Big Fish Fridays: Spring Lake striper
Big Fish Fridays
Every Friday from now through the start of duck season we will post stories and pictures about big fish and the anglers that caught them. To help make this happen, we need your help. And to sweeten the pot, we will be giving away prizes to readers who submit pictures and stories. Two lucky readers who submit a story and picture(s) will receive prizes in April, May, June and July. How can you submit stories and pictures? Simple. Click here. Or send us an e-mail and we'll handle the rest.Biologists have shocked up yet another record fish in central Illinois.
The latest tease of a fish is a fat-bellied hybrid striped bass at Spring Lake near Macomb. Earlier last week Dr. Tim Spier of Western Illinois shocked a fat fish that weighed 22 pounds, 8 ounces.
That would top the state record 20-pound, 0.32-ounce fish caught by David Gjelsvik at Lake of Egypt on June 20, 1993.
And that’s not the only big striper in the McDonough County lake.
On Wednesday the Department of Natural Resources netted five hybrid stripers weighing between 10-14 pounds at Spring Lake, otherwise known mostly for its catfish and stunted crappie.
If you make the trip to the McDonough County lake, consider fishing around the dam, where most of the stripers tend to congregate.
Below is a picture of Doran DeBold of Blandinsville holding two hybrid striped bass from Spring Lake that weighed 14 pounds apiece and were sampled on April 22.
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That is one massive striper. I don’t think I have ever seen a fish with a gut like that. It is shocking it can swim fast enough to actually catch any of those baitfish.
full of eggs even so there sterile, i had caught one 19-6 at clinton before that was like that but only camera i had was on cell phone and got a crappy pic
LOVE THE SHIRT…by the way what were you using?
I usually catch hybrids off of the bottom. Nightcrawlers, chicken liver, cut bait. Hybrids don’t seem to be too finicky.
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