NEW DVD and Best Fishes for the New Year!

[Fish_Eye]

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to wish everyone the best of everything in 2004. May your stripers be enormous, may you get to spend more precious time on the water, and may you get the opportunity to share your experiences with friends and loved ones.

I've been hard at work creating my first DVD, "Stripers Gone Wild" and thanks to all the great suggestions I've received, right here at Striped-Bass.com, I'm about to release a mind-bending look at stripers and how to catch them. I figured it out the other day -- this project represents: over four years of effort, over 100 hours of new footage, 1,500 hours or more spent acquiring that footage, and countless hours reviewing, editing and finalizing the DVD.

The DVD will have over 90 MINUTES of action packed footage...a substantial amount of it underwater! The fishing/diving sequences take place form Maine to Montauk. No matter what type of tackle you prefer, no matter if you fish from a boat or from the surf, this DVD will give you a better understanding of stripers that will translate into you catching more and larger bass.

I cover techniques on how to read the water, and with the use of Maptech charts, aerial photography, satellite views, bathometric charts, and animation, I then put you on a specific striper “hot spot” and take you underwater to examine the realm of striped bass. I visit such legendary spots as Montauk Pt, Point Judith, Watch Hill Point, Brenton Reef, Beavertail Light, Gay Head, Wasque Point, Quonny Breachway, and Cuttyhunk. You’ll learn techniques from Captain Gary Corsetti that helped him win three separate ASA tournaments in 2003, including a 54 pound striper – the largest ever landed in an ASA tournament. In fact, you’ll see him catching and releasing bass up to 45 pounds! You’ll get to see Crazy Alberto knocking the scales off stripers with topwater offerings in the surf. There’s even a blitz sequence where a surf fisherman nails keeper after keeper, on an oversized, wooden “Spook”…he even hooks both a big bass AND a big blue at the same time. World-renowned fly fisherman Ed Hughes provides a fun look at flyfishing during a number of springtime frenzies.

I brought back my ever-popular “Stripervision” technique for giving you a virtual reality tour of striper habitat. I explore: reefs, rock piles, beaches, breakwaters, channels, pinnacles, promontories, creeks, rivers, harbors, bays, sandbars, tidal rips, and open ocean. I give you a fish-eye look at HOW BASS FEED AND WHAT BASS PREY ON: herring, menhaden, eels, crabs, bay anchovies, mullet, scup, silversides, cunner, flounder, scup, squid, snappers, pollack, and lobster. You’ll see proven fish catching techniques from chumming, to fly fishing, from topwater plugging to deep water chunking.

Finally, I take you on my own very personal hunt for giant stripers. This three-year odyssey involved four trips to Cuttyhunk between 2001 and 2003. It resulted in my catching (from the surf & on topwater plugs) both the striper that graces the cover on my last video with Lefty Kreh AND a 59” fish I released (no picture or video – my biggest regret of 2002). On my 2003 trip to Cutty I captured the most amazing footage of LARGE stripers EVER (the highpoint of 2003 and my entire career as an underwater videographer!). This footage reveals hundreds of BIG bass, many of them over 30 and 40 pounds with a few that I would estimate at over 50! I examine everything from tide, time of day, phase of moon, and location to give you a roadmap to success that can apply to anywhere along the striper coast.

I’ll be selling the DVD through a number of Striped-Bass.com sponsors and it should be ready before the end of January. If you’re interested in a copy of “Mike Laptew’s Stripers Gone Wild”*, let your S-B supporting retailer know, so that they know how many to order. As always, I promise: “The only place you’ll see more stripers is in your dreams.” However, I have to warn you: “The images of Cuttyhunk stripers will haunt you until next season.”

Happy New Year and God Bless.

* No stripers under 18” were knowingly filmed in the making of “Stripers Gone Wild.”

[goosefish]

look forward to it.

[fishweewee]

[Skitterpop]

Mike,

I want one!

Thanks for all your hard work in making this dvd possible.

When and how much?

Happy New Year,
Mike from Onset

[Fish_Eye]

Indanite,

They should be available by the end of January...depending on the printing, duplicating and a few other details.

I've had an opportunity to show the rough cut to a few respected anglers and world-class freedivers...happy to say they were all blown away by it.

It's going to retail for $29.95.

Some of the footage will be shown during my upcoming seminars -- including the East Bay Anglers show January 13th. They have already sold over 400 tickets with a ceiling of 500. If anyone is thinking of going to that show, you need to reserve your seats immediately.

I'm looking forward to seeing a number of S-B posters at the EBA show, Worcester, Marlboro, Wilmington, Suffern, Greater Philly , and hopefully the Mass Bass Show (Patrick, please answer your PM).

Mike

[UserRemoved1]

hoily crap Mike I droolin already

[quick decision]

If you put those words on the back of every DVD you make you will sell every one. How can I get two?

[Joe]

S-B sponsor Joe will be stocking a bunch......

I have the whole Laptew collection in stock
Laptew Videos

[BigFish]

Smells like a heavy dose of "SPAM"!

