Well went out on Toledo Thursday to check a couple spots for the splash. Got to a ledge threw a dd22 and boom then drag started peeling off. Stripers were all over the ledge. This is the first time I've got into them but wow it's awesome. My question is this place looks to be a promising spot for Largemouth but with the stripers there should I bother. Will they hang together? Also everytime I threw a jig I would catch a white bass.

My experience is when stripers and whites school in the lmb move up.

I catch black bass in coves and off structure like points and ledges in New Mexico, usually with cover. Stripers tend to be in water highways sort of speak, where a hump, point or drop off right on the main channel of deep water. Where shad bunch up I would guess all predators would be there. Before they stocked stripers I could catch a LMB out in the deeper water, now not as much. Once in a while you hook a striper fishing coves and brush for crappie or bass.

Sounds like a good spot, did you catch any black bass there? I am not sure but I think striper and whites are a little quicker.

I can't give a definite answer to your question but I can tell you what I have experienced.

I've caught LMB mixed in with White Bass. I have never caught LMB mixed in with hybrid striped or striped bass. If the LMB are mixed in with the stripers, I would have to guess that they would a size that is too big for the striped bass to eat.

Why were you catching white bass on your jigs? - The white bass were following the school of striped bass. Big fish up top busting the shad up, little fish down low picking up the scraps or feeding on wounded fish. If the smaller white bass get to high in the water they run risk of getting swallowed as well.

After the stiped fish move out, don't be surprised if you catch a monster blue with a jig.

If I were fishing for LMB and ran up on a school of feeding striped fish like that I think that I would have done one of two things. Fish on top of the flat where it gets shallower. Or move down that same ledge until you find a point, rocks, high spot, etc. Those shad are going to run somewhere.
And when they do, there will be another predetor type fish wating on them.

Fishing top water on Lake Travis in the late 70s and on Lake Whitney in the last several years we have caught mixes of Black Bass and Stripers... especially fishing points early in the morning when there are lots of shad. They both love Zaro Spooks and other large top water lure.

Had that very experience a couple of weeks ago on Texoma. We were fishing down near the bottom 30ft with live shad on schools of smallish striper surrounded by guides. As soon as the striper moved out we started catching a bunch of blue cats. No monsters but some really good sized blues.

I used to catch nice bass on top of a levee that runs through Ray Hubbard. There were other ridges and drop offs that I called worm holes. I won or placed in several tourneys fishing those holes. Now when I fish a worm in those spots I get nothing but sandbass hits. I think bass and sandbass might tolerate each other if they are chasing shad but as far as sharing the same structure, I think a bass will move out and let the sb/stripers have it to themselves.

Sometimes when I catch a few LMB on Tawakoni mixed in with striper and hybrid, I go back and fish worms, jigs, carolina rigs.... and catch the snot out of black bass. You can never figure fish out. Trust me, I try to for a living

The interesting thing about this thread to me is that stripers have not been stocked on TBend by TP&W since 2002.

Anyone know if La. has a striper stocking program?

Any stripers remaining in TBend would be trophy class fish by now...unless there is some natural spawn going on up the river. Very interesting.

What size were these fish?

THERE IS AT THE END OF THE DAM A NURSERY FOR STRIPERS. YEARS AGO YOU COULD FISH IN WHAT NOW IS A RESTRICTED AREA. YOU COULD SEE THE STRIPERS IN THE WATER ,HUNDREDS OF STRIPERS UP TO 30 AND 40 POUNDS. I HAVE NOT SEEN ,IN THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS ,MANY BIG FISH AS IN THE PAST. TB IS A SLEEPER FOR BIG STRIPERS IN THE LAKE. I AM CONFIDENT THERE ARE SOME MONSTERS STILL AROUND IN THE LAKE.