Stripers 25 miles out North Carolina

[Capt Sal]

Some of the Jersey boys found the bass 25 off in NC.From what they told me Virginia was horrible and they worked it down South more.Change in the migration?You bet ya!!!!!!!!Probably happens here with the main body of bass passing us by.They landed over a hundred a day tagging for the state of North Carolina.It is illegal to target them past the 3 mile line even playing catch and release.Many over 50lbs and the biggest at 74lbs. all tagged and released.Many the striper population is better than estimated there just in a different area.

[Captain Rich]

Here's a link to the original post with photos




http://www.fishmidnightsun.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1481

Enjoy !

[fishguy]

So maybe all the crybabies that had a sub-par Fall were wrong. The "meat men" haven't wiped out all the stripers after all. :rolleyes:

[arat]

Wow amazing fish. How do I get on a trip like that. Catch and release of those fish....... that's what dreams are made of!!

[rumster]

Here's a link to the original post with photos




http://www.fishmidnightsun.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1481

Enjoy !

That was incredible! Thanks so much.

[chrislars]

what????? those are huge fish!! i'm not surprised they are staying off shore! less boat and fishing pressure and i still think the waters are full of chemicals, run-offs, sewage, degrading plastics and other crap in the water and who knows what else from Sandy. I think the stuff in the bay is still filtering out forcing the bass, and bait off-shore. i wish they could tag these fish with satellite tags so they could follow the actual migration to see the pattern

[tombanjo]

Wow! Thanks for posting that. So caught up in this awful winter, it's nice to get the daydream machine going again. The birds alone would have been enough to get my juices flowing but holy shit, those fish are AWSOME!

[Andreas Toy]

insane

[gjb1969]

just wow!!!

[Capt Sal]

Thanks for the link Capt Rich!!!THIS IS WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO HAVE THE BUNKER INSHORE.:cool:

[SplitShot]

FINALLY!!! No Drama and Great Pics!! Thank you so much for those!!!:)

[HDMarc]

What an epic trip, those fish were HUGE!! Love seeing the gannets working the top:)

[sternline]

Those great pictures show what we know. Stripers mainly follow menhaden. That's a classic bunker feeding frenzy. These big fish passed us by in the fall because we didn't have the bunkers. If we want the stripers, we need to get rid of Omega Protein.

[CatchEmUp]

That is unbelievable! Nice to see some large linesiders

[SaltLife1980]

Thats just wild!! Awesome pictures.. Some real slobs there!! 74# is a monster!!

[Bass_Appeal]

some lumpty bass in that squad

[Capt Sal]

I hope we see the big ones this spring. Big bass eat bunker and will stay way out to gorge on them. West wind and water temp are the key. This is Ocean Side,Raritan Bay is a horse of a different color.

[O'Connor]

Cap...when you say 25 miles out...are you talking 25 miles from the dock or implying 25 miles(give or take) east of the beach? The recorder says 78 feet of water....I know some areas around the outer banks are shoal...but damn...78 feet of water? I bet they are well inside of 15 miles...and even during the leanest years there were isolated off the charts catches of big striped bass. I remember reading a story by tim coleman of the fisherman who talked about what was potentially the greatest striped bass run in history...this occurred in 1988 from the surf in block island. 40-60's for three weeks straight. from what I understand nobody else had crapola for bass during that time.

just thinking out loud and offering some discussion points.

[stevejordan]

link stopped working

[Reel Class]

those fish go where the bait goes

everything is cyclical, including migrations, fish stocks, etc.

I'm surprised to see some of the guys on here "surprised" about this... this only goes to prove the "science" surrounding fisheries management is outdated and obsolete - this is REAL data about bass!

[jerseyhunter]

I can't get the link to work either.

[Matt116]

Link isn't working for me either.

[Fisherman120]

Feds probably got to them.

[RussA]

Guys working with Biologist in tagging stripers 25 miles out off NC. They showed pictures of multiple fish over 50lbs and on at 74lbs all tagged and released...

That was the short version... :)

[dakota560]

Absolutely great video! Can't help however thinking about how many huge bass are killed every year by the bunker boats for the same reason. These big fish as said follow schools of bunker and what do you think happens when these bunker boats set their nets and trap everything and anything under the schools. Can you imagine if a few commercial guys were working that school how many huge bass would have been by catch.

Dakota

[O'Connor]

Guys working with Biologist in tagging stripers 25 miles out off NC. They showed pictures of multiple fish over 50lbs and on at 74lbs all tagged and released...

That was the short version... :)



I still do not see how they could have been 25 miles off the beach in North Carolina, but only in 78 feet of water. Do you know what part of the coast they were fishing out of? Would love to see a chart showing that water depth @ the 20 or 30 mile line. I think they were 25 miles from the dock, but not far east of the beach. When I fished out of Virginia Beach for bass we ran 30 down and were about two out. I do not doubt they were outside the 3 mile legal zone, but that water depth seems way to shallow to be out 20 or 25.

[Capt Sal]

I still do not see how they could have been 25 miles off the beach in North Carolina, but only in 78 feet of water. Do you know what part of the coast they were fishing out of? Would love to see a chart showing that water depth @ the 20 or 30 mile line. I think they were 25 miles from the dock, but not far east of the beach. When I fished out of Virginia Beach for bass we ran 30 down and were about two out. I do not doubt they were outside the 3 mile legal zone, but that water depth seems way to shallow to be out 20 or 25.

Give or take a few they were not close to shore. Point is they were in Federal Waters and the bass were on the bunker. Makes me wonder how many bass pass off shore of us in NJ.:eek::eek::eek:

[Michael82929]

Big pods of striped bass pass us by every spring.. We need the right conditions for them to come close

- Water temps
- Winds
- Tides
- Feed

Bass travel on tides real quick and come to a dinner bell from long distances to get their chew on... It's not a coincidence that you're running the grounds in the afternoon and see a blank screen and all of a sudden a light switch turns on

[Super]

...the striper population is better than estimated there just in a different area.

It's good news, for sure. However, I don't think it’s wise to come to any conclusions about the striper population based on one boat on one school of fish.