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Species overview: In their native habitat, the Atlantic Coast from the St. Lawrence River to Florida and some tributaries of the Gulf of Mexico, the striped bass is a true anadromous fish, living in salt water but traveling to fresh water to spawn. Through stocking, striped bass have reached the West Coast. Striped bass can also live entirely in fresh water as a landlocked form that cannot reach the sea. In Pennsylvania, striped bass are found in the Delaware River, and historically had been found throughout the Susquehanna River, the fish traveling upstream from the Chesapeake Bay. Dams on the Susquehanna had blocked the striped bass upstream migration to spawning grounds, but fish lifts, or fishways, on the dams should soon make access possible to the middle Susquehanna for this and other anadromous fishes. Striped bass have also been stocked in several of Pennsylvania’s large inland reservoirs, with an especially good fishery having developed in Raystown Lake in Huntingdon County.
Striped bass are valuable food fish, as well as much sought-after sport fish. Striped bass provided an important food source for the Plymouth colonists, who as early as 1623 netted enough of the fish to support themselves during the summer months. Captain John Smith wrote of the excellent eating qualities of striped bass. The seagoing stripers along the Atlantic Coast occur in definite “races,” or stocks, different from one another but not so much to be called subspecies, depending on where their home range is located.
When the Santee River in South Carolina was impounded during the 1940s, the striped bass present there produced a population that adapted to a freshwater landlocked existence. Offspring and subsequent generations of these fish have been stocked in many inland waters, reservoirs and the rivers that run into them throughout North America.
South of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, fishermen call stripers “rockfish.” Their species name “saxatilis” means “dwelling among rocks.”
Striped Bass Hybrid
Morone saxatilis X Morone chrysops
More on Hybrids
Identification: The hybrid striped bass’s body is stockier than that of a pure striped bass, and its lateral stripes are discontinuous and less distinct. Its back is dark, almost black. Its sides are silvery, with seven or eight faint and broken-looking lateral stripes, and its belly is white. The anal fin has 11 or 12 rays, and there are two tooth patches on the rear of its tongue. In size it grows to a length and weight midway between its parents. A 10- or 12-pounder is considered a big one.
Species overview: The striped bass hybrid is a hatchery-created cross between a white bass and a striped bass. It is stocked primarily because it tolerates warmer water than the purebred striped bass, which, as it grows older and larger, requires well-oxygenated water during the summer. In Pennsylvania it is stocked mostly in the western part of the state, in reservoirs such as Lake Arthur and Shenango Lake, and in the big-river area of the Ohio and Allegheny rivers near Pittsburgh. Here the hybrid typically grows larger than the white bass. Fisheries managers in the state do not tend to stock the striped bass hybrid in lakes and rivers that lead to Delaware or Chesapeake bays to minimize the chance of the hybrids mixing and reproducing with wild marine striped bass.
LAKE NOCKAMIXON :
Hybrid striped Bass and Pure stripers
Northern Bucks County's 1,450-acre Nockamixon Lake provides an important hybrid striper fishery in the southeastern portion of the state. 7,250 hybrid fingerlings stocked annually since 1998 Pure striped bass, both fingerling and fry, have also been stocked on a consistent basis. Stripers up to 17 pounds and hybrids run 10 to 12 pounds. Alewives and gizzard shad comprise the forage base in Nockamixon, and savvy anglers know stripers are rarely found far from their food source. Nockamixon Lake offers four boat access areas. Anglers typically use the Three Mile Run and Haycock launch areas. Maximum horsepower was recently raised to 20 horsepower. For additional information, call the Nockamixon State Park office at (215) 529-7300.
Near Quakertown, in Upper Bucks county, Pennsylvania
KAERCHER CREEK LAKE : Hybrid striped Bass
Berks County
Kaercher Creek Lake is a 31 acre impoundment owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and managed by the Fish and Boat Commission. It is located in Berks County on the eastern edge of Hamburg. Part of the facility is managed by Berks County Parks and Recreation. It is located East of Hamburg along old Route 22. The lake is managed as a Big Bass Lake . Access for anglers is excellent along the north shore of the lake with well worn angler paths, mowed grass fields, and two fishing piers providing access to the waters edge.
LAKE ARTHUR : Hybrid striped Bass
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania 16057
Lake Arthur provides over forty miles of scenic shoreline. Its tributaries include Muddy Run, Big Run, Swamp Run, Bear Run and over 75 intermittent streams. Ranging from an average depth of 12 feet to about 36 feet deep near the dam, the shallow waters are home to a variety of warm water fish.
PURE BRED STRIPERS IN PENNSYLVANIAre River
(recent sitings in upper Delaware) Near Calicoon N.Y. approximately 10 miles north east of Honsedale.Pa.
Raystown Lake
Holds the state freshwater record 53 lbs 12 oz.
