My other passion is ocean fishing, went down to cape cod this weekend. My cousin took me fishing on the canal, this gal payed me a visit. I have caught a few micros from the beach but this was my first actual fish. Just shy of 30lbs. My tape measure was broken unfortunately because I'm sure it breaks my personal best. Any other striper fishermen? Pics?
I love Striper Fishing, Just don't get to do it living in Ohio. Here's a few pictures from my boys in Jersey last year.
Sure do here. I haven't been out this year, but I will I a few weeks. Mostly spring and fall run fishing. I use different methods from cut bait, fly fishing, trolling tube and worm rigs and topwater poppers. I'm 1/2 hour from the ocean and 10 minutes from a brackish estuary. All catch and release here. I don't have many pics as I head out by myself.
I have never fly fished but I bet a striper on a fly rod is crazy. My folks just relocated to South Yarmouth. I'm dertermined to get one in the Bass river out of a kayak. Nantucket sleigh ride!
Ah, just schoolies on the fly rod when they are in thick. I have a lot of backing and disc drags on the reels though.
Awesome fish, The lake I fish in don't have stripers but it has white bass and hybrids. some of the hybrids get pretty big. Last trip I only caught four lost two big ones, last one bent my hook to get off.
The local news just had a video of someone recently reeling in a striper on a boat and a great white shark took it and jumped clear out of the water about 20 feet behind the boat.
Been there. Hopefully it missed the bone. Nice fish. We have potential to catch some large freshwater fish here in nh it's few and far between. Some hybrid bass would be fun, but I'm sure it would have a negative impact on native or what's left of native populations
It went in pretty deep, I tried to pull it out for about thirty minutes and got it hurting . I gave up and went to the ER. I felt like an idiot going in there, but this hospital is by the lake and they said we see this all the time. Took three hours to get in and get it out. it was starting to hurt good by then.
Funny how it comes out of the fish so easy but you will never pull it out of your flesh. If your lucky you can push it through and cut the barb off. Either way I hope you have medicated yourself
That was about a month ago, he deadened my hand and had to cut it out. you can't even see a scar there now. I couldn't push it back through cause it went straight down in the finger and I couldn't pull it our far enough to push it back through the skin. by that time I probably couldn't have done it without some pain killer anyway.
Yeah that stinks. Another story for the fire pit. By your other post it looks like it hasn't slowed you down
Fun catching them, for sure. Great video Fishing boat catches spectacular video of shark breaching off Cape Cod Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
Been there, done that! Not fun! I drove myself the the ER (stick shift with the hook in my right thumb) to get my treble hook out. The lady at the front desk almost fainted lol. They numbed it, cut the barb off the rest of the hook and used a pair of pliers to make the barb do a u-turn through the meat of my thumb. Now i know what to do in case it happens again lol.
I had one exactly like that. I did the rope on the hook and pull method. First pull it didn't come out and I almost threw up. After a little more building myself up, pulled it out. It hurt surprisingly little afterwards and my 14yr old son thought it was hilarious.
