Block Island Strippers 9-3-11

[bassarama]

Despite rough seas for the evening of 9-3, I became one of a four guy team to hop on my neighbor's 42 foot lobster boat in Rhode Island. The plan was to steam out to Block Island for a night at the Strippers club...not what you're thinking, I said strippers!
Long story short, slow pick at the big ones, we caught 19 strippers in the mid 30 lbs range with one tipping at 47lbs for my new personal best.

All fish were caught on live eels, set on a 7/0 hooks and 6 foot fluorocarbon leaders on a 10 oz slidding rig. Awesome night out with a new (to me) group of guys.

Besides us, there was another small boat ou there too, in the rough cathing big strippers, their boat was a very stable 21 footer w/ a 200 hp four stroker. I wished my V20 was that stable.

Here's a pic of my 47 lbs stripper;

[lumberslinger178]

Nice beast there cant wait for them to get here. Congrats

[willy]

Very nice

[THEFERMANATOR]

Nice fish, but I have to be honest it was the word striPPers in the title that got my attention.

[garagenc]

Congratulations. Real nice fish.

[Shawsee]

Nice catch! We fish the Block at night and it's a blast. Same set-ups you used and we catch quite a few good size ones also. Were you guys fishing the "Peanut" on the Southwest Ledge? We fish there in my V20 between the Block & Montauk. Gets rough but the V handles it pretty darn good. At night it gets hairy when there are alot of boats out there drifting, but it's managable. Gotta love the Block!

[Stinky_Hooker]

Very nice!!!