Hybrid? Striper?
 

hybrid or striper?

hybrids
 

these things are farmed and sold to fish markets up and down the east coast......wouldn't be surprised if one escaped alive......esp. around the mid-atlantic area.........

Body looks too streamlined to be a hybrid. Those are usually football shaped.

Broken lines don't mean anything. It's just a genetic trait of some stripers, like freckles on humans.

they are in Rivers
many rivers lead to the sea

2nd that, I've seen them in Asian supermarkets and they are a key item for sale. Though, knowing what a REAL striper tastes like, eating these are a disappointment since it just isn't the same.

I,m with MikeP
usually they seldom have the [runner] look & always look like they had ten pogies for lunch .
also the ones I,ve seen up close & personal .have a smaller mouth & jaw structure / more like a XXL white perch , which are actually in the same family ;;;

Yup--another name for them is "wipers" because they're a cross between a striped bass and a white bass. The tend to have more of a white bass mouth.

Fish
 

This was caught in a lake im new to striper fishing as we just moved to virginia just was always told stripers have solid unbroken lines which later found out is not true at all this fish is 30 lbs 42 inches

I've only seen one hybrid striper in saltwater, and it was near a small central jersey river where stripers and white perch both winter over and spawn in the spring in pretty good numbers. It's not out of the realm of possibility that a hybrid or two occurred naturally there.

Fish was about 18 inches long, built like a big white perch with broken stripes. The guy next to me got it on a bloodworm.

Nice fish - welcome to S-B... Some of the NC stripers IIRC are more prone to broken lines and either more lines, more rays, or both.

I don,t know if it still has . But we used to fish a small pond in Taunton or Lakeville that had stripers in it ::

I have caught a bunch of stripers with messed up lines running the sides ><><><

Nice fish Nolan

welcome to SB

Nice bass. Definitely not a hybrid. Virginia stocks striped bass in Smith Mtn lake IIRC.

Nope.Absolutely not a hybrid.Caught way to many out of Braunig Lake
to know that.

Looks like a small genetic variation.

Hybrids were introduced to the stock in an effort to help numbers. Use to catch a bunch of those in Jersey.
tough to tell without some sort of testing where they are from
i do know the hybrids are spawning with the natural stock

Hybrids
 

Been catching quite a few hybrids lately and now realize theres a big diffrence between the two! Heres some pics.