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Worth · Individual fish profile

Striped Bass

Morone saxatilis

Worth · Keep or release
Daily bag
5
Length rule
18 in minimum

For striped and hybrid striped bass, minimum length limit = 18 inches and daily bag limit = 5 in any combination.

Striped Bass
Striped Bass · Identification features below.

Identify your catch

Usually seven or eight continuous horizontal stripes and two tongue tooth patches.

Habitat on Worth

Standing timber, boathouses, docks, piers, rocky shoreline and brush provide habitat.

Fishing approach

Lake guide guidance: TPWD describes bass near rocky banks and boathouses, crappie near reed beds and dock brush, spring white bass upriver, and catfish throughout the reservoir.

Fishing guidance describes documented approaches, not a promise of fish activity today.

Eating guidance · Striped Bass

Women of childbearing age and children younger than12; four-ounce meal: At most 1 meals per month; 4 oz per meal. Women past childbearing age and males12and older; eight-ounce meal: At most 2 meals per month; 8 oz per meal.

Harvest permission and eating restrictions are separate.

General species guide

Uses open water and feeds heavily on forage fish. Reservoir populations are often maintained by stocking.

General Striped Bass profile →
Sources & lake evidence

TPWD lake guide and reviewed fisheries evidence establish the listed species or group. Historical survey records do not establish current abundance.

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