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Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 5:14 pm: | 
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Do you have any of these out there in California. It’s a hybrid striped bass, this one was caught last month, it was 36 inches long, weighted 23 pounds. When they dammed the Little Red River that’s just down in the valley below this mountain I live on back in the early 1960s, it made a deep cold water lake that’s about 30 miles long and about 40,000 acres. The dam is about 30 miles from where I live, but the lake backed up just down in the valley below us. The Game & Fish started stocking some different species of fish including these hybrid stripers. They get good sized, run in schools and are fun to catch, although not much good to eat. When those schools start breaking the water late in the afternoon chasing shad, you can chunk a silver spoon bait into the school and the fun is on. They have striped bass here also, they really get big. Don’t know how big these hybrids get, but haven’t seen any much bigger than this one out of this lake. |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 7:36 pm: |
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Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 8:10 pm: |
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WHOOOOO , That is some kind of fish, I do not catch them that big unless Alsworld buys me one, look at that fish, beautiful catch.
About the Hybirds, know I don"t think so, unless they are like our Squaw fish, fun to catch but all bone, they eat all the trout eggs. |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 9:15 pm: |
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These are a cross between the white bass and striped bass. Most people eat'em, they're not too bad, lots of meat on the big thick jokers. White meat except for a dark strip down their sides. The ones about 3 to 5 pounds are best. They are fighters, they dive deep when you hook'em. Carp, buffalo and drum are the boney fish we have, but the right kind of buffalo are pretty good eating if you know how to clean'em and cut'em up. Crappie and walleyes are my favorite, well, and catfish, and, big old redear bream ain't too bad either. ha, I just like fish. |
Alsworld
| | Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 9:25 pm: |
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Beautiful fish! I know a few lakes around where my brother lives in Texas they stock the hybrid bass. I have never caught one, but I understand they get very large. Man that is one nice fish Scrap.
They are deep for sure in the warmer Texas lakes.
Alsworld |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2003 - 12:12 pm: |
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This is a deep lake here, some of it is over 100 feet. The biggest fish I have caught on a rod and reel out of this lake was a carp weighing over 28 lbs. My son has caught 2 largemouth bass that weighed over 10 pounds each, that's big for this country, I know Florida has much larger ones. But the biggest fish he has caught out of this lake was a 42 pound flathead catfish on a trotline. He said he almost swamped the boat landing him. We had a big fish fry off that big boy. I've got some pics of it somewhere.
I think it's been broken in the last few years, but the previous world record freshwater walleye was caught out of this lake in 1982, weighed over 22 pounds.
And in 1992, the world record brown trout was caught right below the dam of this lake on the Little Red River, it weighed over 40 pounds. The government has a hatchery there below the dam and stock the river with rainbow and brown trout regularly. Man I sound like the chamber of commerce, huh. scrapiron |
Crafter
| | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2003 - 12:31 pm: |
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Yep we used to catch those when I lived in okla, texas, sandbass-white bass. They will breed with a largemouth bass also what we called a hybred had a strip then halfway it would change to the stripe. I love to catch big cats thats my favorite. Living close to the snake river is sure makes fishing good! |
Znut
| | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2003 - 12:42 pm: |
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That is really a nice hybrid! That's bigger than any I've ever seen. Seen some big stripers but never a hybrid that big!
