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Offline Joe

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Wife's First Striped Bass
« on: May 01, 2006, 09:25:12 AM »
Took the wife out to the Delaware River Yesterday to do some Striper fishing, took a little while to find the bait, but once we saw some guys catching them we snuck over and caught about a dozen in 10 minutes.
 Then we headed down river to a spot where I did good last year (25 lber) and nothing, so I moved to one other spot I had, we through out our live herring on a Carolina rig set up and sort of freelined them. About a 1/2 hour and line starts peeling of my reel, I let him run for  a few seconds, closed the bail and it was on, I fought it for a few seconds then turned it over to the wife, After a while she wanted to give it back I said no way it's yours, this thing fought like mad, plus there isa  very strong current. I netted it and got it in the boat, Ended up weighing 13.5 lbs. Not one of the monsters in there but a good fish. Had oner other run but missed on the set, pulled the fish out of it's mouth. 
Here's her first striper


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Re: Wife's First Striped Bass
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2006, 09:40:10 AM »
Good to see she caught a monster.  So did she out fish you?
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Re: Wife's First Striped Bass
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2006, 09:42:45 AM »
Not really I let her so I  didn't feel bad, then she felt bad because I let her reel in my fish and that was the only one...ahhh  Women.
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Re: Wife's First Striped Bass
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2006, 10:05:30 AM »
I wish we had stripers here that big close without driving 4 hrs.  I would love to hook into one of those like that.
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Re: Wife's First Striped Bass
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2006, 10:06:57 AM »
Wow, that's a heck of a first stripper :o My one and only was ~5lbs. Tell her congrats!!
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Re: Wife's First Striped Bass
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2006, 10:11:46 AM »
I got this one last year, bottomed out the scale at 25 lbs

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Re: Wife's First Striped Bass
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2006, 10:21:13 AM »
awesome fish joe! those are huge.
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Re: Wife's First Striped Bass
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2006, 10:27:16 AM »
E, we need to go up to the river and catch a few of those.   Not sure when the right time of year is though around here although I have caught smaller ones throughout the year.
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Re: Wife's First Striped Bass
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2006, 01:04:54 PM »
That's a nice one your wife caught Joe ;)
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Re: Wife's First Striped Bass
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2006, 04:18:23 PM »
Wow, those are some nice Stripes!   :o   Sure would like to hook one that size. 
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Re: Wife's First Striped Bass
« Reply #10 on: May 01, 2006, 07:13:12 PM »
WTG Joe and Mrs. Joe!!!

There are Stripers nearby but I've never hooked into one.  Probably fall overboard if I ever did :o!

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Re: Wife's First Striped Bass
« Reply #11 on: May 01, 2006, 09:00:28 PM »
Very nice fish she got right there. Tell that young lady I said congrats on landing her a good'en. Nice fish you got as well. I bet that thing put up a good fight.
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Re: Wife's First Striped Bass
« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2006, 01:03:57 AM »
That is totally awesome, Joe! Consider yourself blessed to have a wife willing to fish with you. :bow
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Re: Wife's First Striped Bass
« Reply #13 on: May 02, 2006, 01:58:36 PM »
That is sweet!! Stripers are fun to catch!! Congratulations!!
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Re: Wife's First Striped Bass
« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2006, 07:20:32 AM »
Very nice. I remember my first stripped bass back in NJ.
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