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After doing pretty well last evening, Benjamin was up at 5 am ready to do it again. We had lines in the water about 5:45 in the same general area that we found them last evening. Within 10 minutes it became pandemonium on the boat. Rods hooking up and screaming. And I mean screaming. Hybrids pull and fight like a freight train.......and these fish were much bigger than last evening. After about 90 minutes it was all over with. We were exhausted! Two big hybrids about 5 lbs each, a 26 inch striper around 7-8 lbs, and many other stripers in the 3-5 lb range. We kept our limit of 8. Benjamin could hardly hold up his end of the stringer! Picture doesn't do the hybrids justice with their backs to the camera....they were WIDE.
Here he is with the big striper.
Definitely a day that we will both remember for a long long time!
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That's a handfull!
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Well done. Keep making those memories!
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You keep this up and I'm tellin' Odernkirk that you are decimating the population!!
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Ernie wrote:
You keep this up and I'm tellin' Odernkirk that you are decimating the population!!
LOL. We already have a guy here writing him emails that “people are raping the resource by keeping too many stripers”. Pretty sure Hemby’s guides are well over a thousand kept so far this year. I am somewhere short of maybe 50 kept, but hundreds caught, and don’t always post every trip with fish.
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Well I won't be THAT guy! And how many do they stock every year?
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Ernie wrote:
.....And how many do they stock every year?
95,000+ stripers and 95,000+ hybrids each year. They hope for 20% survival rate. I think it is somewhere between 10-20%.
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Wow, what a trip, bet he dreams of the drag peeling off the reels tonight!
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