I was crusing another web site and found this post. I didnt even know we had these kind of bass in the great lakes region. I bet the fight was awsome.
http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/051706/loc_bigfish001.shtml
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Sweet...Learn something new every day.
That?s wild!
I just learned these fish exists about two weeks ago. My question is this;
Is it native or dumped here? And why haven?t we seen these till now and a record is the first? Or have others caught them and we just haven?t heard about it till now?
I've never seen one or heard of one being caught. Our MDNR says they think it is coming from 'an Eastern Ohio river where they have been planted' which is crazy - to introduce a new species that is not natural into an area that gives it access to the entire Great Lakes!!! Bad enough with all the exotics that got here by 'accident.'
I have to find out more. They are hard fighters and voracious eaters.
Our MDNR has looked at striped bass and I think even wipers in the past, but have never implemented anything. I don't think the ideas ever got real far other than sportman's groups pushing for them at times.
Check here:
http://www.michigandnr.com/fish/MasterAngler.asp
There are three Hybrid White Bass listed in the State Records...
they are stocked. hybrid between white bass (small) and stripers (big) ;)
they have some big ones down in indiana for those of you who fish on schafer/freeman....
head down below oakdale dam. they catch a few 15-20lbers there a year.
Yes, I was in the lower Detroit River and caught what I thought was a 5lb white, but I had noticed the horizontal lines were broken, and then determined that it was indeed a hybrid. This was last year 2005, my partner and I caught 3 or 4 more after the first one, but not that big.
thats quite a fish - huge!! bet that was fun to bring in.
makes you wonder what else swims in our lakes & rivers.
According to the article that the link took me too, these fish are sterile.
They are supposed to be sterile because of the cross-breeding. That is one reason why agencies feel a little safer in planting them.