Figured this was the closest category since yellows don’t have a category to call home. A couple years ago a friend and I got into a few yellow bass while fishing the crappie spawn along the shallow grass edges. An old timer told us to cook some up and we’d never throw them back. He was right. Now this friend of mine is coming back to visit and wants to target them while here but I know nothing about them. Do they school like white bass? Should they be targeted on humps and islands? How would you go about targeting them? Thanks in advance!

If you can find the sand bass you can find the yellow bass. They follow an identical pattern and usually school together. Seems the further east you go the more you find. A small slab (5/8 oz) with a jig tied above it is a great way to target them.

This is the time of the year my chef wife reminds me about bringing home some yellow bass which makes me the Yellow Bass in my angler kingdom lol. A week ago we caught 15 good size yellows at Greenville Pump Station hump in 11 fow. They were 9 to 10 inchers fatties, and were caught among the 200+ white bass using mepps and slabs.

In my 55 years of fishing for white bass, I have caught many yellow bass in with them. But I have only seen them surface schooling once - at Richland Chambers Lake in 1995. They outnumbered the whites and it was hard to catch a white for all the schooling yellow bass. I learned later that year there was a big fish-kill at RC and I think it must have gotten most of the yellow bass. I've been there many times since and have not seen them schooling there since.

I fished Lake Fork yesterday and caught more yellow bass than white bass.

They are the most efficient bait thieves I have ever seen.
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My niece was in from Los Angeles. Loves to fish…not good at it. She and my sister fed two boxes of worms and three dozen minnows in about four hours. Seems everywhere we went yellow bass were there and hungry. They only caught a couple and a couple nice cats. I caught three on a kastmaster spoon but I did not fish much.

Locally, they call them bar fish…not due to the stripes, but due to their tendency to congregate on San bars in the river.

Lake Arlington is full of them.