Originally Posted by
Phil from Maine
I am glad you had to spend some quality time with your dad and to catch a few fish to go with it. Congrats to you and your dad.. Those silver bass sure looks like our white perch to me.. But, then again I have never seen any silver bass before..
Those Silver Bass are in the same family as White Perch and Striped Bass - the latin name for the family is Moronidae. They do look an awful lot alike - I have caught both of them and the Silver Bass - or White Bass as we used to call them, look more like a Striped Bass - In fact - there is a hybrid they plant in the big reservoirs down south that is called a Wiper and it is a Striped Bass - White Bass cross breed.