nova scotian 50 lb bass

[pete santini]

A few years back me and my brother used to whitetail hunt up in middleton nova scotia After we both tagged out on 2 nice bucks hunting was over. Our guides took us trout fishing .On the way we passed the annapolis river i asked the guides whats in there trout? No he said nothing but stripers and only in the summer . He said though there all big and they chase gaspereau "herring" after fishing he showed me pictures of these bass and honest to god there wasn't one of them under 45 lbs some way over 50 I';; have to dig out the picture of him holding one that size. The river is more like a canal barely 20 yards across and they just liveline herring and hammer them .Now its been about 15 years since i've been up there I wonder how it is now . I checked the fish and game records and a 63 lber was taken at st johns river at the reversing falls in 1979 .Seems to me i remember seeing an article somewhere that showed an ice fishery for striped bass somewhere up in the great white north . It makes me wonder if the new world record might live up there pete santini

[macojoe]

One may never know?? But sounds good!

[Slingah]

very interesting

[steelhead]

Road trip???
Feryy ride????

[MartinD18]

OTW had a story about that fishery a couple of years ago by a local from up there. I think it's been a while since they got fish like that but they still get smaller ones. Taking them through the ice is no longer legal. The thing is, there are at least small bass all the way up the coast of Maine and above Boothbay, NO ONE fishes for them. The season is pretty short - they're only around for about 6 or 8 weeks in the summer, but I've caught schoolies at Acadia in August from the beach...the big question is, are they fish that come down from Canada (there are MANY stripers in the rivers that flow inot the St. Lawrence) or are they fish they come up from the south???

[steelhead]

The Gulf of St. Lawrence or the river itself?

[pete santini]

In all . . .fish species there is a maximum distribution range. Most fish will go to where the conditions are to their preference,The largest strongest toughest or dumbest will range farther than there suppose to . To live or feed or spawn in less than perfect conditions. Now canada has a lot more mackeral than we do, well they hang around longer up there anyway,Whos to say that there isn't enormous bass with those mackeral or herring? The people do not target bass like we do and what about the bass living under the ice ? theres gotta be a separate " although probaly few and far between strain" of stripers up in the maritimes. Another thing if the locals get one its really not a big deal the fish goes into the chowder pot and no one knows.