smallest striper you ever caught??
 

All the post are about big bass, so here is a change of pace, whats the smallest striper you ever caught and on what??

About a month ago...The Clammer and I got a few dinks..

Not the smallest ever but 2 seasons ago I got a 12" striper on a Habs 12" needle. Then lost that needle on the next cast..... Bad memories:lossinit:

About the length of a dollar bill. 7", maybe? Had to be one from a small native population of the river, because a bass that size surely wouldn't migrate.

caught a few trout size stripers.like 7'' or so.gotta be native fish born in rivers i fish.

6 in. on a zara spook

6-7"
On the back beach at the cape a couple of years ago.

I think I have you all beat. Years ago when I was a kid maybe '77 or so I was on our family sailboat in Waquoit Bay. There were bait fish being chased by bluefish. I snagged a bait fish and I didn't recognise it. Finally could make out the stripes. Only 5 inches or so and so small it didn't really have the "normal" shape of the striper yet. I guess I am not 100% sure it was a bass but I think it was.

Never the less in '77 I put it back in the water on a hook just to see what the predator was. about 7 pound blues.

I've gotten a couple around 7" while fishing for snapper blues. Some must breed locally for that to happen, I think.

sounds like a lot of breeding going on:ss::ss:

for what its worth ;; I was told by someone who should know / that the bass make their 1st migration at approx 7 " to 8 "

Now the holdover fish have a very high percentage of Hudson river fish // With that in mine & the Hudson alot closer than the C/B , I think it maybe possible to have smaller fish migrate up here ;;

JMI :huh:

Wise guy, but still alot more clairvoyant. :hihi:

Another post by Clammer that everyone can understand...OK...Where is Clammer and what have you %^^$& done with him..&^%#@#%

9" or so and was caught on a Yozuri crystal minnow.

Haven't fished for snappers for years (when my kids were little) but sometimes I used to cath 4" bass @ a rate 1out of every 10 on the N. Shore L.I.

Somebody oughta swing by Clammer's house - I was thinking the same thing -

Some one might have broken in, tied the old geezer up in a corner and taken over his computer.

Uhhh....on second thought, maybe not...


He might actually like that sorta thing...:eek5:

7-8" on a silver blue fox spinner in weekapaug pond this fall. I was fishing for Hickory Shad and it hit.

For me it was probably around 6". I had just taken my 1st cast on my 1st attempt at salt water fly fishing. It was great to feel something on the end of the line on the 1st cast, but a little disturbing when the fish was just a tiny tiny striper. I really didn't need my 10wt rod to land this brute, but that's what I used to horse the little guy in :)

smallest I ever caught was about 4 inches, caught on a little castmaster in the Mianus river in Greenwich CT while snapper fishing.

40lbs Im Spoiled:hihi:

Ten incher, last spring. At the entrance to New Harbor,Block Island. On a 4" sluggo

Sluggo,s don,t count ><<><:fishin:

the smallest fish i caught was 6 inches, 2 yrs ago

I would say about 10"s. But I don't talk about them.:wave:

In the Chesapeake you can catch them when they are tiny, maybe 4" long. Two years ago I was getting them about this size on small top water on the back hook because they were way too small to take the plug.

use to catch bass between 2 and 3 inches long in the creek were my father use to keep our boat on the south shore of LI.i would be fishing for killies with a straigt pin bent in the shape of a hook with a tiny piece of clam.this was in the late 50's early 60's.use to get quite a few when i would seine for shiners also.

Sure they weren't tiger killies?

Mike i am sure they weren't tiger killies.they do look similiar.several of the old baymen who keep their boats in the marina were the ones that told me they were bass.

O.K. just checking. :) I grew up on LI and never saw any that small, but I did see lots of tiger killies.

L.I.fish- I did the same, white perch, snappers, weaks, killies, eels and stripers- we also caught a few bass in eel pots in the creek behind my grandpa house in the 60's.