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mding38926 · Posted: Sep 22 2005 Post subject:

Damn Steve-O.........now that looks like some fine fishing........Guess I can give up my favorite hole....it is on south sandy creek in NY just off 3 and have caught 25 25 pound king salmon in a morning. Unlike the Salmon River there is alot less pressure.
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Steve-O · Posted: Sep 22 2005 Post subject:

Sand bass. It was a good day. Started culling at 9am. Just kept the really big ones. That stringer was very heavy. I did not hold it up too long.

Used to play the sticks, but have other hobbies now. Still play once a year or so.
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roxy · Posted: Sep 22 2005 Post subject:

Never head of sand bass but then again I aint from texas.
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Steve-O · Posted: Sep 23 2005 Post subject:

Sand bass=White bass. They are related to Stripers...so closely that they are cross bred and produce what we call "Hybrid Stipers".
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mding38926 · Posted: Sep 23 2005 Post subject:

OK...wondered on the sand bass.........we get a good number of hybrid stripers here in VA that run the Potomac river.
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Smokin' Chew Chew · Posted: Sep 23 2005 Post subject: Sandies

Steve, are you sure those ain't shad? Our sandbass are about 3.5 to 4 lbs and striped. They spew stuff all over your boat and we drop kick em' back into the lake. When we get into them 3 hundred is not unresonable. They are fun for awhile but then they become a pain. They spew on you, shake a hook into you, fin you, or cut you with their gill plates. They also taste worse than catfish. I call em' paracites in my lakes.
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Steve-O · Posted: Sep 23 2005 Post subject:

Not shad. Haven't had a sandbass spew. Most real fishermen don't care for them but they are fun for kids and folks that prefer catching over fishing. That said, they are still fun to catch. If you cook them right, they are just fine. I prefer Crappie or blue Cats, but sometimes I just like to go out and catch a hundred or so.

Speaking of Blue Cats....

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roxy · Posted: Sep 23 2005 Post subject:

I guess that catfish is the salmon of the south, dont think they grow that big up here.
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Steve-O · Posted: Sep 23 2005 Post subject:

We don't eat them that big. Anything over 10 lbs get's tossed back. They sure are fun to catch though. I'll be catching a bunch of 5-10 pounders this winter. The dorsal slab on a 10 pounder is perfect size and thickness for smoking.

Did we hijack this thread or what???
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bigabyte · Posted: Sep 24 2005 Post subject:

That's a keeper! Why would you throw back anything over 10 pounds? Is it out of respect or something? Just curious. We can catch some really big channel cats down in these parts without even really trying, especially near all the dams! Laughing

The big ones sure do make for lots of meat!
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Steve-O · Posted: Sep 24 2005 Post subject:

Not all fishermen throw them back, but most of us do. Three reasons I throw big'uns back.

1) Any blue over 10 lbs is sexually mature. They mature later than most so if you kill the big ones, you impact the numbers of smaller ones.
2) Smaller ones are better eating.
3) If it's 10 lbs, it's at least 5 years old and I don't want to eat anything that has been feeding on the bottom of a lake for that long. Shocked

I always carry a camera. Just in case I catch a big one, I can prove it. Now if I caught the lake record, it might make a trip to the scales with me. But I'd release it after I weighed it. And before you say "I'd have it mounted", the current lake record is 68 lbs. Where are you going to put a fish as big as a 7th grader?
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