Banner Day for Marty & the Gang

Posted on August 12, 2017 by VHFC

Marty Friedrich had the gang out on August 10th. We hopped around a few wrecks ending up at the Garden State South to finish the day. We had 10 keepers including a 61/2 lb and two 5 pounders. Most of the other fish were 19 to 22 inches along with a lot of shorts and sea robins. We were using Gulp and Flounder belly with the big one caught on meat. I personally did not catch any of the big ones!

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Of the fifty United States, thirty-eight have a striped-bass record. New Jersey has the largest striped-bass record—a 78-pound 8·ounce whopper that was caught in 1982. The state with the smallest striped-bass record is Iowa. That landlocked striper weighed only 9 pounds 4 ounces and was caught in 1983.

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