J Percy Priest

[fisher01]

Was able to do some bank fishing yesterday afternoon from 4-5 PM.
Tried one of my crappie spots first but didn't catch anything. Next I decided to walk to an area where I usually catch yellow stripe and a school of them was there. Ended up keeping 13, fishing was great for about 30 minutes and then they moved away. Caught them all on a 1/8 oz black/chartreuse jig.

[tsuggs]

thats gud eatn

[blink]

That looks like fun.
Are those hybrids, or yellow bass?
i read that here in TN people call hybrids stripe.

[fisher01]

There all yellow bass. The flash on the camera lightened them up in the picture.

[MNfisher]

I have never eaten yellow bass, I should try them sometime! Nice catch! Bet it was a blast!

[fisher01]

I used to throw them back. A few years ago, I decided to give them a try and they are excellent to eat.

[jad2t]

They taste the same as a white bass and I almost never throw one of those back! Usually the yellows I find are too small to want to fillet but if I happen to catch a larger one, in the cooler it goes.

[bigbird]

Blink- Hybrids and Stripe (rockfish) are two different fish. Supposedly Hybrids are not breeders and have a reputation for fighting harder. Hybrids are the offspring of a white bass X stripe bass.

[Alphahawk]

Blink- Hybrids and Stripe (rockfish) are two different fish. Supposedly Hybrids are not breeders and have a reputation for fighting harder. Hybrids are the offspring of a white bass X stripe bass.

Below a lot of dams White Bass are called Stripes. If you are below Pickwick you can tell who are locals and who aren't. A rockfish is a Striper....a White Bass is, and has been for the past 65 plus years been called "Stripes" or Stripe.


Regards

[Alphahawk]

Was able to do some bank fishing yesterday afternoon from 4-5 PM.
Tried one of my crappie spots first but didn't catch anything. Next I decided to walk to an area where I usually catch yellow stripe and a school of them was there. Ended up keeping 13, fishing was great for about 30 minutes and then they moved away. Caught them all on a 1/8 oz black/chartreuse jig.

Those are some nice size Yellow Bass!


Regards

[blink]

Blink- Hybrids and Stripe (rockfish) are two different fish. Supposedly Hybrids are not breeders and have a reputation for fighting harder. Hybrids are the offspring of a white bass X stripe bass.

I pulled the info from the TWRA website.
Says some TN people call Hybrids Stripe.

In North GA we call a sterile White Bass / Striped Bass Hybrid a Hybrid.
We call Striped Bass Stripers or Rockfish.

There are lots of Hybrids in North GA. Fun to catch when you get up on a school.

[bigbird]

I think newbies mix the names up. People who catch them pretty much know. We have rockfish, but I don't think we have hybrids in Old Hickory. My buddy caught a 31 lb. a few years ago. We catch some 10-15lb. I want to catch some top water!

[bfish]

They taste the same as a white bass and I almost never throw one of those back! Usually the yellows I find are too small to want to fillet.... I actually think the yellows taste better (slightly) than white bass. Small yellows I leave whole, like one would do with a perch.

[tkwalker]

I think newbies mix the names up. People who catch them pretty much know. We have rockfish, but I don't think we have hybrids in Old Hickory. My buddy caught a 31 lb. a few years ago. We catch some 10-15lb. I want to catch some top water!

Bigbird is correct ... Old Hickory was never stocked with hybrids ... Those that are there have snuck through the lock from Cheatham which was stocked ... They do not reproduce ... I think Alphahawk hit it dead on with the misconceptions or for a better word terminology of the species ... and most of this is colloquial terminology ...

Lets start with the Boss:

(1) The Temperate (which means True) Bass. is the Striped Bass,(Striper/Rockfish ... also most may not know it has 4 olfactory glands ..it can smell better than a cat fish) This is a ocean Fish that was introduced to land Locked lakes by accident in Lake Moultre and Santee Cooper in South Carolina in the 50's ... Which I fished as a kid with my Dad... Landlock record is 68 pounds (may have been beaten since my last data check) Tennessee state Record which is 65 pounds 6 Oz's caught by my competitor Ralph Dallas ... my best was 62 pounds 2 oz's :o

(2) .. White Bass (stripe/Striped Bass/Sand Bass/Silver Bass) State Record ... 5 pounds 10 OZ..

(3) Yellow Bass Stripe ... State Record 2 pounds 9 Oz's ...

(4)Hybrid (Cherokee Bass, Introduced in this lake is where it got it's name) also called Hybrid/Wiper/Whiterock/sunshine bass ... State Record 23 pounds 3 oz.

These Fish can not reproduce ... pretty much like the Stripers, but 5% do reproduce a year, where a Hybrid cannot ... reason why ...

The hybrid is derived by the sperm of a Male Stripe (white bass max size 5 pounds 10oz ) that fertilizes a Female Egg Striper/Rockfish .. State record 65 plus pounds ... ... Then we have the hybrid max state record to date is 23 pounds 3 oz ...

My experience with the hybrids which is different from the Stripers/Rocks ... Hybrids are like a 23 pound Smallmouth on Lance Armstrongs Steriods !!!

In my days of guiding I have caught a couple of strange genetic altered stripers and hybrids ... Fish missing fins that never developed, Stripers that were of Rock fish size but was proportional to Hybrids also missing part of their anatomy ... After working with TWRA it was discoverd that breeding vats were not properly cleaned between fertilizations and some altered gentics was exposed to other striper species ...

For a fish guide it is located under a sticky at the top of the Forum Page as "TWRA ANGLER GUIDE" http://www.tn.gov/twra/pdfs/anglersguide.pdf ..

Hope this helps .... <'TK>< :)

[blink]

Thanks for the clarification yall!

[bigbird]

TK,
I've seen genetically mutated trout (1 missing a pectoral fin and 1 that looked as if the mid 1/3 was removed) on the Caney or Obey before. I wonder if their breeding tanks were not cleaned out properly either?

[tkwalker]

TK,
I've seen genetically mutated trout (1 missing a pectoral fin and 1 that looked as if the mid 1/3 was removed) on the Caney or Obey before. I wonder if their breeding tanks were not cleaned out properly either?

From talking to some TWRA Bio folks this is usually what causes this ... <'TK>< :)