I was wondering if the fish in question could have been introduced through the water being pumped up from the housy as a fry or juvenile as it's been assumed that's how the Northerns in C-wood have gotten there. Personally, I think it's legit, after all we do have mt. lions all over the place.

Just out of curiosity how many of you would like it if the DEEP started a hybrid stocking program in one of the bigger freshwater lakes here in ct, obviously one with some current or moving water which would take cwood off that list. Personally I think it would be pretty cool and a stocking effort that not only would be fun but would also work and be very effective in the right body of water.

I'm not saying that it will ever happen, I just think it would be far more effective than much of the trout salmon and walleye programs they've already set up. I totally agree with you on the musky, I'm not really a toothy critter fisherman but musky would be pretty rad, I'd like hybrids more though. one can dream lol

Why do you keep saying hybrids?

Landlocked striped bass[edit]
Striped bass are an anadromous fish, so their spawning ritual of traveling up rivers to spawn led some of them to become landlocked during lake dam constructions. The first area where they became landlocked was documented to be in the Santee-Cooper River during the construction of the two dams that impounded Lakes Moultrie and Marion, and because of this, the state game fish of South Carolina is the striped bass.[20]

Recently, biologists came to believe that striped bass stayed in rivers for long periods of time, with some not returning to sea unless temperature changes forced migration. Once fishermen and biologists caught on to rising striped bass populations, many state natural resources departments started stocking striped bass in local lakes. Striped bass still continue the natural spawn run in freshwater lakes, traveling up river and blocked at the next dam, which is why they are landlocked. Landlocked stripers have a hard time reproducing naturally, and one of the few and most successful rivers they have been documented reproducing successfully is the Coosa River in Alabama and Georgia.[21]

A 70.6-lb (32.0-kg) landlocked bass was caught in February 2013 by James Bramlett on the Warrior River in Alabama, a current world record.[22] This fish had a length of 44 inches (112 cm) and a girth of 37.75 inches (96 cm).

One of the only landlocked striped bass populations in Canada is located in the Grand Lake, Nova Scotia. They migrate out in early April into the Shubencadie River to spawn. These bass also spawn in the Stewiacke River (a tributary of the Shubencadie). The Shubencadie River system is one of five known spawning areas in Canada for striped bass, with the others being the St. Lawerence River, Miramichi River, Saint John River, Annapolis River and Shubencadie/Stewiacke Rivers.[23]