Each year I bring a couple of hybrid striped bass to hand. These fish a cross between striped bass and white bass. They bred in a hatchery and are stocked at some water either in New Jersey or Pennsylvania and find their way into the river.
There was also another catch but this one was a full breed striped bass. A few differences are hybrids have broken lines, a smaller mouth, and their bodies more slender but they are football shaped.
On the menu front we found a dead buck (male) shad that surely could be a meal for large striped bass. The roes (females) are much bigger and might be a mouthful and too much to choke down. But the snacks the bass love this time of year are the herring, either bluebacks or alewives.
