Texas striped bass limits

Daily limit
5 per day, striped bass and hybrid striped bass combined

DatesOpen all year

Size ruleMinimum length 18 inchesHybrids are also called palmetto or sunshine bass. Possession is twice the statewide daily bag, so 10, except on Lake Texoma. White bass are a separate 25-fish, 10-inch bag. Yellow bass have no daily bag and no length limit.

Daily limit
10 per day, striped bass and hybrid striped bass combined

DatesOpen all year

Size ruleNo minimum length; only 2 fish 20 inches or longerPossession limit is 20. Culling striped bass and hybrid striped bass is prohibited. The statewide bag page names Lake Texoma as the possession exception for striped bass.

Daily limit
5 per day

DatesOpen all year

Size ruleNo minimum length; only 2 striped bass 30 inches or longerBoth water pages title the row 'Striped bass and their Hybrids,' then state the bag and the 30-inch cap for striped bass only. They do not repeat 'hybrid' in that sentence, so this page does not give hybrids their own number there.

Daily limit
2 per day

DatesOpen all year

Size ruleMinimum length 18 inchesThe Trinity page puts this under 'Striped bass and their Hybrids' and then names striped bass in the sentence. It does not set a separate possession number, so the statewide possession rule (twice the statewide daily bag) is the one that applies.

Daily limit
5 fish per day, all species combined (striped bass and hybrids included)

Size ruleNo minimum length for striped bassCommunity Fishing Lakes are public lakes of 75 acres or less inside a city or a municipal, county or state park. Pole and line only, no more than two poles. Only 1 of the 5 may be a black bass, and it must be 14 inches or longer. The same 5-fish cap, with that black bass rule, is on Canyon Lake Project #6, Como (Fort Worth), Elm, Madisonville, Pilant, Tucker Lake, Deputy Darren Goforth Park Lake, Brushy Creek Lake and Brushy Creek down to the Williamson/Milam County line, the North Concho River (O.C. Fisher Dam to Bell Street Dam) and the South Concho River (Lone Wolf Dam to Bell Street Dam). Generations Park, Nelson Park, Forest Park (Denton), Buck Lake, and Lost Maples Upper and Lower use a 5-fish cap that skips catch-and-release species and sets no minimum length; black bass there are catch-and-release. Lake Kyle is the same 5-fish cap, and largemouth bass, channel catfish and sunfish are the catch-and-release species.