OK June 29-July 1st - Another Tourney, this one from Mass Striped Bass... Lots of cool prizes and sponsored by some of your favorite people and places like ME and MikeCC @ M&D/CapeCodTackle.com... It also looks like ROCCUS charters is in there, same one Jerry?? This is a boat and shore tourney - mostly boat (but two years ago the biggest bass was from shore :P )... Here's the details...

http://www.striped-bass.com/msbatourney.shtml

Oh Johnnie, we will be there, think you can handle the pressure!!!!!!

I'll be there also. Maybe I'll even be above the water line.........By the way read the fishing reports for Mass. on flyfishsaltwater.com and read about the 48" bass dredged up from the powder point bridge.

John here is a fish story true !!!
last year one week before this tourney I got a 42 inch striper !!
That fish would have been second place.
So this week I'm not fishing. (yea right)
Good luck to all in this tourney!!
Striper1@earthlink.net Frank C.

Time to get some eels in the tank and start planning the early morning drifts on some of my favorite ledges. Sounds like fun, I'll have to shoot up to North River Tackle today and register.

Damn, Swimmer, I bet I know the exact spot that baby was hiding. You got that link? I tried what you typed and it didn't work.

http://www.flyfishsaltwaters.com , I like that site...

here's a link to the thread Steve.

http://www.flyfishsaltwaters.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/001906.html

I detect either a little jealousy or some are elitists there. That is a nice fish especially since it was a 19 year olds second striper ever.

Ah, I was missing the "s" at the end. Yeah, I'd say a little jealousy. I mean, I've seen some big fish come out of there, and maybe some even bigger than that, but not very often. At 48" and a "fat belly", it had to weigh upwards of 35-40 lbs.

A few years back, one of the bridge regulars was live lining a shad that was about 14" long, and a moby swallowed it whole, it still had the tail hanging about two inches out of its mouth. But that was the exception, definately not the rule. Most of the keeper fish I see in that area are in the 36" to 40" range.

You also gotta give the kid credit, cause if he caught it while fishing from the bridge, it is no easy feat to land it, with the pilings and all. And if he was near the channel, like most guys are, its a far walk to slide him onto the sand. That's why I rarely fish from the bridge anymore, I keep my feet on the sand. (Hint - the edge of the channel is not necassarily the best spot to be, anyway. ;))