Our HSB are 10-14" long and we catch them again and again. Everything in our lake is catch and release. We use circle hooks and fathead minnows under slip bobbers. I don't know this for sure but it seems that it is easier to catch the pure white bass than the hybrids. We see a few fish dead along the bank occasionally but haven't seen white or HSB dead.
From dumbest to smartest, our lake goes like this: SMB, white bass, bluegill, hybrid bluegill, rock bass, crappie, walleye, LMB, freshwater drum, goldeyes and channel catfish.
