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Comment by jim cosgrove on March 6, 2015 at 12:06pm

always seem to catch them when fishing for something else.an old secret bait for shore fisherman for hybrids is chicken liver.why it works i have no idea.guys fishing for cats on the bottom catch stripers all the time on chicken liver

Comment by Andy is OptiMystic on March 6, 2015 at 11:49am

Keeper sea run striper season just opened on the Roanoke the other day. You could probably cross the river at Weldon this weekend by hopping from boat to boat. No fishing for me this weekend though. Winter is finally pulling out and I am getting on a bus to go say goodbye to it; promised the kids a ski day. They run a bus from here to VA and back in a day. Way safer than driving yourself; sleep on the way up (leaves at 4AM) and watch a movie on the way back (they show one). Gets cheaper in March.

Comment by B. Waldman on March 6, 2015 at 11:47am

Hybrid Striper

Speaking of hybrid striped bass, this is my 2014 Indiana Fish of the Year winning HSB - 29.0 inches. Probably about 14-15 pounds. I caught 4 double digit hybrids this past year. This was the largest.

Comment by carl hendrix on March 6, 2015 at 11:41am

I definitly agree with you guys!!  a stripe; in my opinion;; will out fight a bass big time! and I have hooked into a couple of them on a fly rod!  if there is a definition of fun-- that has to be it!!

Comment by Andy is OptiMystic on March 6, 2015 at 11:21am

The hybrids grow faster and I think in the 5# range they are harder fighting fish. I have first hand knowledge of both in that class. Second hand knowledge generally agrees. I only have second hand knowledge of the 8# and above class but there seems to be consensus that the pure stripers fight harder in that size class. In the 17# and above class there are only stripers.

Comment by dick tabbert on March 6, 2015 at 11:21am

2wt fly rod caught on my dragonfly nymph.

http://bigbluegill.com/photo/hybrid-stripper?context=user

Comment by Tony Livingston on March 6, 2015 at 11:16am

There's a fish for your fly rods, boys....hybrid striped bass.

Comment by Tony Livingston on March 6, 2015 at 11:14am

My kids catch HSB on hot dogs while catfishing. I think they'll eat durn near anything. You hook a striper tail-to-tail with a comparably sized largemouth, and the striper will pull that greenback backwards through the water until he drowns it.

Then he would probably eat it.....

Comment by dick tabbert on March 6, 2015 at 11:07am

I've found there is lots of merit as to what Tony says about the Hybrid stripers. I can honestly say I have had good luck with mine. My first batch I purchased 6 or 7 years ago disapeared don't know why but I know they were easy to catch. Anybody that fishes my pond I do have rules and #1 rule is you keep no hybrids but it wasn't followed and they were gone. I put in another batch 12 fish 4 years ago. There going strong but all the kids who have fished it have gone grown and go  elsewhere now. I do catch them in spring summer and fall and in summer I have to cage them before turning back or they will go belly up. In the cage I keep them moving till they want to go on there own then put them back into the pond. They are a fun fish to watch well really you just see a streak of white under the water and more fun to catch but you really have to be careful with them in the summer months I don't target them but they do not discriminate they eat everything and there fore some are caught..

Comment by jim cosgrove on March 6, 2015 at 11:03am

andy those pure stripers are something.remember fishing for them in lake cumberland years ago.never got a big one in they broke line staightened hooks.even our native white bass are some tough little dudes.

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