Thanks Willy,
I just looked it up. 12.5 inches. It was definitely bigger than that as I was thinking 16 (but that was head to tippy tail). I should have kept more...
I wonder than what those other black fish I was catching last year were.
Ok, so I went fishing today. Landed a handfull of non keeper stripers, a bunch of small tautogs (no keepers)...otherwise it was a "nice", windy, choppy, misty, cloudy cool day out there...stills tons of other boats out there too.
rkc