On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:30:04 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:28:43 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:


Which ones? Lots of different "stripers."
There's a "striper" here in the lakes of Illinois that some call white
bass. Caught a lot of them, but they don't bet much bigger than a
nice crappie.

They are a white bass/striper hybrid and generally grow up to double
the size of a good crappie - generally in the 1/2 to 3/4 pound range.
Very durable fish and when younger, prolific breeders which makes them
also a feed stock for other types of game fish.

Probably the ones I fished for were stunted. The lakes I grew up
fishing went to hell with speedboats - the reason I quit fishing up
here.

Then I've heard of hybrids in the impoundments out west that are
supposed to be good fighters, and get pretty big.

Those are salt water transplants and are genetically identical to salt
water stripers. Depending on the size of the impoundment, they can
get as big as salt water stripers given proper forage and cool water.

Ocean stripers too. I'm confused now.

Well, you aren't now. :)

What?

--Vic