i,ll try to explane this as best as i can. im sure others will chime in and do a bettr job.

a white bass is a silver white pan fish with stripes on the sides its a fresh water fish. a striper is more of a round fish that has stripes it is a salt water fish that can live in fresh water. they go to fresh water to spawn. the way they got started in fresh water, down south they damed up a river to make a lake snd probably to have a power plant. well they trapped some stripers in the lake. i cant remember the name of the lake where this all started. so they found this lake to be a perfect place for stripers. so then they started stocking the stripers in river systems and in alot of large deep lakes. they do pretty good in deeper lakes like brookville lake in southern indiana, and in the ohio river system.

the wiper and hybrid are the same fish. with the striper growing so big and not that aggressive they crossed the white bass with the striper because the white bass is more aggressive, and they got a fish they called a hybrid or wiper. a small striper is hard to tell from the white bass. but the striper is slimer and not as much of a pan fish. im sure there are ways to tell them apart but i just dont know what it is. the bigger stripers are very easy to tell because white bass doesnt get that big. the striper will have big black lines running from one end to the other. the wiper can get pretty good sized and has the black stripes but they will be broken lines and not solid from the front to the back. and the wiper gets alot bigger than the white bass but doesnt get as big as the stripers.

and im not sure about this but i believe the wiper is a faster growing fish than the pure striper. so they are an ideal sport fish. they grow fast they can be very aggressive and the wiper and striper is sopposed to be good table fare.

this is pretty much all i know about these fish, but im sure some of the guys that target these fish can fill in the parts i missed or just didnt know.
sherman

 

Good explanation. Thanks Sherman

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Fine job Sherman. In the pics are a White Bass, Hybrid Striper and Striper in that order.

 

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/sites/....gov/sites/default/files/pdf/document/34820-monroe-id-guide/morone_id_guide.pdf

this chart explains pretty good if it will come up.

 

White bass, striper, wiper, hybrid. I hear these terms connected to these different fish. They all look pretty similar to me. What is the difference?

My quick ID guide is as follows: Look at the stripes - white bass usually have one good line down to the tail and relatively "lineless" bellies. Stripers usually have thick dark stripes, with some being broken but 2-3 extending down to the tail. Hybrids usually have pretty broken stripes that aren't as thick as stripers. Some big hybrids and stripers look very similar so look at their body shape. The hybrids have a football shaped head and a fat belly. All of the stripers I've caught are long and streamlined with very dark stripes.

This website breaks it down pretty well:
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/pwdpubs/wbass_diagrams.phtml

Identification of White, Striped and Hybrid Striped Bass

White Bass
A Stripes faint, only one extends to tail
B Body deep, more than 1/3 length
C Has one tooth patch near the midline towards the back of the tongue

Striped Bass
A Stripes distinct, several extend to tail
B Body slender, less than 1/3 length
C Has two, distinct tooth patches near the midline towards the back of the tongue

Hybrid Striped Bass
Note: For hybrids, all characteristics should be considered in combination, as characteristics in individual fish may vary.
A Stripes distinct, usually broken, several extend to tail
B Body deep, more than 1/3 length
C Has two tooth patches near the midline towards the back of the tongue. Tooth patches may be distinct or close together.


It gets tricky when the white bass are big, the hybrids are small, and the stripers have a lot of broken lines:

 

I usually call every one I catch under16” a white bass even though where I fish it could be a white bass or a hybrid. When I catch one about 15 or 16” I check the tooth patch on the tongue; white bass = one, hybrid = two.
I’ve only caught one actual striper and it was obvious that it was not a hybrid or a white bass; it had two tooth patches on the tongue. A hybrid looks like giant white bass, this was much more streamlined and the stripes were darker.