LAST YEARS BASS FISHING

[Lizzie_B]

Was very good. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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Tasted very good too /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[jb2006]

What a monster - but are you sure it isn't a grey mullet ?

Allegedly Peter Stringfellow has a grey mullet

 

[Lizzie_B]

/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gifThey are all different fish - we caught 17 in total that day. all within a few pounds of each other. One fillet fed 8 of us from the BBQ with plenty left over.

Yes- definitely striped bass. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[TheBoatman]

Gezzs Lizzie
That rod looks at 30lb test and the Penn reel looks like it could handle a large shark of a 50lb CQR anchor.

Did the critters stand a chance?

Nice fish by the way - well done.

Peter.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Is that a...

...chastity belt?

 

[stevebirch2002]

If it's the Solent then I must be using the wrong bait!!!

 

[tangomoon]

What was the bait?

 

[Lizzie_B]

Big white lumps of rubbery plastic!

 

[Robin]

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Big white lumps of rubbery plastic!

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Did they buzz or just the plain ones? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Lizzie_B]

No buzz. Just very roughly fish shaped -about the size of a sardine.
You can see them in the background of the last picture below the right end of the fish

 

[Cornishman]

Did you put a reef in the mainsail while fishing? Or are you in the wrong forum?

 

[Robin]

I think my humour was lost in translation.... I was referring to rubbery things that (I'm told) sometimes buzz.

But looking at the pic, I think these are called 'shads' maybe?

In my copy of Rick Steins fish cookbook (sad I know it) he does liken the USA striped bass and the mullet and they do look like mullet but rather bigger than our native ones!

I assume you caught these off the Chesapeake somewhere, is it far out or close to Coan River?

 

[Lizzie_B]

/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gifWe were based in Coan River at the time, but actually were fishing just south of the Patuxent River entrance, but well over to the east side near Hooper Island light.

We'd been sanding down prior to repainting The Goose, so thought we'd accept the offer to go out for a couple of hours on a friend's boat when he'd finished work for the day. It was the day the last bit of blue paint was removed /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Left Coan River bout 3 back by 6.30 We were only fishing for about an hour and a half.
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[Bejasus]

ooh, we once did that with a blue hulled mobo too. Well swmbo says she did it. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[DaveS]

The third piccie looks like a still from Braveheart!

 

[Robin]

Yes I think I would take a break from that job too!

 

[Lizzie_B]

Specially in temps of 80+ degrees F and high humidity. Needless to say what cooking we did was on the marina BBQ.

Still it was all worth it when the end result was this.
They worked cheap too. Their first 'commision' on leaving art college. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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[Achillesheel]

Worked till they were blue in the face, seemingly.