My 1st Sea Bass Trip by Marty Friedrich

Posted on May 17, 2020 by kelli

Well the weather man was wrong again! An east wind blowing 10 to 15 made for a rough ride out to LE reef and not much better once there. You could count the boats on one hand all day long. I was not seeing many fish on on my machine and no bites but then I got my first legal fish. Everyone says the reefs are loaded but you can’t prove it by me!

About an 1 1/2 hour later, I tried one more spot with tanks that had fish on them. I got the big one, had several hang ups and lost rigs. I headed for the bay and fished another hour for 2 blowfish. It was a rough but good day!

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Fishing Facts

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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