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You need to first confirm that you are actually seeing feeding activity. There are a lot of carp, gar, etc that will break the surface that people confuse as feeding. When hybrids blitz on the surface it is usually for small windows of time. If they are whites and hybrids they will hit almost anything that moves. They will be looking up so don't use diving crankbaits. Use a rattle trap or paddle tail on a 1/2-3/4oz jighead and retrieve fast as soon as it hits the water. Most people use Zara super spooks in bone color when they are busting on top. The perfect set up down there is a 10ft medium heavy spinning rod with 20lb braid. You can use a 18-24in of 20lb mono for a leader to tie your lure to. The 10ft rod is strictly for casting distance. Best times for hybrids are sunrise and sunset and I would just throw the spook even if you don't see them surfacing.

Caught this on upper Bull Shoals while walleye fishing. What causes this? My guess is it's leftover from a fungal infection?

There are a bunch of hybrids at kk Island currently. Look for the cold front to fire them up and bust on top. Sunrise and sunset

No, rain water and run off control that. Rain isn't steady or necessarily cold enough to keep creek flows and temps consistent enough for a healthy, naturally occurring spawn ......

Crappie are on the banks! Find a cove and fish the banks! Any color seems to work, but i would recommend something with a little chartreuse mixed in. Bite turns on an hour before dark, but they are biting all day. They just move to 6-8 ft during the day. 1-3ft right off tthe bank at dark. Tons of limits being caught. Paddlefish will be up in Osceola. Drag treble hooks for them. Hybrids are scattered and not grouped up yet, so i would recommend trolling flicker shad on humps and rocky points.

I have seen those as well on my graph. Very isolated and not many. I think they are Crappie or yellow perch. I got into a school of yellow perch back in November and caught 14 using minnows.

You passed the test! Me and Cody are really good friends and fish together. I already know where you guys were fishing. I was just doin some virtual fishing......... and he is not lying. We have had boats come over and fish within 6 feet of us when we are on hybrids.

What area did you catch the hybrids?

Trout are a stocked non native commodity. I do believe in conservation and taking care of a fishery, but you and many others on this forum go above and beyond that with your fishing at taneycomo. Don't be discouraged. Think of all the ones you have released successfully and keep on fishing. The fish i fish for(see pics for reference) have a much higher mortality rate than yours, but i still keep some to eat and share with friends knowing they will be replenished.

Very broad, but will catch you fish. Blue cats, drift cut shad on 10-15ft ish flats Crappie will be in trees and bluffs probably 8-10ft ish down Hybrids, always moving but look for them busting top water at sunrise and sunset and throw a spook. If you know what they like on the graph you can try bouncing spoons in 10-15ft of water once you find them, but live shad is the best way to catch them in this heat. They will likely be down lake on points and humps that top out around 10-15ft. Can also throw paddle tails with 1/2 oz heads. Any color works as long as it's white or chartreuse, lol

I am following you now. I cannot comment to that as i have never caught one like that, but am very interested in the topic. Please try and snap a photo next time you catch one. I agree with you that the stocked hybrids are probably not completely sterile like they say and have read a study that states there is some probability that there is some very limited reproduction by them. I also left out the part about on the particular scouting mission in the Gravois when i caught the pictured fish, i may have wandered to the very back where i locked eyes with an older silver haired man in a green metal boat with a fly rod fishing the small hump and channel that goes under the small bridge........

This was the same trip once i located the hybrids. Caught several but they were substantially smaller than what i find in Truman, which surprised me.

Now you can put the coffee on. Incorrect, hybrids have a split tongue patch same as striped bass and they have been stocked recently. Mdc began stocking "leftover" stripers in LOZ when they finished their Bull Shoals stockings each year. This would have began in 2013. People catch a couple every year up at Truman dam during the spring run. There are some 20+lbers caught, very rarely albeit, in haha tonka usually in the middle of winter. I caught several "stockers" like the one pictured last summer in the Gravois while looking for hybrids.

Hah! Well you would have been correct except I read wrench's post wrong. After reading his first post he is correct. The two pictured in his 1st post are hybrids. The two fish pictured in the post i quoted are pure striped bass.

Incorrect. Those are both stocked pure striped bass. Look at the depth in relation to their length.

@Phil Lilley what water temps are you seeing after these hot days? Any change?

@Phil Lilley It was nice meeting you as well. I only found two 30lb drum, a walleye and 5 big white sows. The whites showed up right at dark where you were fishing. There is TON of shad up there right now so it shouldn't be long. Took my mother back up north yesterday after the forecast changed and found them 100 yards from where I left them on Wednesday. Tight lines!

Phil "The Bush Ninja" Lilley doing work against the ancient dark forces of green..... Good still does exist in this world, albeit in small glimpses it seems anymore, but any is better than none. Awesome work sir!

Generally once the water temps reach 80 and above, you might as well keep them. They usually die from over exhaustion and lack of oxygen at those temps. Lack of oxygen more so. This is why temperate species are usually the first to die in a fish kill below a dam when the core screws up the oxygen levels and why they don't survive long in a livewell. I release them regularly below that temp and they survive as far as i know. (I don't sit there for 2 days and look for floaters, but have friends that guide for them and fish the same spots daily without seeing any dead or floating.) Like mentioned, always good to have a cooler with ice if one doesn't swim off or if you are planning on keeping any. They are extremely good to eat and i prefer them over anything including all the walleye i catch and give away.

Somebody couldn't sleep and was cranky.......

It's definitely a fat striper. I've caught several stripers with broken lines on Bull Shoals.

Exactly like Redfish on the half shell. It turns out amazing!

My personal favorite is to leave the skin and scales on the meat. Put on grill scales and skin side down. Melt butter and mix in Sriracha to personal heat preference and baste while on the grill and sprinkle any desired seasoning. Let cook until finished. Never flip. Almost all the red meat stays with the skin and what doesn't isn't very fishy tasting. It peels right off the skin. Very delicious and agree, it is the best tasting fish in our lakes.

Yes, this is the hwy 7 bridge area. They started at 5pm and continued until 8.30pm when we left to watch fireworks.

Go to mile long Bridge area. They were surfacing for over 2 hours Friday night as far as you could see. Thousands of fish. Couldn't miss it.