I love wipers. I’ll never forget the 18″ I caught under a log on the Minnesota river. It was actually a white bass, but its all the same as far as a fight.
I am surprised people don’t target them more. They seem to be a fall back fish when other fish are slow. They remind me of Crevalle Jacks here. To a T everyone regard them as one of the hardest fighting fish, yet no one goes out looking for them. But if you find a school you fish them. The difference ifs I think white bass make decent table fare.
I totally agree. I went on a trip to South Dakota once – for walleye and crappie. Well it wasn’t the week for those species and we inadvertently caught a bunch of white bass. After about 2 hours we caught 15 or so between 2-3 lbs. My dad turned to me and said these things fight like 5 pound smallmouth… “I’m so spoiled I don’t even want to catch walleyes now!”
Got a phone call from the other party who said to keep a few of the white bass and he’d clean them for us. He took out all the dark meat which left some really nice, white, flakey fillets that were awesome to eat later that night.
I’ve heard the Wipers are similar table fare but get even bigger and fight like He@l! Would be a blast to do sometime.
Still think James and crew should do a show on them… gotta be a shorter drive than the Montana shows they’ve done… or hit Kansas on the way there 
