Anybody caught one of these???

[fishon1219]

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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[Roy Randolph]

Dead Link

[gofish]

http://www.macombdaily.com/

[Cheetam]

Sweet...Learn something new every day.

[Roy Randolph]

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?

[djkimmel]

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.

[Cheetam]

Check here:

http://www.michigandnr.com/fish/MasterAngler.asp

There are three Hybrid White Bass listed in the State Records...

[thedude]

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.

[5alive]

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.

[bosshawg]

thats quite a fish - huge!! bet that was fun to bring in.
makes you wonder what else swims in our lakes & rivers.

[fiker]

According to the article that the link took me too, these fish are sterile. 

[djkimmel]

They are supposed to be sterile because of the cross-breeding. That is one reason why agencies feel a little safer in planting them.