Caught this at RC this morning. Wasn't sure so I let it go. It weighed 2.25 lbs on our boat scale.

hybrid...
when in doubt look for tooth patches...
no tp, yellow bass
one tp, white bass
two tp, striper
two tp or one tp with fork at either end, hybrid (if it has broken lines)

If it is a white X yellow bass it should have yellowish color on its belly and one tooth patch or no tooth patch.

Good thing you threw it back, it is not worth the risk.

Neither....that's a yellow bass X

Or white bass X yellow

That's a fish that needs to diet.. I agree with Micheal

looks like a yellow.... but never seen one that big.

no way that is a sandy

maybe a hyb/yellow cross some weird way?

+ 1 on the yellow hybrid

Sand bass yellow x

Little fattie is what that is lol

I vote yellow with something mixed in

Can yellow bass accidentally be mixed with stripers in the " hybrid" pool attempt ?

I have seen that before and I think it's a F2. In genetic crossbreeding a F2 is a second generation cross. It is between a half bread and a full bread of one of the parents in this case. It is a known fact that a small prcentage of hybrid striped bass are fertil. If one of these fertil hybrid striped bass and a sand bass happened to reproduce this fish in question could likely be the result. I think it's just a matter of time before we have a new fish roaming our lakes. A "super sandy" I call it. If the F2's can reproduce, and they should be capable. It will happen. On the legal aspect. IT IS A HYBRID! Although a F2 or second generation cross its still a cross a "hybrid" of two different fish. That makes it 3/4 sand bass 1/4 striped bass.

Its a yellow hybrid. Caught several of those about the same size and same odd shape at twok.

ole yeller

The F2 theory is more plausible than a F1 yellow x white bass theory, because the lower two lines of this fish are not broken and very distinctive, while top two lines are broken. In yellow bass, lower two lines are distinctively shown and broken above or right after its anal, wherein white bass lower two lines are very faint...

However the lines of this fish are too distinctive for a F2 white x hybrid, IMHO. a F2 hybrid x striper is theoretically plausible (stripers eat yellow bass, hence its very unlikely for yb to hang around for the party anyway, lol), but since RC was never stocked with stripers, this is not possible.

Since, I couldn't see the yellowish color from the fish belly and the bottom two lines are not broken...I'd say it's a sunshine or palmetto hybrids (white x striped bass), if so this fish should have two tooth patches.