Conference wahoo::fishing

    
    I just checked the Mass 1990 abstracts, and largemouths are 7 lbs. 8
    oz., and smallies are 4lbs. 8 oz.
    
    Ray  

    ...not sure what info the abstracts contain, but I'm wondering what
    the minimum size for striped bass is this year. 
    
    /MArk
    

    
    33 inches and holding. My father caught a few schoolies in the Cape Cod
    canal last year. You have to fish the slack tide though, otherwise the
    current strip and snags your rigs.
    
    For the record...I'm glad to see the increased limits on the ocean
    beauties. I can remember picking up two or three in an evening from
    shore...Oh the good'ole days...sigh.
    
    Theo

    I live in Newbury MA. (Plum Island Territory) where schoolies are
    abundant but the big boys are few. I was in SurfLand tackle shop
    last week and they have a whole lota pictures of fishermen standing
    next to their big catch....some Strippers in excess of 50lbs. which
    appear wellll beyond 36". I bought a book about striped bass fishing.
    I'm convinced the big ones are far and few between....but can be
    had if you're willing to put in the TIME. Lots of it. Living within
    4 miles of the island, I'm gonna make a serious attempt at fishing
    for these beautys this season. To catch a Stripper well beyond the
    minimum size would satisfy me for a good long time...besides, my
    fish story (picture) would hang in the tackle shop.
    
    /MArk

>    next to their big catch....some Strippers in excess of 50lbs. which
>    for these beautys this season. To catch a Stripper well beyond the
>    
>    /MArk


I would think most strippers would weigh more than 50lbs, even with their 
clothes ON.

    I get kinda excited when I think about catchin' these strippers
    off the island....especially when I see all those pictures at the 
    tackle shop.
    
    At the risk of over estimating their size and sounding like I was full 
    of S*&T! ..I under stated the weight.
    
    One bit of info I did gather was that most of the people who have
    landed the big ones off Plum Island are using live eels. Eels are
    easily caught using traps up river just the night before you head
    out.
    
    /MArk
    

    They have pictures of strippers at the tackle shop? Most places just
    have fish!
    
    

    
    Yo,
    
         The legal limit for stippers in mass. is 36" not 33" as stated
    in an earlier reply. To catch the BIG strippers you need to use
    BIG baits. We fish them heavy off of Race point and a few other
    spots on the cape and I found that eels 18" or better will bring
    out the monsters! Just for the record I learned this from a guy
    who's son caught the current mass recond back in 1982. The fish
    weighed in at 72lbs. Not to bad. I also found that the really big
    fish are most easily caught at night ( Midnight to 5:00 am) later
    in the year say last two weeks of October into Nov. The record was
    caught on Nov. 2, 1982. I see that picture of that fish everytime
    I enter my favorite tackle shop in Wellfleet.
    
    Well good luck there are some monsters out there just waiting to
    snap your 40lb test!!
    
    Wildman
    

    re .5
    
    (I think it went right by 'em, Tim)
    

    i think the limit for strippers is 18 correct me if i'm wrong..
    
    
    Jim.

    Your corrected, it is 36"! :-)

    let me correct it: for strippers they must be 18 yrs. old.
    
    
    get it...
    
    Jim.

    Ya I get it. Do you still need a big bait to attract them?
    
    Big Dick

    which ones are we attracting...
    
    j.