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hipkvw

12-22-2003, 01:20 AM

I got to fish with a few guys so i'll tell of 2 catches.

I went with Partnership and caught my first Drum and it was on the Jersey side. Maybe twenty pounds...just a baby. Thanbks Tommy!

I went out with Capt.Block flounder fishing. We caught +some flounder and a lot of schoolie stripers on lures in between the flounder bite. Saw a school of rays cruising and a sea turtle. Great day on the water. Thanks Steve.

THECHUMSTAIN

12-22-2003, 02:42 AM

I can't find my photo, yet 4 drum 2 90lbs and thre stripers to 30lbs from the pond. The jersey banana side of the pond in the day may I add. :D

design

12-22-2003, 11:57 AM

I know when I get a good day out, seems everyone else had a better one, but anyho, 2 days that stick out in my mind.

Bass'n in June, heaviest ever for me 44 or so lbs, but she still didn't cross the 50 mark :(

http://images.snapfish.com/3395333923232%7Ffp54%3Dot%3E2329%3D6%3A%3A%3D47%3C %3DXROQDF%3E2323484968289ot1lsi

The guy that took me there, with his 'smaller' fish, hoosier smile.gif

http://images.snapfish.com/3395333923232%7Ffp58%3Dot%3E2329%3D6%3A%3A%3D47%3C %3DXROQDF%3E232348496828%3Aot1lsi

And a great flounder day for 3 of us........

http://images.snapfish.com/3395333923232%7Ffp54%3Dot%3E2329%3D6%3A%3A%3D47%3C %3DXROQDF%3E23234849676%3A8ot1lsi

Must be in the genes......

http://images.snapfish.com/3395333923232%7Ffp58%3Dot%3E2329%3D6%3A%3A%3D47%3C %3DXROQDF%3E2323484968%3B86ot1lsi

Brian E. Mullaney

12-22-2003, 12:16 PM

Design - thats some good chit! That last pic is a classic!! :D

Striper101

12-22-2003, 06:37 PM

Don,
That just isn't right, not right at all! LOL! But I like it!

fshlot

12-22-2003, 08:05 PM

Don't know how to post pics..
But, it was the week after this years utsch's tourny(just my luck)...me and my buddy (hoggy style)anchored up and started CHUNKING...15mnts later "fsh on" 45in....15mnts go by "fsh on" a 50incher...had our limit in 45mnts (we didn't need to use our bonus tags that day)fsh were huge....we stayed and fshed for about 3 more hours...Final tally was 13 stripers all over 40in....we threw 3 back that were over 50+in...All realeased with TLC (hip)....That was a great day...who knows what we would have done if we stayed...I caught lots of stripers out there this year,but this day was phenominal.Couldn't believe the size of these fsh :eek: ....What A Great Year!!

Captblock

12-23-2003, 05:32 PM

Hip,
I thought the Delaware Bay was a boring place. :D Did you see the bald eagles coming out of the creek or did you forget to mention that? Every year we see the big sea turtles. It is kind of neat to see them pop their big head out of the water and blow air out their nose. I have been very lucky not to hook into one lately.

I had a good year striper fishing like many other fishermen in the bay. I was a little disappointed I did not get one in the high 40 inch range, although I had several in the 40 inch range. It was a pleasure to have several people on my boat catch their first striper this year. I had a good year flounder fishing with the biggest fluke going 26.5" and many in the 20" inch range.

May you all be blessed with bigger fish next year. Peace to all of you and may you all have a nice Christmas and a Happy New Year of fishing. Below are a few pictures I posted.

http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshots/MomentOfFame/l63736.jpg

13 year old Andrew with his first striper

http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshots/MomentOfFame/l63738.jpg

http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshots/MomentOfFame/m63740.jpg

[ 12-23-2003, 03:37 PM: Message edited by: Captblock ]

cee beaver

12-23-2003, 07:27 PM

the pic's are great.

i really enjoy seeing a kid hold up a big fish. i can remember many moons ago how excited i was

the beav :cool:

Partnership

12-23-2003, 10:22 PM

Keith:

Too many to pic just one.
What a year. Had a ball- fished with some great people. Almost called you tonite to see if you were going to play......had to close though.

Maybe next week.

hipkvw

12-24-2003, 12:02 AM

Originally posted by Partnership:
Keith:

Too many to pic just one.
What a year. Had a ball- fished with some great people. Almost called you tonite to see if you were going to play......had to close though.

