Fishing, and hunting reports (share yours)

I believe it's striped bass and white bass mix. I'm not 100% sure though. I just know we catch hundreds of them at a time!

 

Sure will. Those LeverEvolutions are NASTY!

 

Yes, they are very nasty! Very frangible, which is devastating on medium game. For thick skinned dangerous game like grizzly, I'd load solid cast heavy bullets, preferably 400+ grains!

 

I got some 400gr bear loads for that

 

Man I like seeing different fish from across the country, especially stuff like that since it's unfamiliar to me. Do they get any bigger, or are they a nuisance? It seems like they would eat good if they get some size to them.

 

We've caught them up to a pound average size. I just found out that they are also called Wipers. Cross between White Bass and Striped Bass. They come up into the shallows to spawn and are abundant to catch!

 

Well shoot, learn something new every day. Now that you say it, I do remember people referring to them. One-pounders sound big enough to eat Thank you very much for the info bravo.

 

Here's a couple of pictures from time out in the hills a couple weeks ago.

A few head of bulls in velvet. I'm thinking we should be getting close to seeing some rubs start to show up.



And here's a picture of a bear that came out kinda cool. He was way up on the hill, so I had my boy hold the 10x binoculars and took this picture through them with my cell phone! It was HARD to get things lined up, and the bad optics warped the image, but it gave it a neat effect

 

They're not good eating fish at all. Very bony and greasy, equivalent to that black stripe down the side of a Striped Bass. This is what they look like up close.


Crappie on the other hand, is the good eating fish! They don't call it sweet meat for nothing! It you can catch a dozen or so pounders of Crappies, you have a meal for about 4 people!

 

Man, I would love to get out west someday. I've always dreamed of an opportunity to bowhunt some Elk or Mulies!

 

Crappie are great, about my favorite! Or big yellow perch. Or big bluegill It's too bad those wipers aren't good eating, I just assumed they would be, coming from the parent fish.

Some good hunting for both out here, a little better for elk. Our whitetails aren't as good as elsewhere though.

 

Nice haul! Those Perch surely are good eating too.

Who needs Whitetail when you have Elk and Mule deer!

 

Lol, you make a good point! I do love hunting the sneaky little devils though

 

Them deer are all cousins somehow. I love hunting in general and tend to hunt whatever is in season, when I'm not fishing or doing other stuff.

 

That's me right there too. Luckily there's something open out here somewhere about all year.

 

I'm thinking I'd need way more practice to pull that off! Thanks for the explanation

 

Hey Bravo, I believe what you're catching is yellow bass. Here's a link to an article about the species.
http://www.outdoorchannel.com/article.aspx?id=28887