All is quiet on the site today so I thought I would pose a question of curiousity! What is your biggest striped bass, surf or boat, or both? I will begin....My biggest striper to date is a 31 pound 1 ounce bass that I caught 2 years ago down the backside at the beginning of that seasons fall run. It was quite a night....the beach was jammed with surfcasters and there were fish from 25-40 pounds laying all over the beach, every fisherman that walked by us was dragging a nice fish off the beach. I got mine on a live eel, layed him up high in the sand, and ran back to the waters edge and on my next cast I had a bigger fish on but it ran directly towards me and I could not take the slack line up quick enough. She must have wrapped the line around herself and then cut me off!:bc: I was not too upset though because I already had the biggest bass I ever caught laying in the sand and I was pretty happy.:uhuh: But man, I walked off the beach that night with my fish...and there were huge bass laying all over the parking lot. People had them on the ground, on their tailgates, they were sticking out of coolers. It was like a striped bass truck had exploded in the parking lot. Lots of fun. Boy...you really wind up wanting bigger fish, it is like an illness. The bigger you catch, the bigger you want.:drool: I have been fishing hard trying to break that 40 pound mark, but it sure ain't easy! I know many of you have done it, it must be pretty sweet. :cheers: OK...your turn, tell us about your braggin' bass.

I got one 33 pounds out of the canal. I've hooked giant ones there but always end up loosing them over the "drop #^&#^&#^&#^& or in the jagged rocks.:(
Someday I'll get that 60 pounder out of there, I know they are there, July and August.

55 lbs, Hingham harbor, live pogie in almost the same spot I took at 50 the year before. I miss the big bunker:(, I loved fishing live bunker, nothing beats watching a live one start freaking out behind the boat (oh yeah these were easy boat fish, I cheated hehe). The following year (I think a mind is a terrible thing to waste) I had a banner blitz off Peagoty Beach from shore, 6 over 40 lbs that afternoon and I dropped one I think would have gone 60. Those all came on an Atom popper, the entire cove looked like bunker flying fish, all trying to escape a massive school of aligator blues and jumbo bass. I miss the big bunker:(.

47" 39 1/2 # I was so mad!! I wanted a 40# so bad!! I deserve it!! All my buddys have 40's but I have not got there. That was last year by boat near Nauset light on a live eel.
Still trying??

I'm bad at keeping count, sometimes I just throw em back, but tonight it was a 39" 26 lber.. first cast with an eel....whack :D My best recorded one for the season so far.

49" 42lbs, 3oz.
N. Scituate on live Pogies.
Boat fish (so it didn't count:laughs: )
Three other fish that same day all over 35 lbs.

My biggest to date is 38#-48",caught on tube & worm, also got a 36# & 34# that same day, it was this past July at B.I. Still trying to break the 40# mark.:happy: :happy:

49# on a notsosecret plug nor'easter knows about in the boulders of Cuttyhunk at daybreak :D

Its been a while but about 12 yrs ago I caught my biggest(31lbs 11 ounces) on a live eel from the sand bar at the mouth of the Narrow river. That was back when the legal length was 39"!!!
I remember that night like it was yesterday because we ended up catching over 25 fish between 10 and 31lbs. The rest of the fish came on 1/2 oz. bucktails with white grub trailers.

40 lbs, caught on a mack chunk in Old Greenwich, CT. November 1997. Penn 7500 and an Ugly Stick. :laughs:

39" - July 2nd this year - early morning before work off Beavertail on a parachute jig. She took it and bolted - reel was screaming. Had a 38" that same morning.

43+ lb on a surface plug. Middle of the day, deep wate, off the beach.

Hit the plug a second after it landed. Looked like a seal smashed it as the water exploded.

Best thing about it was it was on a 8' stick with 14lb test.

Made it at least challenging.

This year 31 lb on a swimmer.

Fished hard last night and took the big skunko. First time in a few outings. What is up with that ? :(

Nice fish guys, and great stories! Any sixties out there? Come on...some of you other members must have a good story or two?:chatter :bounce: :uhuh:

44# 51.5" June this year. Outer Cape. Surf.
After walking on, first eel balls up and I stay calm. I eel up walk right to the hole and BAM. Big fish on. 2 runs out of the suds then I figure I better grab her this time, lifted her out of the wash and saw the head then I started shakin'. I put her on the sand and kept fishing in a haze.
One of those magicial moments I'll never forget.

No matter how many times I hear that story Slingah I just love it! Someday, hopefully it will happen to me.:kewl: Where you been hidin' Slingah?:hidin:

Waaaaazzz up BigGuy. Working all weekend.....again.
Next year u get 50.:)

Ummm....thats BigFish to you Mr. Slingah!:laugha: Give me a buzz on the cell when you get a minute. We need to get out fishing again at least one more time.:uhuh:

37 pounds on snake, few years ago and a couple nights after getting SPOOOOOLED. South of Boston, North of Plymouth :D

this year....44# 2oz from boat on liveerrr chunk Pogie
estimated 27# 44" from Shore on black Mambo in hull fish was released

36#, 45"

Mid-July 2000, Provincelands.