Maybe next week. With this weather we could find something if the water would clean up a bit.

theREELmasterBAITER

12-24-2003, 02:27 PM

27 Stripers inside of about 3 hours. Had my Cuz Tommy (Partnership) Joe (Rodfather) and I believe Capt Block as witness's. It was pure pandamodium Just my dad and myself onboard and he was making me do the grunt of the work. At times I was setting hooks, putting it in the rocket launcher, then another, then another and my dad sat back and watched. I was tired when I got home. But I wouldn't trade that trip for anything in the world. It was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! :D :D

nightstalker22

12-24-2003, 09:18 PM

On a striper trip in November I was fishing in my normal/fav spot near the Maul with my friend Tom who had been skunked with me on the two prior trips earlier in the season. We had quite a wait until the tide turned around but when it did all Hell broke loose. We only boated the one striper. 34 incher...about 17-18 lbs early in the blitz and after that the blues moved in. We boated a couple and decided to use larger baits thinking they might have a better chance of getting through the blues to the bottom where the Stripers were...seemed like a good plan. To make a long story short...we ended up using 1/2 a bunker (not small ones either) per bait and the only thing that happened was we caught more....and bigger blue fish. We boated 10, and I bet we lost at least another 10 at the boat during the 3+ hour blitz. All were well over 10 lbs. Not the target species, but DAMN...it was some fun fishing...first time I have seen a blitz of blues that size in the bay.
Below is a picture of Tom and our catch that day.

http://home.comcast.net/~gjenne136964/stripers_files/image007.jpg

aquasport190

12-26-2003, 10:11 AM

On father's day we were having a slow day and we decided to try Reef #4 on our way back to Bowers Beach. The current was ripping and I couldn't anchor on the reef. I decided to just drift around it. About 5 minutes before we called it a day, I hooked a 32" weakfish and my dad netted it. We wasted a lot of time driving around looking for a place to get it weighed for a citation (tough on a Sunday night). Gave up on that idea. We don't need a citation to remember the father's day trout.

Scott Meier
The "Dan"Forth

wish2fish

12-26-2003, 11:41 AM

I would have to say (although it was a totally a**kicking fall) November when we laid into so many big hogs. I picked up my first 50/50 and released her. Got my friend on his biggest striper 45" and took a nice 42" home for supper. I know we all like to catch but the fishing was so intense that day that fish started getting hooked deep. So we agreed to pull anchor and head for home rather than harm anymore breeders.The feeling of good sportsmanship as we came up on Longreach felt better than any catch I could have had. (well other than the 50/50 :D )

'Stalker how could you have that many bluefish and your boats soooo clean? :confused: :D

CaptG

12-26-2003, 01:56 PM

The bay was good to us this year too :cool:

The fluke fishing was pretty good in the bay this year. Nonetheless, we still did most of our Fluke fishing out in the Ocean.

This pic is from one of those day's it was simply too nasty to make the run south so we fished the humps and ledges of the shipping channel in the bay betweeen 14 and 16 buoy for this catch.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid73/pbf560e790066936749273a36eedde303/fb6c5139.jpg

What made this day special was the $$ we spent on trolling valves for the Dauntless paid off. There was a strong Southerly wind against the outgoing tide for most the day, but we were able to troll up most of these fish, while most the other boats sat in one spot all day due to the stalemate wind and tide conditions.

Here's some pics from bass chunking in the bay this fall. We made 6 trips, had 2 double digit trips on big fish, 2 3 fish days, 1 2 fish day and one skunk. We chunked for the most part but did troll shad rigs on the last trip and picked up our only 2 slot fish of the year.

Me w/ a nice bass i decided to kill.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid88/p7650cbb59b9edf1874522d94ae73e2aa/fa94f5c0.jpg

My brother w/ his personal best 43" 33 lbs.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid85/p4aac22d1f7087668857f72dce73ce450/fac7a9a1.jpg

Barner Fish4Life's personal best 48" 40lb. class bass.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid88/p080d4dbc6d806ed5ffc843400db6cfc6/fa94f5c3.jpg

[ 12-26-2003, 12:12 PM: Message edited by: CaptG ]

nightstalker22

12-26-2003, 05:03 PM

Hey Wish2fish,

"'Stalker how could you have that many bluefish and your boats soooo clean?"

