Sturgeon Hole yeilds record Wiper Bass

[Hotwired]

From todays Macomb Daily:

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/533/medium/fish_Medium_.JPG

Sorry if you can't read it but it's a cross between a White Bass and a Striper and was 20 lbs and beat the old Canadian record by 13 lbs.

Here's the link:

http://macombdaily.com/stories/051706/loc_bigfish001.shtml

[nosleeptillbrooklyn]

WOW, that thing is huge. I wonder how many more made that voyage ?

[huntingmaniac45]

Holy cow............I was kidding my buddy today that he was the white bass king, he caught some huge ones this moring, I would have fell out of the boat laughing, if he would have hooked up with something like that.:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Fried Fillets]

Very interesting, thanks for posting. Like somebody else said on this site recently, "fishing the Detroit River is great because you NEVER know what you might catch."

[Houghton laker]

Hotwired would put the net down on that one for me!!:lol: :lol: If it ain't a walleye...forget the net!!:lol:

[CASTMASTER 5000]

I don't care what it is. If it's that big , I'll get out the net. Can you imagine the fight that thing would put up!

[huntingmaniac45]

I bet that thing would make a mess of your leads.:lol: :rant:

[roger23]

This may help Not trying to step on your post .these old eyes need all the help they can get

Anglers reel in a record

Cousins go fishing for walleye, land hybrid Wiper bass
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2006

By Tom Watts
Macomb Daily Staff Writer

Sam Oddo and Craig Jeroue have been fishing on Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River for much of their adult life, and through that experience they figured the bite at the end of Oddo's line Sunday was a small muskie or a lake sturgeon.
"When we finally landed it in the boat, we looked at each other and said, 'What is it?'" said Oddo of Algonac. Oddo, along with Jeroue of New Baltimore, landed a record 20-pound white bass and striper bass hybrid called a Wiper on the Canadian side of the Detroit River.

Oddo and Jeroue were vertical jigging for walleye near Peche Island with 3/4-ounce lead-headed jigs and a rubber minnow on a Cabela's 10-pound test line.

"We were using light tackle with a five-foot pole and bait casting reel in 22 to 28 feet of water," Oddo said Monday. "Conditions in the morning had a light east wind, and little murky water. Not perfect conditions, but walleye were biting."

What greeted the 47-year-old cousins once aboard their 16-foot aluminum boat was "monstrous."

"We've never seen anything like it," Jeroue said. "When it hit we knew it wasn't a walleye. At the time, Sam was willing to break the line so we could get in some walleye fishing. I told him to fight it."

With a couple walleye "keepers" in the live well, Oddo, who works for the Macomb County Road Commission, proceeded to battle the beastly fish for the next 10 minutes.

"I thought about cutting the line," he said. "I didn't want to fool around with it. I figured it would take too long to reel it in. But I'm glad I did."

Because he took the hybrid bass in Canadian waters, Oddo took the fish to a Ontario Fishery biologist in Wheatley, Ontario, where they weighed the fish and concluded it was a hybrid bass.

Next week, Oddo said he will go to Toronto and hand over his record fish to Mark Cousins with the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, who will ultimately determine the fish to be a Canadian record.

The Canadian record was 7 pounds before Oddo's catch. By comparison, the Michigan record for a Wiper bass is 10 pounds, 12 ounces, and the world record is 27 pounds.

"It's a unique situation," Oddo said. "In order for Ontario to put it in their record book, they want to keep the fish. As long as I cooperate, they offered to mount a replica of it for me. I'm going that route. I wished they could take their measurements and let me keep it, but I'll go along with it."

There will be three replicas produced: one goes to Oddo; one will go on display at a location in Ontario; and a third replica goes to the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters for display at an Ontario conservation center.

Mike Hamblin, 52, a cousin of Oddo, said he's never seen anything like it in all his years fishing on the lake.

"It's a dandy," Hamblin said inside his New Baltimore garage where Oddo covered the bass in an ice cooler, having just returned from Lansing where the Department of Natural Resources fisheries division examined the fish.

"It's the biggest bass I've seen from these waters," Hamblin concluded.

The DNR theorizes the hybrid bass came from a river in southeast Ohio where some of the bass were recently released.

"They grow fast," Oddo said, "but the DNR claims they're sterile. They can't reproduce. There have been some releases in the Ohio River, but I wish it would have been tagged. If they go through all that work to breed two fish together and then to have someone catch it and not have a tag, I find that odd."
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[Can't Touch This]

heres a pic oh a wiper i caught in kansas last year, and i thought it was a big one.
http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/wiper12.jpg

[RyGuy525]

SInce when does the detroit river have those? I never knew michigan any waters connected to michigan had those!

[MUSHY1]

Ya got to Read the Article RyGuy....It made its way up from the Illinois river.....A very long trip indeed......It would have to go through Lake Michigan to get here from there. And who says the Alwives are gone, looks like that fish ate just fine on its Journey.....Just to have the Record would be Sweet reward for me.....

Mushy