

Popular lures include casting spoons, buck-tail jigs, soft-body plastic fish replicas, and inline spinners. Often called "breaking", this surface feeding makes the fish visible and easy to catch on a wide array of lures and baits. Often schooling by the thousands, these stocked fish surface feed on baitfish such as shad. Hybrid striped bass are known for aggressive feeding habits which makes them highly sought-after by anglers. Others are produced by fertilizing eggs from striped bass with sperm from white bass the resulting fish is called a "palmetto bass". Some of these fish are produced by fertilizing eggs from white bass with sperm from striped bass the resulting fish are also called "sunshine bass" or "Cherokee bass". Hybrid striped bass are produced two different ways. Hybrid striped bass are used both as a gamefish and a food fish. Currently, about 10 million lb (4.5 million kg) are produced annually in the United States. Most producers purchase the fish young (as fry or fingerlings) and raise them in freshwater ponds. They became part of aquaculture in the United States in the late 1980s. Hybrid striped bass are considered better suited for culture in ponds than either parent species because they are more resilient to extremes of temperature and low dissolved oxygen, although they gravitate toward areas of moving water within impoundments. A hybrid striped bass, also known as a wiper or whiterock bass, is a hybrid between the striped bass ( Morone saxatilis) and the white bass ( M.
