White bass often travel in large schools as they feed near the surface. White bass move to tributary streams or shoals to spawn in the spring. The female deposits between 250,000 and 1 million heavy, adhesive eggs either near the surface or midwater in 6-7 feet of water. The eggs sink to the bottom where they stick to gravel, boulders, or vegetation. No parental care is given eggs or young, which hatch in about 2 days.
White bass feed primarily on other fish and insects.
They are considered a good sport fish, being hard fighters and good eating. Distribution of white bass in NY state. Dark dots represent where actual samples of white bass were taken. White dots represent historic distributions. A 368 KB image of the white bass is also available for download .