62 lb STRIPER

[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.