Mon River

Mon looked pretty nasty today just south of you in Speers, might want to head for a lake.

Pretty much just the color, not much debris.  I could notice the flow from the bridge deck if that any indication.  I've been eager to get out but consider it a waste of time when the river looks as it did today, I like to fish for the sauger and walleyes this time of the year but I'll tough it out for a few more weeks, springs around the corner hopefully.

Thanks guys.........wheels are in motion........worst case well get the 1st skunking outta the way.......think i read that somewhere else.....

At least you caught some fish.
 
Ronnie

Hey everyone.....been looking at other pics of wipers and what not......is the fish pictured in this post a hybrid? or just a huge white bass?  This fish definatley had the double tooth patch?
 
Also....is the toothpatch visible on smaller and younger hybrids?  maybe not as developed?
 

Thanks pork....
 
As far as the mon right now....flow is 3 times what we had last saturday.....plus with the snow.....no river for me this weekend....maybe a DHALO area though....
 
Have a good holiday weekend....
 

does anyone know if the white bass still run up Pigeon Creek in Mon City, used to catch alot of them there at the mouth  in spring like 20 years ago?

I went for a walk on the river trail Wednesday and did not see a lot of debri.
Water was darker than average with whitecaps and appeared to be flowing backwords.

I believe is the lines are broken it's a hybrid.

On a true white bass, the lines are continuous.

I fish that spot all summer long. I'll be there as soon as all the docks get put in.
Can't wait.

Broken lines are a way to help tell the difference between a full strain striper and a hybrid, but I don't believe hybrids always have broken lines.  It is not a way to tell the difference between a white bass and a hybrid though, Generally white bass only have 1 or 2 dark lines and the rest of them are broken and faint colored.
 
The tooth patch in the middle of the tongue is the best way to tell the difference between whites and hybrids. On whites it basically looks like a rounded blister right in the center of the tongue that feels like sand paper(teeth), on hybrids that tooth patch(blister looking thing) is split in two generally with a gap between that seems to get wider the bigger the fish get.
 
 
Just looking at the pictures, it's pretty tough to tell, but they almost all look like hybrids. The large one I'd say definitely is.   I wouldn't bet either way on what the smaller ones are without seeing the too patch though.Could be either one.
 
I have seen some giant white bass caught in the Beaver river, some I sort of wish I'd have put on a scale.

Well as we were getting skunked at yellow creek yesterday we were sayin "shoulda gone to the river"....it was said 20times at least.......alot of anglers out but didnt see any fish caught.....kinda cold....water temp 41 deg....river temps definatley higher......eh?