62 lb STRIPER

[reelapeelin]

Just opened new Salt Water Fishing mag...guy from Mich., never caught a striper in his life, visits charter-fish buddy in Nags Head...1st fish to the boat...NC pending record...Oh, the pain...the pain... ;) ;D ;D...

[macojoe]

Beginers luck!! Man do I wish I had some!!

[willy]

Went Fulking ;D with my friends, 10 shorts for every keeper, take my wife (super model #1 ) fulking, goes once every 5 years wether she needs it or not, every fulk at least three inches over limit. Limited out for both of us in half an hour. ::)

[Blue_Runner]

That's the day my wife and I were there fishing and she caught a 30 lber. We only went half as far south as they did.
There were lots of boats going south and I just kept running because I never saw a reason to stop," Bronson said. "Finally, we were down off of Avon and I saw some birds start diving, so I turned and ran to them and in just a minute or two we had three fish on."

Two of the fish were nice stripers in the mid 30 pound range. The third was the huge rockfish reeled in by Hiebert.

I could not believe what I was seeing when the fish came up," Bronson said. "It was a struggle to pull it over the side and into the boat. The fish was huge!"

The record striper hit a green and white Mojo lure, which Bronson had custom rigged. The reel was a Penn International, spooled with Berkley Big Game fishing line and mounted on a Penn Standup rod.

It was over six hours later, after fishing a while longer and landing another fish around 35 pounds, before Hiebert and Bronson carried the huge fish to the scales at the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center Weigh Station.

Had they not waited over 6 hours, he might have went closer to 65 lbs! Also, I'm pretty sure its in the books, no longer pending. But I could be mistaken.
http://www.northcarolinasportsman.com/news/2006/January/images/nc-record-striper.jpg

[Blue_Runner]

This is the story of the world record striper - 78.8 lbs.
It truly is must read for any aspiring record holder. The message I get out of it is - KEEP YOUR DANG MOUTH SHUT!

Its a pretty long read. Be sure to read part one and part two (links at bottom) after opening this link. Awesome story. Would make a spectacular movie IMO.
http://www.stripers247.com/Almcreynoldsrecordstriper.htm

[reelapeelin]

Thanks, BR...started readin'...could not stop!!... ;)...

[TheTinMan]

every fulk at least three inches over limit. ::)

Willy, ever think of making adult movies?
:o ;D

[Blue_Runner]

Me too RAP....even sent it to the wife and she cursed at me for not letting her know it was so long!! ::)

Would that be a great movie or what? :D

[reelapeelin]

Yeah...it'd be a REAL tear-jerker alright... :'(...wish there had been someone around to help him manage that 250 LARGE...w/his luck, THAT person woulda ripped him off!!!... :o ::)...

Wish they would NAME all the tackle companies that promised (even verbaly) then didn't deliver...Penn sounds like one of 'em... :(...

Wonder where that skin mount is?? ???...

One more thing...several years back, I remember readin' about a HUGE striper, came in w/a commercial haul...had been headed and gutted...somebody w/some sense saw it, called in state biologists...they estimated that fish, while still alive weighed 147lbs :o

[willy]

One day I'm fishing along the wall at the Manasquan river inlet, I see a guy come to the wall dressed in camo colored neoprene suit carrying a float basket and spear gun. Climbs down the rocks right in front of me, puts on flippers mask and snorkel and slides into the water. Swims out to where the rock wall ends, I see him pop up once in awhile and he pulling this floating basket on a rope behind him. All of a sudden he comes up quick swims to the rocks pulling his basket and gun, pulls out a stiper just like the one in that picture flapping around crazy with a nasty stick right thru it. The guy says they are lined up in the hole down there all the time. Said he shot the only one he could get a shot at there were bigger down there. Apparently he didn't care about any fishing records never bothered to weigh them but I'll tel you every fisherman on the wall was absolutely dumbfounded including yours truly because I have seen the record fish in the bait shops when they were brought in for checking and they were babies next to what that spear fisherman pulled out on a rope. :o

[reelapeelin]

Similar experience: bottom-fishin' 90'...pickin' up some nice grouper & red snapper...before we leave, a guy on the boat had brought tanks, speargun, etc. for a dive...comes back w/ fish that DWARF what we'd been catchin' on line... :o...did 2nd trip w/same guy w/same results!!... ;D...

Moral of storys, Willy's and mine...smarter fish don't fall for hook and line...they just get BIGGER!!... ;D...

[willy]

I talked with that spear gun guy Rap. He said those fish are huge cows and they are stacked up in the deep holes every day and they never leave. But no one is catching them. And they are literally within casting distance of the jetty

[Blue_Runner]

I know at Hatteras Inlet about 2 years ago some netters caught one over 80 and in the same haul had one close to 60.

[reelapeelin]

They're pretty healthy size in Lake Hartwell down here, too...several years back, a friend found one floating on the surface, near dead, but still tryin' to tail some...I personally put it on a 55 lb scale...which INSTANTLY bottomed out...and since then, another fish from that lake was weighed at 62 lbs... ;) ;D...