Hybrids
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TobyScreams
Twelve Pointer
Can’t say anything about specific spots but I target them with chicken livers or live shad on bottoms right now. The rest of the year drifting points is my strategy. Artificial is hit and miss for me unless I’m in them thick. Then I either catch em on a fluke (the lure) or spoons like kastmaster or cleo, or ratltrap. I like shiny lures for all the morone species.
Just about every one I have caught has been bycatch. I have caught them on about everything imaginable.
LIZZRD
Eight Pointer
great fighters, wait till you get one 5-10 lbs. ! not sure if they are that big on Hyco though. ?
Duckmauler dhc
Old Mossy Horns
They’re getting there
cloningerba
Old Mossy Horns
Yeah, I usually wait til the spring and drift points with live bait. I also have caught a few on small buck tails and swim baits. You catch one 3-6lbs and you better hold on!
Winnie 70
Ten Pointer
I have caught them up at Buckhorn in Chatham Co. at the dam....in the Spring in early April we target them with Ratltraps and other fast moving baits....5 to 9 lb range. They will make runs in that fast water and you just hold on. Also fish the dam behind Jordan Lake caught some big ones up there .
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todobien
Eight Pointer
Fish for them like striped bass or white bass. Look for schools near bait along points and channel edges.
Mack in N.C.
Old Mossy Horns
CHICKEN LIVERS on bottom will catch em but I like rat l baits and topwaters.
30/06
Old Mossy Horns
Drowned a lot of chicken livers and never hooked a hybrid on em, maybe catfish beat em to the bait.
Mack in N.C.
Old Mossy Horns
back in the day that was the go to bait at Jordan. find a hump and fish chicken livers on a C rig. all kinds of video on YT catching them on liver.
kilerhamilton
Old Mossy Horns
Troll small crank baits around at 3mph
This time of year I would be trolling a little deeper.
This time of year I would be trolling a little deeper.
They can be suckers for tailspinners, blade baits, and Hopkins spoons fished deep this time of year. Find the shad along channels in Fall & Winter and you'll find Hybrids/White Bass.
I've caught a bunch in summer (Jul.-Aug.) as well when they're herding shad shallow up on long points near deep water right before dark. Fishing can be great immediately after a thunderstorm. They will flat out eat the paint off a 1/4 to 1/8 oz. chrome/black or blue back RattleTrap. Your trap will look 10 years old after one trip when they're turned on.
Jim
I've caught a bunch in summer (Jul.-Aug.) as well when they're herding shad shallow up on long points near deep water right before dark. Fishing can be great immediately after a thunderstorm. They will flat out eat the paint off a 1/4 to 1/8 oz. chrome/black or blue back RattleTrap. Your trap will look 10 years old after one trip when they're turned on.
Jim
oldest school
Old Mossy Horns
They eat anything that passes by them. live dead artificial. they dont care.
They make false spawning runs if the impoundment they are in has a suitable inflow.
Jordan was tremendous up the haw back when.
AS for targeting them you gotta find them;
If you had FFS now would be great fishing.
On hyco I wonder which side of the lake they want to be in now- cold or warm. IDK.
Good Luck they are a ton of fun to catch.
They make false spawning runs if the impoundment they are in has a suitable inflow.
Jordan was tremendous up the haw back when.
AS for targeting them you gotta find them;
If you had FFS now would be great fishing.
On hyco I wonder which side of the lake they want to be in now- cold or warm. IDK.
Good Luck they are a ton of fun to catch.
Mack in N.C.
Old Mossy Horns
IDK either but would imagine warm. I know the shad stack up pretty thick near the discharge so I would go where the shad are.
I used to fish Hyco a lot in the 70's and early 80's. back then we could drive through the gate and almost park at the discharge. fised it many times in the dead of winter. they cut that out a long time ago.
wait till you snag one almost 14lbs
30/06
Old Mossy Horns
Got a while before any 14 lb fish will be showing up, know they grow fast but they’ve only been in there for 4 years I believe, that is some of the challenge, they don’t reproduce so there is a limited number of them in there. Hopefully they’ll keep stocking em.
Mack in N.C.
Old Mossy Horns
well them not reproducing is a fallacy. it has been proven that 1/2 of 1 percent can reproduce so 1 out of 200 can. small but not 0 percent .
Its is enough that Virginia will not stock any into any body that makes it to the atlantic. this also is the reason NC stopped stocking them like they did in the 80's and early 90's. they have a strong desire tendacy whatever you want to call it to go downstream and through or over dams. they end up with full blooded stripers the more east they get and that 1 out of 200 causes genetic problems.
So, A hybrid spawning with a striper is like a 1 in 200 chance .
In a lake like hyco them reproducing is near zero but more like 1 in 200,000 chance. A 1 in 200 fish has to meet another 1 in 200 fish. The problem with them is they go over the dam and then the next dam and then you have them down in the lower Roanoke with full blooded stripers. Yes they have been documenting going through that many dams.
anyway , New jersey wont stock them like Virginia as to tthe .5 percent that can with full blooded stripers.
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Mack in N.C.
Old Mossy Horns
During the 80's and early 90's I chased them HARD. I love to catch them . But imho they should not be stocked in NC just like Virginia does.
too much chance (yes even at .5 percent) of genetic impurity happening .
That second one is 5 oz shy of 14. The 1st one is a normal BIG un from the hey day of Jordan Dam during its peak. Too overfished now for everything.
Damn , I was rockin that Pink shirt.
too much chance (yes even at .5 percent) of genetic impurity happening .
That second one is 5 oz shy of 14. The 1st one is a normal BIG un from the hey day of Jordan Dam during its peak. Too overfished now for everything.
Damn , I was rockin that Pink shirt.