"alwaysfishking" wrote in message
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beautiful striper

Thanks. She took a while to drag up from 44 ft. And our rigs were
triple-home-made types that had 32oz, 24, oz and 16 oz baits on it all at
once. This fish was on the bottom, 32oz "jig head" (our pseudo-guide called
them "mojos" with swimming soft bait bodies that went from about 6" in
length, to about a foot long on the 24 and 32 oz heads). It didn't take long
to see why we were using such heavy line (50lb line, 100lb shock leader) and
heavy ocean trolling rods and reels...our rigs weighed 4.5 lbs without a
fish on them, lol!

We caught 7 striped bass (from 18lbs to this monstor) before the blues
turned on. We boated about 25 of those, and didn't keep a single one. Good
fighters, but apparently not that good to eat, so we let 'em live. We only
kept 2 of the bass, this big'un and another that went about 22lbs, just to
split up among us Sunday before we came home.


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"SimRacer" wrote in message
nk.net...
With the continuing "relatively nice for the time" weather we've had
here
in NC, me and a fishing buddy linked up and went out to the OBX to get
in
on some of this winter Striped Bass fishing we've been hearing so much
of
the past few years. We went out this past Saturday (Dec 31) off Hatteras
Island (NC) out of Oregon Inlet and managed to catch a few really nice
stripers. There were a ton of folks on the water, I was even surprised
at
the amount of charter boats we saw out there chasing these winter bass.
The "3 mile line" kept us all clumped up along the various stretches of
shore from Kitty Hawk/Duck NC past Oregon Inlet and the Bodie Island
Lighthouse all the way South to Hatteras Village and the lighthouse
itself. So we just jumped into the trolling line that was more like a
fleet by mid morning, and all "followed the birds" looking for schools
of
bait fish.

We caught this particular striper about 10 miles North of the Hatteras
Lighthouse, about 2 miles off the beach:
(this is my buddy in the photos, he reeled her in, so we gave him the
glory)

http://home.earthlink.net/~simracer5...b_striper5.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~simracer5...b_striper1.jpg

We had her certified for a state citation when we got back in, which is
35lbs here in NC. Weighed 42 lbs on the dot according to the
"official/certified" scales at the tackle shop. Our best rough
measurements were 45" long, 28" girth. Nowhere near the *rumored* new
record set this past week during a tournament of over 60 lbs, which was
the record from 1971 until this past week if said rumor is true. (We
heard
several weights through the rumor mill; 62, 63 and 65 pounds, so
apparentlly a large one above 60 lbs was caught)

Hope everyone here at rofb had enjoyable holidays.