You should have seen it before we rinsed up prior to pulling anchor...looked like we slaughtered a hog in it. I LOVED it!!!

mako6950

12-26-2003, 09:35 PM

Keith,

Had many good days in the Bay this year, even when they were bad because I was out having fun with friends and family. Fished this year with Rodfather, Bawugna, Fishinphanatic, Capt. Block, Lunchman, Grimreaper, ShoreHooks, Rageboat on my boat.

Fished near CaptG., Joe M., ReelMasterBaiter & many other guys on several ocassions.

Had several good days on the Bay, in particular, on a beautiful Saturday in August, had double limits of fluke with CaptBlock and in early November had the biggest sriper come aboard my boat weighing in at 43# & 49", plus a 30# & 25#.

Also, I was up next to Rodfather when he nailed his 52"er this year & next to Rageboat when his son nailed his 1st. So I'd say it was a good year on the muddy pond. ;)

Tom

Captblock

12-27-2003, 03:10 PM

Tom,
The day I fished with you I learned a few things. Even though we took a beating and I was soaking wet we still had a good day with lots of blues and fluke. I never thought that day was going to be fishable. I was surprised using 14 oz. of weight I still could feel flounder on the other end of the line. I am not sure how fast we were drifting but it was like trolling for flounder. Goes to show you sometimes with tough conditions you still can catch fish. I still owe you a trip in the upper bay.

[ 12-27-2003, 01:16 PM: Message edited by: Captblock ]

FishnFever

12-28-2003, 07:40 PM

ONE MEMORABLE DAY FOR ME WAS ON JULY 4TH THIS SUMMER, FISHED UP BY THE ELBOW CAUSE I WAS PAYING ATTENTION TO ALOT OF THREADS HERE AND FIGURED I'D GIVE IT A SHOT. SURE ENOUGH IT WAS HOT AND FLAT THAT DAY AND I LIMITED OUT IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. I THINK AT ONE TIME I HAD 3 FLOUNDERS FLOPPIN AROUND ON THE DECK.I KNOW MY SON WAS A BIT TICKED CAUSE HE BAGGED THAT DAY. TURNS OUT THAT SPOT WAS GOOD ALL SUMMER. WISH I HAD MY CAMERA. FOUND A LOT OF GOOD SPOTS THIS YEAR. CAN'T WAIT TILL SPRING.OH BTW THE BIGGEST THAT DAY WAS 6.1 LBS.

Mega Bites

12-30-2003, 09:37 AM

This is one of the two that stuck with me this season with the other being my all time favorite the birth of Team THWACK-N-THUNK (http://www.thebassbarn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=005305#000000) ....LOL

Posted 11/11:

Finally got my x-neighbor Mike AKA/BassBarron out today for some rod bending fun. We used to fish together frequently but personal obligations have had him tied up lately. We headed out to the 20' around 7:30 with hopes that the approaching front would turn it on. We setup on the West edge and got the chunk going. For the remainder of the incomming...nada. At slack I positioned us a little more West and after the turn all hell broke loose. Keep in mind it's just Mike and myself with four rods out. Flurries of Stripers and Blues kept us real busy. At one point we both were hooked up and took turns with the camera while each fighting our own fish and laughing our arses off the whole time.

As my guest, I photoed Mike First:
http://www.cremsol.com/MegaBites/Striper111101.jpg
Then Mike reciprocated and took me:
http://www.cremsol.com/MegaBites/Striper111102.jpg
Mike proceeds to perform VooDoo on a Blue :D
http://www.cremsol.com/MegaBites/Striper111103.jpg
Hey SNichols....We even released a few today...LMAO
http://www.cremsol.com/MegaBites/Striper111104.jpg
Hope You had Fun Mike
http://www.cremsol.com/MegaBites/Striper111105.jpg
I know I did with this 43"
http://www.cremsol.com/MegaBites/Striper111106.jpg
We totaled 6 Striped ones keeping two trophy's, one slot and 6 Chompers in the 8 to 10lb. range. Mike and I both agreed to deidcate our fun day to a place we all know as......
http://www.cremsol.com/MegaBites/Striper111107.jpg

[ 12-30-2003, 08:20 AM: Message edited by: Mega Bites ]

Sea Devil

12-31-2003, 05:27 PM

Some of my best days were in november

november 4th myself and brother and nephew 11 bass up to 47 1/2 inches 31 lbs kept 3 all over 40 inches just to see my nephew catch his first 40 incher was beautiful

nov 22nd my b day only 1 striper caught by aka grimreaper but it was a beaut at 48 inches the biggest grim ever landed

end of november tongue.gif (margaritaville happy?? lol j/k )
spent a great day with bbunker and margaritaville on the bay with some nice fish caught margaritaville was high hook bbunker was a hoot next year bring more than just 3 dos equis!!!
got a great idea for a chumpot from margaritaville have made 3 for presents good luck with little one too born with fishing rod?

may or june a barnfest for flukeing with ronbo ll2 on board with grim shorehooks and many more in the back of wildwood i caught my best fluke ever a 8lb 4 oz monster with ronbo doing the netting on her thanks for a great year gang!!!!

