I never knew of this one caught in a net in 1995. Forget 50, Forget 60, forget 70 or 80. 92 POUNDS!

http://www.arkansasstripers.com/images/92-pound-striped-bass-mdnr..jpg
Picture courtesy of the Maryland DNR (http://www.dnr.state.md.us/sw_index_flash.asp)


Since 1982 there apparently has been only 1 Striped Bass caught and verified that exceeded the 78.5# world record It did not become the new IGFA record because it was caught in a net by the Maryland DNR during a research project around 1995.
The Striped Bass was a massive 92 pounds and hangs on the wall of DNR in Annapolis, MD

Beautiful fish.

Show me the slip ;)

thats good to know. I've heard of Bass to 90lbs, but that was during the early 20th century. I hope they let it go. I thought 50lbs was the catch of a lifetime (from the shore that is).

never heard of a 92 pound bass, wow

I wanna hump that thing.

that's amazing
although how big is that doorway? like 5 feet across?

I heard they caught it on a chunk of frozen bunker at 3:00 p.m. ET on a Sunday afternoon, in five feet of water on the edge of a channel just outside a busy marina with the chunk floating on the surface suporting the 80-pound wire leader attached directly to the hook with a coastlock snap on a rod loaded with 10-pound test ... :faga:

Looks like a fiberglass mount, maybe the fish is still fishing around!!:fishslap: :hihi:

That doorway looks to be two 36-inch doors...so that bass would be around 68-70"...that's some pretty strong sheetrock holding that puppy up!! LOL

a 70 inch bass??? damn!!

I got a feeling that if that was picked up in a net....it ain't swimming anymore.

Thats a friggin Monster too.

Have seen photos and read about this several times over the years, it's also been on one or two of the boards before.

I seem to remeber that some commercial fisherman caught a 80-something pounder in his net off the VA coast about 5 years ago.

Doesn't Capt Don have a 90 something hanging in his shop?

I watched an internal video of a CG boarding during the haulback on a pair trawler. The two vsls towing the net came along side and passed off the net to the factory ship which actually hauls it in. They were fishing for what I forget, mid to top water - macks?... At any rate the bass bycatch was unbeleivable (huge and alot) and these guys could have cared less. So seeing the fish above and what I saw I have no doubt they are around. This was aroung the late 90's.

If these pelagic trawlers tell you they are a clean fishery they are full of it. I can only imagine the bycatch in the herring fishery

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imagine the fight a 90lb'er would put up! But the way my luck goes, a tourist or (insert colorful name for one who leaves a fishing area dirtier than they got there) with an upside down spinning reel.. (we've all seen that one!) would catch it on like fin said 10 lb test with a 4 inch storm shad, and it would be the first time they have ever fished on the cape.

What a nice fish though

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actually it was caught on a live eel :usd:

can you confirm that?

actually it was caught on a live eel :usd:

Actually, I believe the Maryland DNR caught it in a net when they were seining for tagging purposes, but couldn't revive it. As big as that fish is, bass once got even bigger. Bigelow's "Fishes of the Gulf of Maine", as authoritative source as there is, reports "...definite record being several of about 125lbs....taken at Edenton,N.C. in April 1891. One of 112 lbs caught at Orleans, Mass, many years ago. One of 100 1/2 lbs said to be have been taken in Casco Bay, Maine.." . Slim likelihood of any fish getting that big in this day and age without some major attitude adjustment by all of us who fish for them.

Now that's a lunker.:beat:
I'm sure, somewhere there are more like that.
Get a net.:laugha:

I watched an internal video of a CG boarding during the haulback on a pair trawler. The two vsls towing the net came along side and passed off the net to the factory ship which actually hauls it in. They were fishing for what I forget, mid to top water - macks?... At any rate the bass bycatch was unbeleivable (huge and alot) and these guys could have cared less. So seeing the fish above and what I saw I have no doubt they are around. This was aroung the late 90's.

If these pelagic trawlers tell you they are a clean fishery they are full of it. I can only imagine the bycatch in the herring fishery

Imagine what the bycatch is in the pogy fishery! The pogy boats must take tons of bass, litterally...