I'm more of a fly guy so i hate to admit this but for easy pickins to start out with use some chicken liver. Apparently chicken liver smells like dead shad and hybreds(or wipers as we called them out west) will cruise the bottom looking for dead shad.

Finding them can be a bit harder but follow the shad and you will find them. If you get them in the jumps (especially big ones) you will be in heaven as you can throw just about anything out that looks shaddish but usually the smaller ones come up top for the busting and the bigger ones wait below cleaning up the wounded sinking shad without wasting much energy so if you want those ones then fish a deeper lure.

Now if you want some easy fishing for them you can go to taylorsville and launch from main dock and go straight out and your first path left there is a big hump out in the middle that runs from 7ft deep on and this is a big dinner table. At night you can go out and fish in about 7-8 ft of water & what I do is take an single octopus style hook and tie a fishermans knot in it but about 8 incnes up from the bottom and then on the bottom take a fairly big weight and tie it on below the hook. I do that to keep it out of snags and so when the fish bites and moves the hook the weight pulls it down and hooks them. Then slab on some chicken liver and drop it straight down to the bottom then keep line tight so you can raise and lower the rod and feel it hit bottom. I also have bait lights on transom of my goofy lil fishing boat and as i sit there the minnow come fast, then the shad then you start to see shad circling fast which usually means the hybreds are there. I also will move the bait around the boat from the light to the dark areas and moving it generates a lot of hits and the hybreds seem to like to sit on edge of light and hit it when it enters the dark area. You will also catch a lot of catfish this way. Usually if I don't have a bit within 2 minutes I move a bit and so on. Even if it's catfish biting because if catfish are there then there is food and hybreds will be to. BTW~ this is at night.

In the day you need to go deeper and they have been holding in about 15-17ft of water so find 21-0r 22 ft deep water and fish a few feet off bottom just find fish holding at 15ft on sonar and drop anchor.

On a fly I will find the school with liver then use a sinking line to get a clouser down there.