How to identify striped, yellow, white and hybrid bass

Louisiana has three species of bass that bear bold, black stripes running the lengths of their bodies: yellow bass, white bass and striped bass. Those three — along with their Atlantic Coast cousin, the white perch (not what we call white perch in Louisiana) — make up the family Moronidae, commonly called temperate basses, an entirely different family than the black basses. All three gamefish voraciously attack artificial lures and live baits, especially in the […]