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Guys:
As you will read in the November-December issue of Pond Boss magazine, the hybrid striper ("wiper") is a good fish for ponds for a variety of reasons. Chief among them are:
* They are readily available from fish farmers and brokers, thus competitively priced.
* Hybrid stripers can be stocked at a fairly high density, even in a pond no larger than 1 surface acre, because you can supplement their natural forage supply with high protein pellets.
* Hybrids are sterile, so you have the ultimate control over their numbers. No real risk of them spawning themselves out of balance with other populations.
* Hybrids commonly grow to weights of 8-to-10 pounds and when hooked, hybrids fight like the cross between a smallmouth and a flathead catfish.
One or two considerations . . . I have stocked them in a lake with an established population of LMB, and received strong performances by all species.
I would not, however, place 15-inch hybrids in a small puddle with 8-inch LMB. In that scenario, your bass would become expensive lunch.
Mark McDonald Editor, Pond Boss
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