White bass provide a variety of angling opportunities on Rend Lake as they move from staging areas to the spawning areas of the lake. White bass are a cousin of the saltwater striped bass and as such have much of the savage instinct of their brethren. They will hit light tackle and give the angler all he can handle. Anglers on Rend Lake sometimes confuse white bass with the hybrid stripers stocked into the lake. What is an immature hybrid can be confused for a mature white bass. It is important to the hybrid population that these immature hybrids return to the water, while the white can go home for dinner. A 14‑inch white bass is a good size white bass, but it is small for a hybrid striper. A 14‑ to 18‑inch hybrid stripers weighs 2 or 3 pounds. If returned to the lake, they can grow in three or four years into 10‑pound fighters.
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