Black Mambo just after the sun went under water at dusk.

my largest from the surf was 44inches and 35lbs,on a black and purlpe needle, that was last weekend.in the 60's and early 70's had many fish over 40 while fishing with my father on Long Island.i rember landing a 40 and 42 lber at once on an umbrella rig in 1969,Tom Seaver was on the mound for the Mets in the world serieswhen i caught the fish, that was in Montauk on the charter boat ''Sportfisher''. my father had quite afew over 60 in those years all from the boat.

44.5 inches
30 lbs

From surf, on bass candy:D ( this is the one that counts ;) yes I did air hump it )



41 inches
28 lbs

Boat fish (which only counts to the boat guys ;) :D )

46" 38lbs BI SE Corner (Boat), 41" 30lb fatty Charlestown Breachway (shore).......Can't get that dam 40lb'er.......

This year I landed my biggest from baot and shore
45" 35lb, boat, chunked herring, Gloucester
42" ??#, Bass Assassin from the shores in Holyoke

Boat - 44 pounds, 49 inches, on a live eel, Penn 550, 15 lb test line, Old Saybrook CT on boat.

Surf - 39 pounds, 48 inches, on live eel, Penn 650, 15 lb test line, Old Saybrook from the rocks about 50 yards from where I got my boat 44 pounder.

Hey Gary,

you gotta a good spot there, eh ? :D

37lbs, 46" from the shore on a live eel.

39lb Tube and Worm
36lb Snake (in 6ft of water from my 13' whaler)
low 20's for shore.. more than 1 less than 100....cant seem to break 30 from the hardground yet.. but it's only Nov 2... that was/is my goal this year...
Bryan

A couple of years ago 481/2 pounds on an eel at the porgy hump off Montauk. Still waiting on my 50!

Yup, beachwalker, when I fish it from shore I try to cast as far out into the rocks as possible, when in the boat I try to get as close to shore as I can.

21 lbs caught a year ago June from the surf on a 1 oz pencil popper. My first keeper!!! :boots: Great fun!! :uhuh:

Friday the 13th (july '01) south shore of mass... live eel... 44 1/2", 33lb 4oz.... standing on terra firma, so YES, IT COUNTS BABY!!

That was 2 years ago and I haven't sniffed 30#, let alone 40# since. In all fairness to myself, I haven't put alot of time in targeting large, but more this year. Biggest this year was a bit over 23lbs on a live herring from a boat.

I'll be back over 30#, maybe 40# next season 'cause I was just figuring out that live bait thing when the live bait swam away for the year. I was on some good fish there. Of couse, those will be loser boat fish so they won't be any fun.

Biggest fish on artificials was 37+" and 20lbs. on a 5" split tail ledgerunner in July off my favorite rockpile... smoke.

All small fish. Feel guilty. The fish I brought home last night was the first fish under 30#s I have brought home in over a month. Just been lucky.:cool:

Come on Redlite...you didn't give us your Braggin' Bass story...your just plain braggin'! What is your biggest bass, give us the details!!!!:uhuh:

I have had several 40 lbers this year during commercial season, but from my boat. My biggest fish, actually my two biggest fish were taken on consecutive nights way back in 1990. Late October, live eel, Osterville Ma., from a jetty, outgoing tide, dusk, not a soul around. First night 52" 46 lbs. next night standing on same rock 55" 58lbs. Had it mounted and still enjoy it especially when I get home after fishing for 10 hrs. with nothing to show.

Scotchbonnet's biggest fish of the year caught tonight!

mike, caught a 28# around the corner after we saw u and a couple of 15#.

32 lbs, October 1st on a 1/2 white bucktail in the surf. My career biggest was a 38lb fish July 4th 12:00 noon 90 degree day light surf, swimmers swimming around while I fished on a clam on a Long Island Beach. After I landed that fish most sun bathers were afraid to go in the water with stuff that big swimming around.

Still lookin' for a 60 pounder story???? Baitcaster can you help us out???:uhuh: :kewl:

well, no weight on her, but i got a FAT 53" last fall from the cape. that is the biggest bass i have ever witnessed! she was the third or fourth fish in the series. i always say that ANY hog i catch, if she can swim off on her own, will! and so she did. i had found a hole that was full of big bass. i landed 6 fish before i ran out of eels. the smallest was 27#'s, the rest bottomed out the 30# boga with ease. others were into some good fish that night, but i didn't see anything as big as my girl. one guy even had the nuts to call me crazy for letting her go :jump1: , but i was happy with the outcome.

42.5" 33# and change. Caught it 9/5/02 on a live eel here in Westport. Had been getting "bluefished" all night and had only 3 eels left. I decided to move away from the blues. When I hooked the eel he performed the elusive eel knot, followed by a triple lutz, after about 10 minutes of untangling I decided that he deserved to be fed to the blues. Threw him into the bluefish and caught the biggest bass of my lifetime so far.