Typically hybrids are an open water scavenger and typical bass techniqes of fishing shore structure don't work. I have never caught a hybrid at Barren within 50 feet of the shore. Big ones are normally found near the dam or in the straight between the two islands between the state park and the narrows. I have never fished the spring patteren, juss summer, so it may change in the spring, I dont know. I know they have a "spawning run", albeit hybrids lack the ability to produce offspring.