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Sunshine Bass
The sunshine bass,
a hybrid of striped bass and white bass, is artificially
spawned at Commission hatcheries. Hybrids are stocked in
lakes with an abundance of gizzard and threadfin shad.
Sunshine bass are also stocked together with stripers in
some river systems, and some of the best fishing is
found in the Apalachicola and St. Johns rivers. The
mouth of the Escambia River near Pensacola has good
hybrid fishing, and sunshine bass feed around the fish
attractors in Newnans Lake near Gainesville.
 Live
bait, including shad, grass shrimp and crayfish are
especially effective, but jigs, spoons and
imitation-minnow plugs also produce. In urban lakes,
shrimp, squid and even cut-up pieces of hot dogs will
attract sunshine bass. Sunshine bass readily concentrate
around mechanical feeders that periodically dispense
food pellets.
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