![]() Size :Up to 4 feet and 90 pounds in California. Striped Bass from the Berkeley Pier in 2003 Brownish, copper, or steel bluish with brassy reflections more silverish on the sides seven or eight blackish, horizontal stripes on the side of the body. ![]() Identification : Typical bass shape with two dorsal fins. Striped bass caught by Stan at the Point Pinole Pier in 2003 CA Fish Bulletin #157 (1972) uses Roccus saxatilis. Although a bass, stripers are placed in the “temperate bass” family Moronidae instead of the “sea bass” family Serranidae, which is home to most of California’s saltwater bass.Īlternate Names :Striper, linesider, rock bass, rock fish, streaked bass and my favorites-squidhound or “rock.” Called lubina estriada in Mexico. CA Fish Bulletin #28 (1930) uses the name Roccus lineatus. Species : Morone saxatilis (Walbaum, 1792) from Morone (a word of unknown origin attributed to Samuel Latham Mitchell who named it in 1814) and the Latin saxatilis (to live among rocks). Temperate Sea Basses: Family Percichthyidae
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