I don’t know why I never though of it before but its getting close to sand bass run time so if you would, please update this thread with times and catches (place need only be broadly general, not trying to get anyone to give up the honey hole) and we’ll get a better idea of how the season is developing.
thank you
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Robyn I’m going this weekend if you wanna come along…
Excuse my ignorance. Sand Bass? Nothing called that in Wisconsin
hey coach, a.k.a. white bass 
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Mike
I sure do need to go fishing. Life has conspired, a conspiracy I say! to prevent me having fun. These new babies are tapping the resources, I have been pretty much a vicarious angler for some good while now.
But your kind invitations are not forgotten and I do intend to make up that way as soon as its good for me and everyone else involved.
thank you and tight lines!
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Hey Robin,
I’ve not gone out for white bass yet – not with fly tackle, that is – but I intend to try it this year. Kansas has a couple of lakes with reputations for good white bass fishing.
Could you shed some light on what kind of flies whites go for? I’m guessing minnow imitators are the most effective overall, but have you ever enjoyed success using insect imitators?
Joe
“Better small than not at all.”
Joe
As far as I know, the spawning sandies are looking for minnows. I have never heard of using insect patterns but then again, there is a lot that I have not heard of ")
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Thanks, Robin, I’ll see what I can do. I have a few minnow imitators to use.
Joe
Here in Arkansas the fish are starting to pick up in eddies on the river where the current(if found is breaking). They were catching a lot of them SUnday evening but to crowded for me and the flyrod had to jig fish.
I have had really good luck past couple of years on yellow and black clauser minnows with red eyes. My boy will not use anything now that doesnt have red eyes. He is always asking for a red eye jig or fly when we go white bass fishing.
Joe, try Rick’s Cypert’s Minnow down that way, and if you have any luck I’ll use them up here at ice out. I’ve been tying them with a red hackle just behind the weight before stringing up the white chennile. Sort of a red gill effect, or affect, or whatever that word is that causes me to fail the NY Times employment test every time. JGW
Down here in middle georgia we don’t expect to see the bass begin to spawn until around late march, early april. I was once told they will run when the dogwoods bloom, and last year I have decided this bit of advice is dead on, or at least for last year
I didn’t go last weekend. I stayed home and took care of sick kids and worked on some cane rods I had promissed as gifts. I’m going this weekend for sure but I’m not sure if I wanna try the sandies or the trout.
Mike,
Decisions, decisions, decisions Hope the kiddos are getting over the bug.
Reports are coming in that the fish are starting to show up in the creeks and feeders in the central Texas area around Austin.
Its getting really nice here in North Texas, 72? here in Collin County. So I expect water temps are heating up very nicely south of here.
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I know that wipers(whit bass/striper hybrids) love to feast on gizzard shad. Maybe a gizzard shad fly woudl work…
I live in Texas. I have been wearing the sandies out in the Neches river.
I’ve been catching them all winter at the spillway at Carters Lake in Ga. I don’t think they['ve started spawning yet, though. They hit small Clouser minnows like there’s no tomorrow. Yellow bass, too! I’ve started catching some crappie in the last few days, as well.
Semper Fi!
Anthony,
I had tied a clouser with white bottom and gray top with some silver flashabou in it and a small dab of red wool below the eyes and had good success with it when the whites are chasing shad schools in the heat of the summer but not had much luck on it during the spawn for some reason. I like Yellow/Black with read eyes and also Orange/CHartruese green when the water is really murky.