[ 12-31-2003, 06:33 PM: Message edited by: Sea Devil ]

MargaritaVille

12-31-2003, 06:23 PM

SeaDevil,

I am a little upset that you didn't mention the day BBunker, you and I were on my boat. tongue.gif

That was one hell of a Day. We didn't kill them, but we had some nice ones.

snichols

12-31-2003, 07:10 PM

Originally posted by Mega Bites:
This is one of the two that stuck with me this season with the other being my all time favorite the birth of Team THWACK-N-THUNK (http://www.thebassbarn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=005305#000000) ....LOL

Mike,

That was definitely a day to remember. :D :eek:

MargaritaVille

12-31-2003, 08:01 PM

OK,
My 3 best days were all striper fishing.

11/26/2003 Fished with BBunker and SeaDevil.
We caught 5 stripers, one over 40" 3 @ 34" and one slot. Had a blast with these two guys. No pics to share.

11/2/2003 Fished with my Father (59) and GrandFather (93)
We only caught one that day, but it was caught by my grandfather. Here is the Pic
http://cossaboon.homeip.net/ven/images/pics/poppop.jpg

The last day was
10/26/2003 Fished with my Father and a kid from the neighborhood. (He has no father and his mom is in jail for robbery) We are trying to keep him out of trouble. Anyway, we caught 6 stripers that day, 2 slots, 1 over 35" and the other 3 were throwbacks

http://cossaboon.homeip.net/ven/images/pics/joey.jpg

FishnFever

12-31-2003, 09:50 PM

Hey Margaritaville, i really like your last day..gives me the goose bumps.The best thing you can do for a kid is take him fishhin'. A day he can forget about all the woes in life and just have an unforgettable time.Your the man. We need more good people like you in this world.

Happy New Year.

MargaritaVille

01-01-2004, 02:48 AM

FishnFever,
Thanks. I hope the kid makes out alright. My father has him almost ever weekend.
My dad took him out tonight and he got to witness the death of a deer with a muzzleloader. The kid is ready to hunt, but I am not sure I want him near a gun.

I pray that I have one more chance to take my Grandfather fishing. I would really like to get him on a Drumfish this year in the spring.

THECHUMSTAIN

01-01-2004, 11:30 PM

A few nice days in the pond on the Stain :D
http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshots/MomentOfFame/l64732.jpg

THECHUMSTAIN

01-01-2004, 11:32 PM

http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshots/MomentOfFame/l64734.jpg

THECHUMSTAIN

01-01-2004, 11:33 PM

http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshots/MomentOfFame/l64735.jpg

THECHUMSTAIN

01-01-2004, 11:35 PM

http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshots/MomentOfFame/l64733.jpg

mako6950

01-02-2004, 12:22 AM

Stain,

They don't count, they were caught on the Delaware side. :D

Moses

BIGGESTJACK

01-02-2004, 01:07 AM

IMHO---THEY WERE ALL CAUGHT ON THE JERSEY SIDE BY ABOUT 3 OR 4 MILES.

High Wire

01-02-2004, 08:59 AM

Here is a 26" 6.5lb flattie my daughter caught from around the 19 buoy in August 02, 2003. Caught 8 other keepers. It was a great day. Capt G, Cyclops, and Silent A all around.
http://users.rcn.com/highwire/Images/Misc/ag16-020.jpg

[ 01-02-2004, 07:15 AM: Message edited by: High Wire ]

hipkvw

01-02-2004, 01:39 PM

Great Pics guys!

MegaBites...The back of your boat is sweet!

High Wire, How old is your daughter?? Just kidding ;) Nice Flatty.

Capt G, Nice pics. Love all the flounder. My Mom would adopt you if she saw that. You too Design.

M'Ville, I wish my Grandpop was still around. He was the fisherman in my family. That is really great! I hope you can get him out some more.

This turned out to be a great thread so far.