Posted By: steven1968
Sandy/Hybrid identificatoin - 05/21/16 11:33 PM
I found myself a bit stymied today. We had 4 whites in the cooler, or so I thought. We caught an undersized hybrid and I was showing my father in-law the difference in the tooth patch between hybrid and white. We're trolling so he grabs the booklet and looks up the description and tells me one of the whites we kept is a hybrid. He bases this on the stripes and the fact that one had multiple stripes go all the way back. However, it absolutely had a single tooth patch. The booklet says to consider all characteristics in identifying them, but what the heck is the dominant deciding characteristic. I'd be unhappy getting a fine when I try my best to make the right decision. If we were killing them, I'd just toss it, but things were slow on Tawakoni today and we were scraping for a meal.