[jimmythegreek]

Hybrids were produced as panfish eaters, they help make trophy lakes by eating the small sunnies and crappie/perch. The real key is they are STERILE, you stock them and they die, they dont reproduce. Almost every private lake and many trophy lakes have this in common, there are hybrids stocked into them. Other states (PA included) do very well with true strain stripers and they have limited reproduction, they need a river/creek to really do their thing. The problem is the true strains are huge eaters, and if lets say LH was stocked with them, there would no longer be trout stocked in those waters, the stripers would give the finger to the muskies as they ate their trout!!