[Clammer]

Joe put me down for a copy/////////////thanks =Mike

[JohnR]

Originally posted by BigFish
Smells like a heavy dose of "SPAM"!

BF - its authorized spam

Looking forward to seeing it...

[BigFish]

Sorry Fish-Eye....just looking out for our host....love your work! Happy New Year to you!

[Fish_Eye]

BigFish, sorry you felt SPAMED, but as a big time supporter of this site, and as a contributor of content, photos and video clips in the past, I felt this post was more an announcement and a look at “the making of” then it was unadulterated spam.

Like most everyone I am pretty fed up with the crap I find in my e-mail. I figure if I followed up on 1% of my e-mail solicitations, I would be able to pleasure Paris Hilton, ALL WEEK LONG, with a “keeper” size unit, kept in service by discount pharmaceuticals while staying, for free, at a luxury hotel where I could eat anything on the menu while still loosing weight.

Oh, one other thing, everything I describe or promise is actually delivered…anyone that has fished with me or seen my past videos will attest to that…besides, the proof is on the DVD.

Again, sorry if you found the post objectionable – Happy New Year and I hope you find the Big Fish of your dreams in 04.

[chris L]

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time to start for a good dvd .

[fishweewee]

I had a high school friend whose name was SAM.

He married a gal named PAM.

I hope they name their firstborn

Because SAM + PAM =

[BigFish]

Thanks for the good wishes Fish Eye.....looking forward to your new creation! Didn't mean to step on the digits! No apologies are necessary my friend! Big fish right back at you!

[TheSpecialist]

Mike sounds like the video we have all been dying for. I can't wait to get it.

[Slingah]

Sounds awesome
Wish I had one now
Come On Spring

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Originally posted by TheSpecialist
Mike sounds like the video we have all been dying for. I can't wait to get it.

Dito

[BEETLE]

I'll be buying one - look forward to it.

[Slipknot]

That's very welcome news Mike
It sounds like just what we need. I have been looking forward to this one for a long time. See you in Barrington on the 13th.

Happy New Year

[Joe]

There is a major difference between trying to to swindle someone with fake Viagra and turning them onto a good product by someone who has a track record of producing quality work....I can't tell how many times I've clicked on Paris Hilton links only to be disappointed......

Discussing videos, new lures, announcing the arrivals of re-stocks of favorite products - I think it has a place - especially in the winter, when so many boards descend into infighting...
Most people like buying good stuff and want to know about it.

[UserRemoved1]

post a snippet of video Mike

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post a snippet of video Mike

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[Fish_Eye]

True story:

Many years ago, my wife and another couple went to a fancy, schmancy restaurant called Café in the Barn. I was reluctant to go there because I wasn’t in the mood for an overpriced meal that might consist of 2 baby carrots, a tiny red potato and 1 ounce of lamb…if I hit them on a good night. After a martini and a long wait to be seated we started on our second round of drinks and then finally got a look at that evening’s menu. Sure enough, items like one half, roasted quail on a bed of sweet potato hay, or calves liver on wild rice just didn’t make it with me. And judging by the prolonged silence at the table, nobody else was thrilled with the countless oddball offerings…and not inexpensive items either. So I asked (in my best ‘I told you so’ tone) “Do you see anything you really want to order?” Nobody at our table was interested with anything on the menu. But what could we do? We had waited 45 minutes for the prime table in the middle of the open barn setting and we were already through our second cocktail when I suggested, “I’ll handle it. Just follow my lead.” When the waitress returned and asked, “Can I take your order?” I snapped back with, “There’s a problem with your menu!” “What?” exclaimed the waitress? “Why, it’s so very limited” I proclaimed in the most pretentious manner. “Limited? Limited? What do you mean?” “Well……..you have NO SPAM! Yes, you haven’t any SPAM! With that rather loud announcement, my friend Peter caught on quickly and followed my lead with, “What! No Spam! No Spam and eggs. No eggs Spam and Spam.” I chime back with, “No Spam, Spam, bacon and Spam – we’re leaving! We left a hefty tip, but ceremoniously all walked out with our noses held high and all but a few Monty Python fans understood our attempt at humor – we knew who they were, they were chanting SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM!

[Fish_Eye]

I'll work up a very short snippet of video next week. But seeing how JohnR pays for the bandwith here it will have to be VERY short.

Thanks for your interest folks!

Mike

[Moses]

Have seen you other videos and have heard great things about this new one. I anxiously await it's release.

[FishermanTim]

There are two theories as to what SPAM stands for.

One is that it stands for "SPiced hAM"

But my favorite is

Squirrels
Possums
And
Mice

Happy New Year

I certainly will be looking to get the DVD when they're available. It sounds like a sound investment.

[Bliz]

Sign me on for a copy!...

Let us know Joe!...

[Mr. Sandman]

Fisheye,

I can't tell you how primed I am to see that '03 Cuttyhunk footage! (not to mention all the rest of your excellent work) All I can say is that I plan on working that region (a lot) again in 04.

Glad to see DVD format...my tapes are worn out

Hope to catch you at one of the shows this winter.

Sandman