Improved Fishing at the Northern Reefs by Larry Leary

Posted on August 5, 2019 by VHFC

Looks like things are improving on the fishing front. Brian took Tyler, Carter and friend Ryan north this morning. They had 4 keepers and a bunch of shorts.Tyler & Ryan proudly display their keepers in the photo. Tyler is also shown holding the largest fish – his 5-1/2 lb fluke caught on Gulp.
In addition, they had 10 cocktail blues, 3 Spanish Mackerel, a Chub Mackerel and a rudder fish. Nice variety of fish today but nothing was weighed in. Tyler said there will be bigger ones later this month. Hope he’s right.

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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.

There’s something fishy about beer these days. Fish Tail Ale is popular as ever, and New Jersey’s Flying Fish Brewery is one of the state’s largest specialty breweries. There’s also Washington’s Wild Salmon Organic Pale Ale, Florida’s Land Shark beer, Delaware’s Dogfish Head beer, and two versions of Stingray beer—a lighter version from the Cayman Islands and a dark beer from Canada.

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