Originally Posted By: esshup
ask them for the scientific name of the fish that you bought from them. If they say it's a hybrid, then ask them what fish was the male and what fish was the female parent.


Esshup
Thanks for your answer. I re-read the mag. last night after posting here and found in the article "Catfish Nuggets" the a reference to hybrids stating that the cross of a male BC X CC was more catchable. In Bob's article on Blue Catfish there was a picture of a hybrid catfish but it lookes nothing like the ones I buy - it is brown not blue. I wonder if I can surmise that it must have been the result of a male CC X female BC? I wonder what those are like and how catchable they are and their behavior in a pond? After reading this issue I think I found the answer to my question about why my bass didn't grow large, likely I had too many catfish. I'm presently restocking after a fish kill and won't make that mistake again. I also wonder if the fish Zetts sells as "Silver Channel Catfish" are actually CC. I'm thinking I'd like to stock BC in much lower numbers than I did on my first stocking when I used hybrids without knowing it. I was under the misconception that catfish (of all kinds) were scavengers and grew mostly on what I fed them. Anyone that can shed more light into this topic will help me and hopefully others.

Kru heller
Powhatan, Va.