Ever Hear Of A Fish Called Wipers? It's a hybrid Striped Bass crossed with a White Bass...they get huge, well into 20 pounds. The name Wipers may be a local thing in Lahontan...

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Mar 3, 2023 12:39:59 #

woodguru Loc: El Dorado Ca

It's a hybrid Striped Bass crossed with a White Bass...they get huge, well into 20 pounds.

The name Wipers may be a local thing in Lahontan Reservoir, they are planted all over the country and it doesn't sound like they are called that...it's an odd name, it seems like the name Swipers would be a better mix of Smallmouth and Stripers.

Anyway, I've been reading descriptions and 5 pounders are described as line stripping beasts, they say they are super fighters, better than pure Striped Bass.

Mar 3, 2023 12:42:52 #

woodguru Loc: El Dorado Ca

The other thing said about Lahontan Reservoir is that it has way too toxic water to eat the fish, a friend who lives close to there was saying the fish test out as having extreme levels way higher than other lakes because of the silver and lead mines in the area.

Mar 3, 2023 12:51:41 #

woodguru Loc: El Dorado Ca

I was just reading something that says Lahontan has the nation's most toxic fish...

https://www.2news.com/news/toxic-fish-why-the-carson-river-is-a-federally-listed-health-risk/article_657ce5aa-bc38-11ec-b13b-dff7959a475d.html

Mar 3, 2023 12:59:06 #

EasternOZ Loc: Kansas City Metro

We have them here in lakes and probably rivers.

This one with several other caught at a small lake called lonestar southwest of Lawrence KS.

Mar 3, 2023 13:04:21 #

woodguru Loc: El Dorado Ca

EasternOZ wrote:

We have them here in lakes and probably rivers.

This one with several other caught at a small lake called lonestar southwest of Lawrence KS.

They say they are really good eating, sweet and firm and flaky.

Mar 3, 2023 13:06:19 #

EasternOZ Loc: Kansas City Metro

woodguru wrote:

They say they are really good eating, sweet and firm and flaky.

Along with a good fighter

Mar 3, 2023 13:09:08 #

woodguru Loc: El Dorado Ca

EasternOZ wrote:

Along with a good fighter

Right, I was reading a description that said a five pounder was a line stripping machine...imagine a fifteen pounder.

Mar 3, 2023 13:52:27 #

ShortorderCook62 Loc: Grand Junction, Colorado

Note the broken stripes. That distinguishes them from Stripers. The wider body makes them strong and good fighters. They dont catch and release well because of the stress of the fight. They are 100% into the fight. The fillets are mostly translucent on the smaller fish. The larger fish sometimes have a red mudline. If you v-cut the red out you have firm great tasting meat. This is true of both Stripers and Wipers at least in midwestern lakes that I have fished such as Texoma and lakes around Austin, TX.

Mar 3, 2023 13:55:18 #

EasternOZ Loc: Kansas City Metro

I have caught them on spoons and chicken livers.

At lonestar

Mar 3, 2023 15:19:33 #

bknecht Loc: Northeast pa

ShortorderCook62 wrote:

Note the broken stripes. That distinguishes them f... (show quote)

Absolutely agree there SOC, if that hemoglobin rich red meat isn’t removed they’re not very tasty.

Mar 3, 2023 19:56:26 #

DCGravity Loc: Fairfax, VA (by way of Cleveland OH)

We got them here in VA and call them wipers as well. They're stocked in some of the southwestern reservoirs in the state. Have caught them with spoons and shiners as I recall; it's been a while. Heckuva fighter! I honestly can't tell the difference in taste though between wiper and rockfish (striper).

Mar 4, 2023 16:30:48 #

Snaggletooth one and only Loc: Novato, CA

I do believe there actually called Palmetto bass. They were crossed bred in the 1960s. Never caught one. Just know the type.

Mar 5, 2023 01:02:26 #

Commander Bell Loc: Lafayette Indiana

woodguru wrote:

It's a hybrid Striped Bass crossed with a White Ba... (show quote)

I've heard of Wipes being caught in the Tippecanoe River and in White County on lakes Freeman and Shaffer, but I've never seen one personaly
Commander Bell out

Mar 5, 2023 20:37:14 #

GlsJr40 Loc: Dallas, Tx.

I don't know if it's a hard and fast rule, but it seems to me that in north Texas, the term "hybrid" is automatically interpreted to mean a striper cross with a white bass. I don't think I've ever heard the name "wiper" used locally.

Mar 5, 2023 22:55:46 #

Commander Bell Loc: Lafayette Indiana

Hoosier's are strange foke and talk in a slang all our own. Even Northern Indiana is different than Southern Indiana. To us a White Bass and and Striped Bass hybrid is called a Wiper. Northern Indiana has the ( spelling as it sounds) Crawpee while Southern has the Crappee. Some of us, myself included, call them slabs.
Yes we're a strange bunch. Even though Indiana is nicknamed the Hoosier State not everyone refers to themselves as Hoosier's. I live 5 miles from the Purdue Campus. If you say that you are a Hoosier that means you are a fan of the Indiana University Hoosier's. Here at Purdue University we call ourselves Boilermakers. IU and Purdue are bitter rivals when it comes to sports.
In conclusion Indiana language is all over the place. Be you a Hoosier, a Boilermaker or the Irish ( nickname for the Fighting Irish of Noter Dame ) we all have one thing in common. We all love to fish.
No offense to South Bend, I suffer from severe Dislectsia and forget how to spell Noter Dame. Would someone please correct . my spelling error. I would be much obliged.
Commander Bell out

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