Theyll actually get up to 5', just takes a while. They do "speed-grow" to 3' though as stated.Not ready for a beast like that just yet. Thanks for the info guys.
Biggest ive seen in person were 42 or 44" on the tape measure...far cry from 5'. These hybrids belonged to Ted (anythingfish) and rode cross country in a box truck to cleveland Ohio complements of Bigrich545. Rich is a stickler for measurements and this is 100% accurate as he takes every fish out and measures for documentation. He once almost declined a bass i sold him at 18" because it was in fact 16.5" on the tape lol... Necro also had a rather large hybrid but not 5'.... its a feat in itself to grow one of these hybrids over 30" and you need alot of space and time to do so. 24" is not 3' lol...As stated above.
Dive, not digging under you but can you point to evidence of 5', how ever soft or hard? For my education.