Since you guys don't like to eat them ship them to me! edj682001@yahoo.com for shipping address! |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2003 - 5:43 pm: |
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Went to the lake today, it was really slow , but it was very pretty, did get to talk on my radio for a while , while three bears were checking out my tackel box. |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 10:08 am: |
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Hey Karatebutcher, now don't be ashamed of your fish just because I posted that old big one. hehe, you know how fish stories are. Those bears sound interesting, we have a few here now, they have been stocked by the game and fish, all the originals were killed out long ago. I'll be listening for you today on 27.385, man it was rolling yesterday, I heard California and Maine at the same time. I got another 'fish' story, yesterday I was cleaning up my old Ranger radios, had one of them on and hooked to the antenna, had the beam west and was on 27.525 lsb, heard a mobile in california calling cq dx, he wasn't getting any answers, so I picked up the mike and talked to him, about the time we signed off, happended to notice my wattmeter was not moving, it was on the 200 watt scale, I put it on the 20 watt scale, and I was doing less than 1 watt, the mike gain was all the way down, I had to talk loud to even get it up to 1 watt. Now I've been around this stuff a long time, but don't remember talking across country before with 1 watt, and to a mobile at that, but I've always thought when skip conditions are just right, its like talking to someone a block or so away. |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 10:55 am: |
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Scrapiron possibly you were talking with just modulation, I get a lot of guys from the East coast with no signal, just modulation.
We have Bears here all the time, I like to fish where there are know people and it is just me and the Bears and Deer, most of the time the bears will lay down about 10 feet from me and I talk to them, I have had a lot of them in the last 6 years. |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 11:02 am: |
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My wife had a friend here last year and she wanted me to take her friends husband fishing, well I don"t get along with him at all, he is 78 years old and talks all day, finally I took him, yes you are right, I took him to bear country, had him sit under this 6 foot rise on the bank, I waited a while, I asked him , do you like Bears he said they don"t bother him, I said look above you, he ran to the car, I clapped the bear away, no more problems with him. |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 1:11 pm: |
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You bad Karate, hehe, setting that old guy up with the bear. Funny story, and I know how it is to get those self invited guests on fishing trips. I fished alone most of the time, but have had a few invite themselves, real bummer. |
Tech808
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 1:18 pm: |
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Scrapiron63,
From the Pictures he sent to Alsworld and myself he does kinda look like a Bear, it was probably his Twin brother.
Shame on you Karate for scaring that poor 78 year old guy.
Lon |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 4:48 pm: |
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Oh my, well he had it coming, really did, Oh so now I look like a bear well Yaba Daba Doo, to you, I figured First Sergent would be all over my case. No skip at all today, nothing, I will listen for you guys tomorrow on 27115, channel 13 LSB . |
Tech808
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 7:37 pm: |
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Karatebutcher,
Nope, the First thing she said is well at least he does not look like a Jarhead!
Kattracker sent a picture of himself and the first thing she said was he must be a Jarhead too. And he looks like you with the Flattop.
Oh Well!
The Old Jarhead signing off! |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 8:14 pm: |
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Lon I was a seven year Destroyer Sailor |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 8:16 pm: |
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Lon there is nothing meaner in the world than a boot marine just out of boot camp. And they earn it. |
Znut
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 12:46 pm: |
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Okay, my freezer is cleaned out to make room for the fish Kattracker and Scrapiron are going to send my way! |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 1:40 pm: |
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I have one on the back porch, I mail it tomorrow or Sat, the cats are playing with it right now. |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 4:32 pm: |
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Ok Znut, I'll send you a big hybrid by UPS land, it should be ok in this cool weather, scales will come off easier after a few days aging. lol |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 7:25 pm: |
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The Mi. DNR planted some sterile salmon in Lake Michigan 12 years ago,they run with the normal salmon but they do not die as soon.The DNR believe they'll live 30 years,and just keep growing till they die.One was caught off muskegon shoreline 5 years ago it weighed 65 lbs.,only one caught that they know of,many suspects though,due to evidence of shattered fishing rods.The DNR estimate the average size of the so called supersalmon right now should be between 100 and 125 lbs.it is said they will grow to between 165 and 200 lbs.roughly the size of ocean run king salmon.Man this could feed a family of four for a while.Bigbob |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 8:35 pm: |
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Very interesting, thanks BigBob, I really enjoyed reading that, I am a freak on True Facts like that, and True or False, especially Greek ,Egyptian or Indian History |
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