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Originally Posted by Headhunter
I do not believe stripers do not eat gamefish and they will for sure eat crappie. The biggest striper I ever had on was trying to eat a 2 lb smallmouth I had hooked on Priest. I have no clue but looked to be 40 or more pounds.
Also, for what it is worth, Mitch Tinney told me that one of the absolute best baits on Priest for hybrids and stripers is crappie.
But do stripers eat enough gamefish to damage the population? I do not think so. If that was true priest would have been dead many years ago.
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If a person wants to use crappie for bait on JPP, it has to be at least 10 inches as that is the legal length to keep a crappie.
That is pretty big bait for the size of hybrids and stripers we have in JPP.
I haven't heard of any big stripers (over 20 lbs) being caught on JPP for a few years now.
I see the lake record was set in 2010 (58+ lbs) but the biggest I caught last year was 22 lbs. Didn't hear of anything bigger.