The Stripped Bass has a deep and keel-less caudal peduncle, stout body, the presence of two well-developed dorsal fins, which are spiny and soft rayed, and each one is about as long as the other. It does not have a dorsal or anal finlets and it’s tail is modestly forked.
It’s anal fin has three spines and is as long as the second dorsal fin. It’s upper jaw bones are not sheathed by the pre-orbital bone, which separates it from all the weakfish tribe. Striped bass’s trunk is four times as long as it is deep.
It is thick through and its back is hardly arched. The striped bass has a moderately stout caudal peduncle and a long head. It has two spines on the margin of each gill cover and an oblique mouth gaping back to the eye with a moderately pointed nose and a projecting lower jaw.
The eye has a golden colour, which provides good contrast to it silvery body. Most other freshwater bass, members of the sunfish family, usually have a red eye.
The young striped bass are more slender than old the old stripers. The two dorsal fins are equal in length. The first fin has nine or ten stiff spines in a triangular outline. It originates over the middle of the pectorals. The second dorsal fin has 12 or 13 soft rays that are regularly graduated in height from front to rear and separated from the first by a distinct space.
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