Fishing Report from Joe Filice June 23 & 24, 2013

Posted on June 23, 2013 by VHFC

I took my Grandson, Tyler 12 yrs, at 6:30 in Beach Haven. I put out a bunker head and had Tyler cast clam into the trough. At approx 7:30′ Tyler’s rod doubled over and he set the hook. The fish ran straight into the jetty rocks. I took the rod, opened the bail and let out a good amount of line and waited a minute. I then took up the slack and found the fish again out and running south. Tyler took over and landed the below Stripers that weighed in at 16.5 lbs and 38″.

 On Monday I took my 6yr old grandson, Ben, to Green Lane Resevoir in Pa. started out rowing and trolling minnows for pan fish. Ben landed a dozen small white perch and a 13″ largemouth bass. Once he felt a bass on the line he wanted to fish for bass. I riggedvhim up with a Texas rig. He looked in my box and picked out a sluggo, which I rigged weedless and we started pounding downed trees in 2-3 feet and water temp of 80. I fished a wacky rigged yum dinger and hooked two respectable bass that I let Ben reel in. Ben, doing his own casting laid his sluggo in the crook of a downed tree and hooked up to a large bass. It was a blast watching him fight it and yelling “HOLY COW, HOLY COW”!!!! Below is our stringer. The big one I’m holding out was Ben’s fish. What a joy to see these kids having so much fun fishing

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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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