http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=140470&sc=150

Lots of nice striper fishing in NS

Wow that's amazing! interesting idea that the bass spawn around the area and that fish may not have been a migrant.

just another fish story without pictures.:hs:

Pretty cool. Those fish have to be living there year round.

A number of years ago someone doing life in a Massachusetts prison did his thesis on bass who spawned in this area, Nova Scotia, Hudson Bay areas, and migrated south towards New England. It must be on record somehwere, but the paper had a number of well-reasearched facts that couldn't be denied I clearly remember.

just another fish story without pictures.:hs:

Those "Capers" can get into a bad batch of the home brewed "screech" and no telling what they will pull out of the water!:cheers2:

(having lived up there for a year I am speaking from experience :buds:)

There was a fishing study done a couple of years back in the Mystic River, and they found baby stripers in the waterway that couldn't have migrated. Add to that the rumor of stripers being pulled through the ice on the Lower Mystic Lake, and it does seem plausible.

Absolutely is possible.
This isn't the first big striper reported from that area...

I really don't think that our understanding of striped bass' breeding and migration habits is too finely honed. Every years I see something about them that mystifies me. The topper was finding , after a hurricane, a 3 inch striper in the flotsam in Bayside Truro. In the Fall. Had to have been home grown.