It�s unusual for me to ever have anyone request to to catch yellow bass so you can imagine my surprise when today it happened. I�m told yellow bass make the best ceviche. Who�d a thunk it. Anyway, we caught yellow bass and crappie. All were caught on jigs and minnows in 28 to 30 ft.

Nice slabs.

WTG!

Very nice!

Nice crappie for the bonus!

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Yellow bass, if large enough to make it worth cleaning, are great eating. Nice white flesh, great for frying.

You say yellow bass are good for eating? Are these big enough to eat?

"they been watching football, and eating chicken wings..." KVD

Yes, those are huge yellow bass. Ceviche for everyone.

I don't get out much. I believe that is the first yellow bass I have ever seen, much less a picture of it. Looks like a cross between a sand bass and a crappie. Are they common in Texas? I do not remember ever seen one in the Brazos River or in any lakes west of Mineral Wells. Okay i do not have many friends either, what is Ceviche? Tks in advance.

Those are sand bass, not yellow bass. Yellow bass have an actual yellow tint to their belly.

Nice haul!!

Thank you for the great post!

at Fork they are called Bar-fish or yellow bass. They are everywhere, well at least I think so...they love minnows, and we don't have a
problem catching them. Most we catch are between 6"-10" and their gill plates are like razor blades. But, fun to catch when the day goes slow...
Some bass fisherman say that schools of barfish are where the big bass hang out....

Well shoot y�all made me dig out some more pics to prove I know what a yellow bass looks like lol the one in the top right of the cooler is a yellow along with the bottom pic.

Nice catch, but every jr game warden worth his salt knows you have to check the tooth patch.

Nice yellows though.

Big old slabs.

Nice catch! I have never seen a yellow bass that big before. Usually the ones I have caught are not much bigger than the slab I was using.

I actually think they are some kind of hybrid yellow. But they do grow rather large in Lake Fork. On a side note, can somebody do something about this rain

Whatever they are, they must have been fun catching those. Pull like a mule.

How deep are those .

I'm eating crow tonight.

After calling out Gary on those yellow bass (not sand bass as I had incorrectly and foolishly reported), I did a little research. Yep. I was wrong as rain. I never really paid attention to them, but the yellow bass do grow to that size. So what I have called a sand bass may well have been a big yellow bass. Please accept my apology.

The moral here for me. Chose your words wisely for you may have to eat them later.

nice, ......

Gamblinman, spoken kike a true gentleman. Admitting it, you move on to being correct in your views.
If you have never been wrong, you never took any chances.

They kinda remind me of Hybrid bass I have caught on Rayburn in the past....cross between white bass and striper.

Well done.