VERY interesting news from the fisheries in Texas

[Ketchn]

Was out trying a spot that wasn't all that great for crappie for a few minutes yesterday .
this and that was biting ,with a few small crappie in the mix .
got a nice thump and set the hook and the fight got going and up came a ......
not exactly sure ?
looked at first glance to be a for this area a huge yellow bass in the extra old age range .
a real battled scared veteran with more than one healed over cormorant bite on it .
the more I looked the more I thought maybe a hybridized white to a yellow ?
took 2 pictures and pitched it back in ,called the fisheries folks I know and asked 50 questions or possibly more .....
the final take on it was this , without actually examining the DNA on the fish there was no actual way to tell for sure if it was pure yellow bass or a hybridized one .
the things on it that would identify it as a yellow were all there , but it just had a few things that didn't look quite right , the lines were broken lots more than a straight run yellow bass and not near as magic marker looking dark , it also seemed to have more of a white bass build on it as well .
the good news is this about that , it got set free to go on with it's life , so it could just be another fish story on the internet .....
KABOOM is the word

[SuperDave336]

Hmmm…. Interesting.

[DockShootinJack]

That is a good sized one.

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Big ole bass for sure.

[Ketchn]

Hmmm…. Interesting.

I thunk so as well , said there was no way to be sure from outward appearances , told me a few things I didn't know to look for and those things indicated yellow bass as well , but in the end it didn't look to be a pure run fish species.
also told me about some testing on actual state stocked hybrid stripers and how they were back to doing studies on which way to cross them. I said I thought that was decided long ago on the paradise bass and etc. etc. and he said this about that ....
we are currently revaluating those studies to make sure that what was fact back then is still in fact ,factual ....

[Ketchn]

Big ole bass for sure.

a water body record if it was just a yellow bass , but the world will never know for sure now that it swam on.....

[Redge]

Looks like an old timer


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[Ketchn]

Looks like an old timer


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was beat up before and healed over well, looked like a true old time warrior no doubt and took drag nicely when I set the hook
thought oh man this is a stupid big ole slab for sure when I set the hook on the thump

[Ketchn]

btw , on a side note I asked the fisheries if they could go one more round on the ole paradise bass ....
sure would like to hold a banana yellow striper just one time, just for grins ....

[catchNgrease]

Thing looks like it's got a crappie face

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