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Old 01-02-2014, 05:21 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by OLD GOAT View Post
When I was about six years old I still remember Squids on a tarred line being swung like a lasso and let go into the wash then pulled in hand over hand hoping for a strike
Bigelow & Schroder (Fishes of the Gulf of Maine) report that someone took a 112 lb striped bass doing that in Orleans around the turn of the century. That is what I'd call a "strike".
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