3 was taken by Robert Petr of Hastings on a jig; it weighed 14 pounds, 8 ounces.Some of the other reservoirs producing trophy wipers: Johnson Lake, from which Mike Bliven of Lexington took one weighing 14 pounds, 5 ounces; the Tri-County Canal, in which swam the 12-pound, 10-ounce contender landed by Jim Gutherless of Maxwell; Swanson Reservoir, which surrendered an 11-pound, 5-ounce fish to Dan Lefevre of Thornton, Colo.; and Lake Maloney, home of the 10-pound, 3-ounce prize that Wesley Kohl of North Platte fooled with the help of a minnow.The Master Angler entries for wipers totaled 552 in 2001, and that entry was third behind walleyes — 635 — and largemouth bass — 670.Bauer explained that despite Harlan's having had 15 of the top 20 big wipers in the Master Angler program in 2002, others produce more action. He has set the state record five times. No. It was then I thought 'Man, I'm in trouble! Yes, you can troll for hybrid striped bass with umbrella rigs, deep diving plugs, and jigs.
"In the spring I work on them with jigging spoons and live bait or plastic power baits on a drop-shot rig.
The big hybrid, taken in 1999 from Red Willow Reservoir, weighed 20 pounds, 1 ounce. A hybrid striped bass, also known as a wiper or whiterock bass, is a hybrid between the striped bass (Morone saxatilis) and the white bass (M. chrysops).It can be distinguished from the striped bass by broken rather than solid horizontal stripes on the body.
"According to Bauer, the wiper doesn't pose a threat of overpopulation, since, as a hybrid, it's a "mule" in the fish world. "The wipers tend to come up on top chasing shad then and they are something else when they slam into a topwater lure. "I can't say enough good things about the wiper," Porter said. "Red Willow Reservoir is my favorite because it's close and it has a well-balanced fish population," Lytle said. In north-central Nebraska, Calamus Reservoir is a good one for wipers, and Willow Creek Reservoir is the only wiper lake in the northeast.The Nebraska state record for wipers is held by fishing guide Steve Lytle of McCook. It measured 28 inches long and weighed 12-10. The wiper, like its striper parent, has two rows of teeth near the rear of the tongue. "One of the neat things about them is that they can be taken on a lot of different lures and bait. Shane Valentine of Hastings boated the largest one on a shiner; weighing 19 pounds, 5 ounces, it was caught on June 29. Mosey’s woes of busted line, a battered reel and straightened hooks are common themes when wiper fisherman share fish stories. The wiper — well on its way to making its mark as one of the top game fish in the central United States — is a product of man's manipulation of fish species among the temperate bass that scientists refer to as the family Percichthyida.What that bit of ichthyological lore means is that fisheries scientists took a small member of that family — the white bass — and crossed it with a giant member — the saltwater striped bass.