Your Greatest Moment Fishing? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

slow eddie · 03-23-2009, 08:27 AM

taking my sons to the old jamestown ferry dock for snapper and mackeral. over 40 years and still remember it like it was yesterday. the looks on their faces is something i'll never forget.

Rockfish9 · 03-23-2009, 08:40 AM

This is a tough one.... so many to choose from... If I have to pick one, and one only.. it was the night when I took my son fishing after returning home from his first tour in Afganastan... he called me up state side after being away for two years (He's a seal) I hadnt heard from him in all that time, and the fact that after he kissed and daughters hello and good bye called the "old man", he made the trip from Jersey to plum island, the thunder rolled lightning flashed the sky, but we fished on, catching fish until our weary arms could take no more... here is a picture that is forever my favorite...it was one of several doubles we took that speacial night, both fish were freleased to gfght another day...

piemma · 03-23-2009, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Rockfish9

This is a tough one.... so many to choose from... If I have to pick one, and one only.. it was the night when I took my son fishing after returning home from his first tour in Afganastan... he called me up state side after being away for two years (He's a seal) I hadnt heard from him in all that time, and the fact that after he kissed and daughters hello and good bye called the "old man", he made the trip from Jersey to plum island, the thunder rolled lightning flashed the sky, but we fished on, catching fish until our weary arms could take no more... here is a picture that is forever my favorite...it was one of several doubles we took that speacial night, both fish were freleased to gfght another day...

Put a lump in my throat. Good for you!!!

RickBomba · 03-23-2009, 10:59 AM

I slept through the blitz that Mikey is talking about!!! Best day for me was a foggy July day about 8 years ago. Myself and two buddies launched out of Rockport and couldn't see a thing. Made it out to the spot and we immediately started banging cookie cutter 15 pounders. I stopped keeping track at 10. Anyhow, action starts to slow down, and I throw my baitcaster out with a hish tail out about 30 feet and put the rod in the holder to drink a beer and have a smoke. Anyhow, I see a tail come out of the water bigger than I've ever seen. Fought the fish for about 15 minutes (I was way outclassed), and got the fish in the boat...44 1/2" fork measurement. No scale, so can't say how big. Anyhow, we already had six fish, so it had to go back. At the time I remember thinking to myself I'd catch another like that, which I never even came close.

american spirit · 03-23-2009, 12:50 PM

haulin my first 40 to the truck. i had it slung over my shoulder and the tail was slapping my calfs. it felt good.

Rappin Mikey · 03-23-2009, 01:03 PM

Hey Ricky, If my mind serves me correctly, you slept in the car that day in April too. Time to start drinking less and fishing more. Hold on, did I just say that?

eastendlu · 03-23-2009, 01:16 PM

I was 5 years old living in Argentina my family was visiting my grandmother my father decides to go fishing at a local river and takes me leaves me with a handline as he fishes with some locals a ways away i feel a tug and pull on the line and am slowly getting pulled in to the rivers edge i give a yell the old man comes running over grabs the line and fights this thing for a while.Pulls it in and it was a nice fish and can't believe i did not get pulled in dam i remember this like it was yesterday the sun on my face the smell of the river after that i was hooked and have been at it ever since.Thanks for posting this.

Moron_Saxatilis · 03-23-2009, 01:43 PM

I took my oldest son who was around 10 at the time out to N. Monomoy on the water taxi. I had been out there 4-5 times already and was geared up w/ the flyrod. I set my son up w/ a freshwater bass rod with 10lb test or so and a carolina rig with circle hooks and dead sand eels. We fished the drop off on the southeast tip as it was cloudy and got some schoolies. The sun popped out and the tide was dropping so we headed onto the flats between n. and s. Monomoy. A pod of around 7-8 nice fish passed and we both got off a cast, nada. I got off another cast and heard him say he saw fish behind us. I was like ya ya while trying to gat one more shot. Then he goes "I got one!" I turn and see ~25lb. striper shakingit's head like a pit bull with arabbit in it's mouth. The reel starts screaming and rod is cranked over. the only choice we had was to just keep walking towards the fish. At one point he tries to give me the rod but i wasn't taking any responsibility at this point. I look at the reel and saw spool and around 5 turns of mono. We basically walked hundreds of yards to the fish and I just walked behind it slowly and grabbed the tail. W got a great pic of him barely being able to lift the fish and realeasd it I measured it against rod and it was 39-40". A hell of a fish on that tackle.

Striperhound · 03-23-2009, 07:13 PM

my dad taking me fishing for the first time 5-6 years old too long ago to remember. Caught a white perch in an upstate NY pond. Never looked back and still remember the day like it was yesterday some 35years ago.

fishgolf · 03-25-2009, 03:48 PM

First about 10 years ago on Weekapaug Beach, my 13 yr old son (at the time) caught his first striper on his brand new spin caster (though cheap it was). He hooked up with a little popper. He couldn't reel it in...brain lock... he walked backwards until the fish came out of the surf, dropped the new rod/reel into the sand and ran down to tackle the fish...poor thing. Then proceeded to try and pull the lip from 27.5 inches to 28"...poor thing. He released it.

The second about 5 years ago in almost the same spot.
My wife to be had never fished (she is from Colombia, S.A.). She was practicing casting in ankle deep water.
A bluefin came out of the water about 200 feet in front of us. Looked like a car fell into the ocean! I was amazed. I turned to see if she saw it... she was gone.
She was at the back of the beach..."there are things that big in the water?" she exclaimed... It took our honeymoon the next year to get her back in the water (same place again). She caught dozens of schoolies and bluefish and has been hooked ever since. Those memories are the best.
That was very cool.

johnny ducketts · 03-23-2009, 08:41 AM

Right now, I would say it was catching my first keeper last year, on my own plug made with help from Biteme, and Mr. Striper. I'm sure in 4-5 years though it's gonna be when my son Cameron catches his first fish ever, I think that'll be a day I am never going to forget.

Great Stories Guys

Flaptail · 03-23-2009, 09:34 AM

In September several years back Eric LaFleur and I caught and released 28 False Albacore while wading the north edge of the north Island flats at Monomoy. We were flyfishing and all those fish took the fly in 3 feet of water or less. There were hundreds of them constantly crashing bait all around us as the tide rose. He got 15 and I landed 13 never mind all we dropped or broke off. Damm near ran out of flies with my PB being 12-1/2 pounds. 8 wt's with monocore intermediate lines.

I doubt I will ever experience flyfishing like that again.