Hooch Lineside Update - 34lb stripe and more

mizzippi jb

Welcome back.
Nice catches homie! Baseball is in full swing for the boy, but I hope to get up with you soon. Maybe if it don't rain Sunday
 

Cedarridge Tomcat

Senior Member
From what I've read, striper eggs need to float in current for 72 hours before they hatch. So they need a long river with continuous current to survive. During a wet year when they have to continuously pull water from the dams to prevent flooding a lot of them probably do survive. But during normal or dry years, they'll sink during slack water times and die. So, its probably mostly stocking that sustains the fishery on the Hooch. Some of them live, but most of them don't.

That's correct Mikey, conditions would have to be PERFECT for them to successfully spawn.
 
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