Record Hybrid

[96 CHAMP]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announces that Cesar Rodriguez of Carthage is now the state record-holder for hybrid striped bass after catching a 21-pound, 11-ounce fish at Lake of the Ozarks May 19. Rodriguez used the pole-and-line method.

Though the fish breaks Missouri’s previous hybrid striped bass record of a 20-pound, 8-ounce fish, set in 1986 at the Lake of the Ozarks, Rodriguez wasn’t that surprised when he reeled in the bass.

“It was just a normal day out fishing,” Rodriguez said. “Last year I caught a 24-pound hybrid in Oklahoma, but I couldn’t find a game warden to confirm it. So, this catch didn’t come as a surprise that it was a record-breaker.”

The fish’s weight was verified on a certified scale at MDC’s Roaring River Hatchery in Cassville. The hybrid striped bass is the sixth state-record fish caught this year.

Rodriguez mounted his prize fish, and said he is planning to catch another that will top his even-larger Oklahoma catch.

Missouri state-record fish are recognized in two categories: pole-and-line and alternative methods. Alternative methods include: throwlines, trotlines, limb lines, bank lines, jug lines, spearfishing, snagging, snaring, gigging, grabbing, archery, and atlatl. For more information on state-record fish, visit the MDC website at https://short.mdc.mo.gov/Zxr.

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• Nature Notes

[fishinwrench]

CP Rod is a customer of mine.  Congrats to him!  👍

[Flysmallie]

Lives in Carthage.

Caught the fish at LOZ

Verified in Cassville???

 

[fishinwrench]

3 minutes ago, Flysmallie said:

Lives in Carthage.

Caught the fish at LOZ

Verified in Cassville???

 

His family has a place here, he catches alot of big hybrids.  

[dnj21]

Catching a 24# last year in OK then this one- you get a sneaking suspicion this guy may know what he is doing!!   Good stuff!

I get excited when I catch one a third that size....

[cedarglenguy]

Has anything been reported as to where he caught it, and what was he using?  

[MoCarp]

He caught it below the dam at Truman...caught a Oklahoma record too but couldn’t get an agent to verify..,,this time he knew where... according to my friend Adam, won’t be his last record

[nomolites]

That’s a big’n, fo sho.  In a few years we will have some stripers going well above that number...I have been releasing all I catch in anticipation!

Mike

[Yakalong]

congrats to him, that would be great to latch into!