@fishin'aholic2.....yes exactly! Thank you. I was afraid I had traveled into a third dimension here and going crazy.

Not trying to argue with you at all capnkirk, just wanna state my opinion.

I understand completely that you think they should have released them, but i highly doubt if you have someone fishing for fish to keep, that they would have threw back a giant hybrid. They're legal fish and will die, they can't respawn. So saying they SHOULD throw them back for others to catch is kinda bashing them for something i would do everyday of the week.

# Hybridlivesmatter

that made me smile

Lol Can we call them blended? That seems to be the new thing these days...

Hybrids have a relatively short lifespan. By the time they've hit 22-24 inches, they probably don't have many more years left.

They're also stocked purely as a put and take fishery. While they're not 100% sterile, they have a low success rate in spawning, so they're not very likely to reproduce.

I won't often keep a barely legal hybrid anymore, but will usually keep 22" and bigger till I hit my limit. If someone else wants to keep eighteen inchers, why would I complain about it?

10 out of 30 states with hybrid striped bass have state records over 20 pounds, and another 8 are in the high upper teen range. Based on that information, I am thinking that hybrid striped bass can live for quite a long time and get large in the process.

I don't know how old those fish are. These folks are of the opinion that the fish have lifespans of 3-5 or 5-6 years. But, I could be wrong, as both sources could be wrong.

http://fisheries.tamu.edu/pond-management/species/hybrid-striped-bass/

http://www2.ca.uky.edu/wkrec/StripedBassBiology.pdf

I'm 100% on releasing the hybrids. It's called sharing with others.
100% of the dead fish get no bigger. I have caught hybrid to 27 inches on Tawakoni and there is no comparison to the fight of a 20 incher.

These CC hybrids may not be spawning, but they have to be reproducing with the sand bass/yellow bass Barr fish,for many years we have been catching a cross breed hybrid/yellow/sand bass a beautiful fish that unlike a soft sand bass is rough and tough

Hybrids are the trophy fish like the green trash fish one can always fill the freezer with sand bass, unless the hybrid are bleeding,turn em loose,many think different but that cool,,big storm about to hit CC ,be safe ft

Those Richardson boys are trouble I tell ya

Yes they are

I believe they have been catching striper and hybrids below the dam at Livingston since the 80's how would they get in the river if they didn't get washed over the dam at Livingston. Just saying.