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Did ye go to Standing Bear thar RA?
Shit I thought all there was in that lake was Trout...
That's all I caught when we went there
There's decent Crappie and Bluegill in there.
Every wiper I've ever seen caught was small tho.
How do you know they are wipers? Was the lake recently stocked with 'em?
I'm not 100% sure they are wipers, but they look like a wiper to me. They are some kind of hybrid, because we never caught anything like them back when I was a kid. The lake is full of them and the kids catch more of those than Bluegill when bank fishing with a bobber in the warm months.
They look like this. Maybe 5 - 6" or so.
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Next time ye catch one, look at it's tongue; there will be very distinctive round discolored circles on each side of the tongue, if there is only one then it is a white bass.
Also the horizontal lines on the fish will be broken, but sometimes this happens to white bass. The only way to confirm is it's tongue. They are also a hybrid and their not supposed to be able to reproduce.
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These are the little bait thieves. They are all about this size. When we go fishing in the warmer months they keep me busy going from one kid's pole to the other they catch so many of them. When I was a kid it was Bluegill, now they catch 3 of these to every Bluegill.
Shit-fish if you can't eat them, imo.
for sure....
If they haven't stocked this lake in awhile, I'd say it's a white bass, although it does have broken horizontal lines on it. Tough to say for sure.
I'm glad you got out and caught some though..... Had ta make the kids happy, happy....