these fish all day long.

Caught a few on Quinte in the spring and decided to keep one to try a fish fry... well that won't be happening again!

HH

[BowSlayer101]

You fish under the fall? Or beside the stock?

I gonna go back next weekend. Hope they are still there.

I fish off a boat, all over, I just look for a relatively quiet pool, where the current cycles around and anchor and jig em' up, they also hit cranks, spinners, spoons, pretty much anything as long as you find a school, filled up a big cooler full of them last weekend, big ones too.

[Gerritt]

I fish off a boat, all over, I just look for a relatively quiet pool, where the current cycles around and anchor and jig em' up, they also hit cranks, spinners, spoons, pretty much anything as long as you find a school, filled up a big cooler full of them last weekend, big ones too.

So their editable?

[BowSlayer101]

So their editable?

From sturgeon? Very, they taste kind of like a bass/crappie mix, especially when fresh, not sure how they taste in other places, I've been told their not the best from lake O

[JustFish]

Are they called White Perch too in some places?

 

white perch is much smaller than white bass, and only one stripe. white bass has three stripes.

Edited May 28, 2015 by JustFish

[JustFish]

I fish off a boat, all over, I just look for a relatively quiet pool, where the current cycles around and anchor and jig em' up, they also hit cranks, spinners, spoons, pretty much anything as long as you find a school, filled up a big cooler full of them last weekend, big ones too.

 

I saw two person on a boat last weekend. Was that you there?

I also found huge walleye in that river, more than 30 inches length.

[BowSlayer101]

If it was a sea doo and on the other side of the falls with a Bimini top up than yes!

[BowSlayer101]

And are you are they were walleye and not suckers or carp? Because there's tons of that jumping around.

[SRR]

The South River between Chapman's Chute and Lake Nipissing is loaded with them too in the spring.

[JustFish]

And are you are they were walleye and not suckers or carp? Because there's tons of that jumping around.

 

We three people saw those giant species, wont be wrong. Huge walleye.

[dave524]

I see in this weeks Sobey's Flyer , wild Lake Erie White Bass @ $5.99 a pound. We would get them occasionally Walleye fishing there , suspended offshore with the eyes, pretty good size too at times, never kept one to try on the table.

[fishindevil]

Like Craig Ritchie says back in the day fishing the warm water outflow at the Pickering nuke plant by boat we would catch a 100 a day !!! Some days you would have to leave as you could not catch anything else !!!! They were in that thick !!! Also Oshawa harbor and port D they would keep you busy for hours !!! They were fun to catch

[BowSlayer101]

We three people saw those giant species, wont be wrong. Huge walleye.

the walleye population in the river isn't great and they're not big, people could be wrong but who knows, a walleye over 30 inches is huge and seeing more than 1 is very rare for the river, I did see suckers which could supposedly be mistaken for walleye, if you were on shore, you probably couldn't see them too well, they were splashing around right under the boat last weekend, lots of carp too.