Lake Wallenpaupack 5,700-acres in Pike and Wayne counties
The lake owned by PPL holds primarily smallmouths and some largemouths in the shallow-water coves. On the right night, huge striped bass can be taken with livebait as well as lures.
Raystown Lake Striper Club
The following seasons, sizes and creel limits apply to the Delaware River and to Delaware River tributaries from the mouths of the tributaries upstream to the limit of the tidal influence and the Lehigh River from its mouth upstream to the first dam in Easton , Pennsylvania.
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Class A regulated fishing lakes stocking stripers and or hybrids in Pa.
Class A regulated fishing lakes fall into one of the following categories:
Lakes wholly opened to the general public for fishing and operated solely as commercial ventures.
Lakes situated wholly within the grounds of a privately owned campground provided that the campground is open to the general public and operated as a commercial venture regardless of whether the campground operator sells admissions to fish at the lake to members of the public who are not camping at the campground.
Lakes with a total water area of less than 20 acres situated wholly within the grounds of a private fishing and boating, rod and gun or sportsmen's club or organization when fishing in the lake is limited to members of the club or organization and the sponsoring club or organization operates a cooperative nursery recognized by the Commission, provided that fish raised by the cooperative nursery shall be stocked in waters of this Commonwealth open for free public fishing and not in Class B (not open to the general public or operated as a commercial venture) lakes.
Persons patronizing a Class A regulated fishing lake may catch, kill and possess fish without regard to any size, season or possession limit and need not possess a Pennsylvania fishing license.
List of Class A lakes with Striped Bass and Hybrids stocked in Pennsylvania
Beaver County
HUGHES LAKE * HUGHES LAKE 4.40 acres
471 MACKHOLLOW ROAD
GEORGETOWN, PA 15043
(724)947-2187
Striped Bass
Berks County
GEHMANS LAKE * GEHMAN'S POND 6.60 Acres
889 MAPLE GROVE ROAD
MOHNTON, PA 19540
(717)445-6653
Striped Bass
ROBIN HILL LLC * PRIVATE POND 2.20 Acres
149 ROBIN HILL RD
LENHARTSVILLE, PA 19534-9529
(610)756-6117
Striped Bass
CASTLE LAKE * CASTLE LAKE 3.30 Acres
2285 FARMINGTON AVENUE
BOYERTOWN, PA 19512-0311
(610)369-0464
Hybrid Striped Bass
Bucks County
QUAKERWOODS CAMPGROUND INC * QUAKERWOODS CAMPGROUND 2.20 Acres
2225 ROSEDALE RD
QUAKERTOWN, PA 18951-4052
(215)536-1984
Striped Bass
Cumberland County
LIBERTY FORGE GOLF COURSE * EQUITY AND JUSTICE LAKE 5.00 Acres
PO BOX 1229
CAMP HILL, PA 17001
(717)763-1333
Striped Bass
Fayette County
WORLD OF REPTILES * .00
184 GRANGE ROAD
MCCLELLANDTOWN, PA 15458
(724)439-1380
Striped Bass
Fulton County
MASON DIXON COUNCIL * SINOQUIPE LAKE 9.90 Acres
677 BOY SCOUT ROAD
FORT LITTLETON, PA 17223
(717)987-3464
Striped Bass
Lancaster County
OAK CREEK CAMPGROUNDS INC * OAK CREEK CAMPGROUNDS
P O BOX 128
BOWMANSVILLE, PA 17507
(717)445-6161
Hybrid Striped Bass
SPRING TROUT FISH FARM * SPRING TR FEE FISHNG LAKE .25 Acres
637 NEW HOLLAND ROAD
NEW HOLLAND, PA 17557-9531
(717)355-9947
Hybrid Striped Bass
Northampton County
INDIAN CREEK FARM * INDIAN CREEK FARM 3.30 1096 - 48 A
3479 MANGO DRIE
DANIELSVILLE, PA 18038-9768
(610)760-0739
Hybrid Striped Bass
HOT SPOT LAKE * HOT SPOT 3.30 Acres
965 MUNICIPAL ROAD
WALNUTPORT, PA 18088-9718
(610)767-4754
Striped Bass
Northumberland County
SHANGRI LA ON THE CREEK * CATFISH/GAZEBO POND 3.30 Acres
670 HIDDEN PARADISE ROAD
MILTON, PA 17847-9713
(570)524-4561
Striped Bass
RIVER AND FUN INC * YOGI ON THE RIVER 4.40 Acres
213 YOGI BLVD
NORTHUMBERLAND, PA 17857-9742
(570)473-1157
Striped Bass
Potter County
RAINBOW PARADISE TROUT FARM * RAINBOW PARADISE TR FARM 9.75 Acres
1660 EAST SECOND STREET
COUDERSPORT, PA 16915-9766
(814)274-8309
Hybrid Striped Bass
York County
STONE WALL FISH FARM * 1.10 Acres
6290 ALLISON MILL RD
GLENVILLE, PA 17329
(717)637-1321
Striped Bass
