It was a pretty slow day. We dodged storms all day, but still managed to snag four. Water temperature was 69 degrees. Fish were caught in 20ft. Marked lots and lots of bait, but no serious feeding going on. Ended up with four short fish. I caught this little squeaker on a live herring. It looked to me like a possible hybrid, but as I understand, there should be no hybrids in Lake Murray. I have run this picture to a biologist at DNR to see what they think. Glad to hear ya’ll’s thoughts.
Matthew K. Mizell
Columbia, SC
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You may be correct, but hybrids do have more broken lines though. Stripers can have broken lines also, just usually not this much. It is also harder to tell on a smaller fish. The lines on a striper are normally more distinct and inline. At least in my experience, and from what I have read and seen. But, that may not be saying a whole lot…
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its a striper - i fish mainly in clarks hill and see a lot of them with broken lines --hybrids tend to have smaller mouths with a downturned head - stripers that size generally have mouths a little smaller than their bodies (almost shaped like a largemouth) - but they are hard to tell apart when they are shorts
I hope this link works. I googled the images of hybrid vs striper. I’ve caught both fish and there really is a noticable difference. I think hyrids fight alot more as well. They are built like tanks.
though the lines are broken it looks like a striper…hybrids have deeper bodies, smaller mouths, and the base of the tail is noticably wider than a striper (more like the white bass parent).
