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tper
03-22-2006, 10:44 AM
I was just reading an article and it mentioned the
largest bass ever caught --- not by rod and reel -

Anyone know the answer
Rappin Mikey
03-22-2006, 10:58 AM
125#
tper
03-22-2006, 01:43 PM
close although not what I read --- where was it caught
Moses
03-22-2006, 02:01 PM
125 off NC coast
tper
03-22-2006, 02:28 PM
Straight from Outdoor life Apirls edition ----

In 1889 a 112 lb striped bass was caught in
a seine net off of Cape Cod at Orleans Mass.

Is this the truth?
Flaptail
03-22-2006, 02:37 PM
Outdoor Life better do so more research. 125 is the what they ( there were two in the same seine) estimated to have weighed before they were gutted. The 112 is the gutted weight. Also, a Francis Miner caught and weighed an 89 pounder on Block Island in the 1800's but the documentation was lost. He caught it on a rod and reel.
JohnR
03-22-2006, 02:45 PM
Outdoor Life better do so more research. 125 is the what they ( there were two in the same seine) estimated to have weighed before they were gutted. The 112 is the gutted weight. Also, a Francis Miner caught and weighed an 89 pounder on Block Island in the 1800's but the documentation was lost. He caught it on a rod and reel.

The block island bass is the one that is the print of the man and the striper but the striper has no stripes, right?
Canalman
03-22-2006, 03:52 PM
Too bad there are no pics... I'd love to see what that looks like.

Now Raven before you get any ideas... I don't want to see a photoshop job with a 125# bass being hoisted by Chewbaca or something like that :laughs: :laughs:

-Dave
Canalman
03-22-2006, 03:52 PM
or..... maybe I do:tm: :rotf3:
BernOC
03-22-2006, 07:30 PM
intestesting article from the Block Island Times on Francis Miners bass...

http://www.blockislandtimes.com/News/2002/0727/News/043.html
piemma
03-23-2006, 09:28 AM
125# in a seine net is what I read. Billy the Greek in his book says that there was a bass caught on rod and reel on LI, at Fulton fish market in the 70s that was 1 to the box. A box weighs 100 lbs
Flaptail
03-23-2006, 10:52 AM
125# in a seine net is what I read. Billy the Greek in his book says that there was a bass caught on rod and reel on LI, at Fulton fish market in the 70s that was 1 to the box. A box weighs 100 lbs
See my display at the MSBA show. I have a picture of an 82 pounder caught by a commercial rod and reeler and sold to Fulton that MSBA bought and had shipped to the Old Sportsman Show in Boston where they kept it on ice.