this was the best striped bass fishing moment(s)

hahaha:laughs:....believe me Ronnie...I'll be a boat guy someday....I like catching!!!

Your lucky that fish didn't bite you in the ookadooka....

A few outings that stand out forme:
One of my first outings with a new kayak and getting some good size blues on top water. Catching my albie first was also a highlight

Watching my daughter(she is 8): Catching some good size large mouth bass, another time she was landing doubles while scup fishing

Getting my ten year old son and eight year old daughter into blues in the surf!

Too many to put down in print, was fun year all around,

:hihi:...merry x-mas eddie

Best and worst moment at the same time. Being in acres and acres of porpoising
albies and not being able to put one in the boat.

i thought that the little strip tease from the drunk girl just before last call at Club Soda on BI was gonna be yours :hihi:

Memorable moment and a schoolie-- In the middle of the summer I took the family to Watch Hill for some shopping and some beach. At about 3:30, I was getting bored at the beach watching 500 people lying around. So I went back to the car to get a rod to practice retreiving my then new custom super strike bullet in the bunker pattern I got from Joe Lyons. I go about 30 yards from the crowd of swimmers and on the third cast I catch a schoolie. Well you would have thought I caught a sea monster.

My kids and around 50 other kids come running over like a stampede and want to look at the schoolie. Then my wife actually comes over and sees that I do in fact have the ability to catch a striper- which she had some doubt. Well it was my 5 minutes of fame during a hot afternoon at a crowded beach until I let him swim away. It was a happy family moment.

Best 07 Surf moment......
 

Was letting my 6yr old tango with the fish while i watched and laughed.... first 30" bass for my boy on a pocket rocket... 0 fish for dad that day... 1 bass and several blues landed for my son who wanted to follow the school around the corner and back up the river.. LOL......

For me.....my 1st Albie.

Cathing my PB this year was pretty damn cool and also winning a weekly winner prize in the striper cup was pretty damn cool too, but I gotta say THE most fun I had fishing this year was Cuttyhunk. Even though the fishing wasn't great, there is something special about that place and being there with you bonafide striper nuts and meeting new friends was all I needed.http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...ad.php?t=41561

Throwin a needle at night on MV....I'm in up to my chest and I hook into what feels like a greyhound bus. At the same time across the sound, a town fireworks display starts so I'm getting that and the reflection of it in the water! Turns out I snagged a 24" striper sideways (you know how that goes) but man, what a rush....brain felt like it was back in '68!

memorial day catching large stripers on manhaden,,, that was a first for me

Coming right at the boat, about 20 - 30ft off the beam, seeing a bluefish dive out of the water, then right behind it a giant tuna coming out of the water behind it with mouth wide open.

It was an awesome sight.

Watching my brother come out of the head on the Cuttyhunk Ferry after the thing exploded all over him!
I didn't catch too many big fish this year, so that was cool for me.
The other was sticking a whole Bud bottle down the gullet of a good fish that Mikey got in Ct right at the beginning of the season.
Boy was he surprised when he cut open the stomach!
Later,
Rick

catching fish on my first two casts during my first ever trip to montauk

Taking a bunch of kids fishing at Lake Winnepisaukee (?) this summer
and having them all catch fish. Although it's not about big fish, it is about another generation of potential fishing buddies to carry the torch into our future.

Getting my personal best on a top water in the worst weather i have ever fished 20 minutes after leaving the saltwater edge with a simms top, not getting wet never felt so good.

:btu:
Awesome!

mine was probably the event that made me hang it up for the season..

sittin on the jetty. laying into dogfish after dogfish.. some big ones atleast.. (better than nothing)
any way.. gettin ready to wrap it up. i get a hit.. oh joy another dog.. so i reel em up.. then i feel what appears to be seaweed or the like weighing my line down. turns out it's a lobster.. it apparently really liked my weight.. to the point where it had it grasped (still did) for long enough to get all shades of wrapped up in my line. ok not a problem, happens with crabs and lobsters all the time.. except, he managed to get wrapped up about 40 ft up the line from my hook.. and i got decent doggy pulling away on the end... so some how my buddy managed to untangle the litte bugger with all the tension on the line.. and both got thrown back to go about being stupid..

now that's not all that great.. but i kept thinking "oh man this would be my nightmare situation if i have a decent fish on!" though i suppose a decent fish would have ended up cutting/snapping the claw right off with the braid..

but after the way everything had been going it was one of those perfect ways to end the season. it sums up the frustration of the last 3months there. and gives me a decent chuckle.

fishing in the dead of the night...on a sand bar in 85 degree weather with just a bathing suit and a t-shirt on....and hooking into decent fish fishing a needle real slow....and being totally alone...

I had some great days bass fishing by myself last year, but the days that stand out as my best days were fishing with my son and my dad.

I took my son down the cape in may and there were bluefish everycast but they were out too far for him to reach, so I'd cast the 2 rods and we'd reel em in together and see who could hook up first. Then whichever rod hooked up, he'd reel in the fish. He landed something like 40 fish that night and we left when his shoulder ached. And then he asked if we could go again the next night and it was just as good!

In mid october I took a week off to fish with my dad, and we got lucky and hit the best albie fishing we've ever had in some not so nice weather..

Over the course of 3 afternoons we landed 50 something albies, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz what a blast in the surf on light tackle. It is a lot of fun trying to get them out of the rutt on 12lb test....

Watching my daughter reel in what seemed like a really big bass when she hit the free spool lever on the Penn 113H and all the lead core line backlashed making the reel unusable. So she yelled "dad" and threw the rod at me and handlined the 42LB bass in by hand. Smiling the whole time and setting a new boat record.

:claps: Good one and good bump.:soon::musc:

had a couple great days, best was a 90or so pound blue fin on my friends boat, a 36" bass on my birthday and the most fun was on Niko's boat snagging pogies and slaying big bass and blues, hopefully some better stories for thispost next time around

Hands down best day -- My 4yr old son catching his first Striper.
He got 3 in about 1/2 an hour, biggest 24" right at the dock. Forget the tuna and all the other stuff, Best Day Ever.

Seeing my wife and my father (over from the UK) both hook into 5-7lb blues on a bluebird morning at the beach. My 4 year old eldest daughter helped to reel in a couple of blues as well. Great big grin on her face!
We had planned a walk on the beach only, but I always bring a couple of rods just in case!.

Priceless.

(sorry Tynan - I never did get round to putting those photos up!!)

For this year, my eldest is asking for me to teach her to cast so that she can join me on the beach, and my second daughter (2 1/2) is asking to 'fishing with daddy'.

Looks like I am going to be busy!!:btu: