Like hybrid sunfish featured in the December newsletter, hybrid crappie aren’t totally sterile. Hybrid populations are controlled when stocking them alongside the bass and bluegill which feed on their offspring. Black bass are good using topwaters, crankbaits, spinners, craws, and worms staying close to timber and some deeper points near the dam. October of 10 they were 7-9" but low WR - probably a function of lack of forage on my part. … Prospect: The DNR stocks hybrid striped bass every year at Carters. However, crappies are not known to cross breed outside of their core family. And I think males don't get as big as females, so you really would wanna get all females. Guess I'd better learn how to determine crappie sex... With shipping I almost paid $4 per lake chubsucker! However, these are hard fighting fish that are worth targeting! Totally agree, Travis. Black bass are best around docks and rocks using jigs, Texas rigs, square bills and spinnerbaits. Sounds like once they got into the main pond with more forage they blew up! I stocked 150 Hybrid crappie from Rex in a .15 acre experimental pond October 09 at 3-4". Chairman, Pond Boss Legacy award; Moderator; field correspondent. Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.4. Once they found the main pond, the forage was there for them to grow quickly. … Recent DNR sampling and angler reports suggest hybrid striped bass abundance is above average. Catfish slow. I simply want a chance to grow 15-18" fish and bring friends and tell them to throw a tube jig and hold on. A hybrid striped bass, also known as a wiper or whiterock bass, is a hybrid between the striped bass (Morone saxatilis) and the white bass (M. chrysops).It can be distinguished from the striped bass by broken rather than solid horizontal stripes on the body. Maybe it was my fish goggles, but the blacknose I caught was pushing 15" and wasn't skinny to my untrained eye. While they are not sterile, their fry are undersized and combined with a healthy population of bream and bass, most of their young do not make it … . I could stock regular Crappie - but would have to select Female only, and I can only sex them on beds. Live bait has been the ticket 2-3ft off the bottom. Thanks for the nudge-nudge. Mark Twain . Crappie, bass, catfish, hybrids. Topwater plugs, crankbaits, and swimbaits are effective with surfacing schools of hybrids and white bass. "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. The only research we've sourced states they will reproduce, but the F2's do not grow fast and are "inferior" and highly susceptible to predation from BG, YP - and in my case, SMB and HSB. Getting closer and closer...Hopefully soon I'll find a source. Hybrid stripers are good with live bait in the main lake from 22-35’. � 2014 POND BOSS INC. all rights reserved USA and Worldwide, Chairman, Pond Boss Legacy award; Moderator; field correspondent. Docks with lights are giving up some good hybrids in the 3-10 pound range at night on ‘Traps and square bills. The crappies are moving off the brush piles … Landed about 60 fish during the day and brought home some for a fish fry. Get Hooked Guide Service is a fishing guide on Lake Lewisville, TX specializing in crappie, white bass, catfish and hybrid stripers. Moderator White Bass/Striper/Hybrid Forum * Crappie.com Supporter. TJ, if Todd is willing to experiment with chubsuckers, maybe you can beg him into experimenting with triploid crappies. Shop unique Black Crappie face masks designed and sold by independent artists. The water is lightly stained in the Osage and slightly colored to stained in the Grand Arm. Striped bass hybrids fair on slabs in the main lake. I was thinking the same thing as you Travis. If you are and you aren't seeing any HSB, it would seem they didn't make it. I had never seen anything like it. Very cool. Be sure to tune in at 1 pm CST, and learn all “The Hype Mans” netting secrets. The resulting hybrid displays limited reproduction and increased growth. Because crappie are such prolific spawners and will quickly overpopulate small bodies of water, hybrid crappie are much more suited for stocking. Crappie remain slow. I was careless I suppose, but honestly never thought a FHM could make that tiny stream let alone a 8" crappie. Lake Bridgeport guide Keith Bunch has been chasing sand bass and hybrid stripers. Honestly didn't believe it until I caught one myself...no offense Josh - just hard to conceive. STAMFORD: FAIR. GSF are very at home in small streams and I could seem them utilizing very shallow very fast moving water to colonized new homes. 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