04-20-2006, 02:19 PM
For Hybrid striped bass, there are many techniques that will work.
Trolling: drag rapalas, cranks, spoons, spinners in your favorite patterns. That will depend on the water clarity, temp and depth.
Casting: you can cast the same things you use for other species of bass and have success. When they boil, use topwater hardbaits in the size and color of the current forage they are feedinging on. These fish, like stripers, tend to roam open water, but they will also display the preferences of white bass and hang out in the rocks or near other structure at certain times of the year(like spring)as well. In some areas, casting jigs and working them horizontally works well. Try white grub or silvery shad looking plastics.
If you can legally, using baits like live/dead shad can work when other things won't.
Good luck - Wipers/hybrids are an exciting fish to catch !
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Trolling: drag rapalas, cranks, spoons, spinners in your favorite patterns. That will depend on the water clarity, temp and depth.
Casting: you can cast the same things you use for other species of bass and have success. When they boil, use topwater hardbaits in the size and color of the current forage they are feedinging on. These fish, like stripers, tend to roam open water, but they will also display the preferences of white bass and hang out in the rocks or near other structure at certain times of the year(like spring)as well. In some areas, casting jigs and working them horizontally works well. Try white grub or silvery shad looking plastics.
If you can legally, using baits like live/dead shad can work when other things won't.
Good luck - Wipers/hybrids are an exciting fish to catch !
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