Hybrid Striped Bass
Hybrid Striped Bass are raised by the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission by using the sperm of native white bass to fertilize the eggs of a female striped bass.
The hybrid has horizontal stripes, often broken. The first horizontal stripe below the lateral line is distinct and complete to the tail. It has a deep body .
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The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission has stocked hybrids in select
Arkansas waters to provide anglers with trophy-sized gamefish and to
introduce a predator that could feed on large gizzard shad.
Adult gizzard shad in our reservoirs are too large to be eaten by most other
sportfish, with the exception of large predators such as a few catfish and Striped
Bass.
The Hybrid Striped Bass can withstand greater temperature extremes and lower
dissolved oxygen than either of
its parents making it easier to raise in some lakes, reservoirs and Farm
Ponds
In Arkansas, Hybrid Striped Bass commonly reach 8 to 10 pounds.
Fish of 15 or 16 pounds show up often.
| The Tongue Test The back of the tongue of a Hybrid Striped Bass has one distinct tooth patch or two close patches very close together. A white bass tongue has a heart-shaped tooth patch. The back of the tongue of a striped bass has two distinct parallel tooth patches |
Hybrid striped bass have gained widespread acceptance as a
sport fish, particularly in the large reservoirs of the southeast U.S.,
Striped bass and hybrid striped bass, in particular,
are grown in the United States in fish ponds as food fish.
Hybrid striped bass generally refers to a cross between
eggs from a female striped bass (Morone
saxatilis)
and sperm from the male white bass (M. chrysops).
This cross, referred to as the “original cross,”
was first produced in South Carolina in the mid1960s.
The common
name of this cross is the Palmetto Bass.
The cross using white bass female eggs and striped bass male sperm is also produced.
The
common name of this cross is the Sunshine Bass.
Hybrid Striped Bass Physical characteristics
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