100lb stripers ??

[Goose]

Are they just rumors? Where's the pictures? Wheres the evidence? If your a commerial fisherman and you see what looks to be the mother of all bass wouldn't you atleast take a picture? Back in them days that picture would have been taken at the dock for all to see, no?? Where's the proof cause my search button is busted and I need to upgrade my cheesy tackle.

[Moses]

Timely topic - I was justing watching a fishing DVD over the weekend, Fishing For Trophy Striped Bass By Al Lorenzetti. In the DVD's opening statements as it is explaining stripers, etc.. it mentions the largest landed was either 100 or 125lbs in 1891 via nets from a boat. I'll confirm exact weight again when I get home tonite.

Anyone out there confirm or deny this statement? I think it was off the NC/SC coast too? I tried a few searches using different criteria but came up empty.

[Moses]

Not sure what I was searching for before but if you google "1891 and striper" you get many hits referring to this landing. 125lbs off NC coast.

[Offshore]

There is also a Maine record of about the same era of a 98 lb. Striper

[Mr. Sandman]

There are a bunch of written records...but no photos. I don't believe them. I also don't think Mr. Church's fish was 73, it was a great fish but it does not look like a 73.
There was a written record in the fulton fish market (ny) that had a 100# bass...gutted without the head! (est weight was 125)Also several in Long Island Sound in the late 1800's were records that had them to something like 98#s...again, no photos back then.

I want to see the fish and the measurements before I (really) believe it.

[Raven]

100 lb bass .....today....that wouldnt surprise me.

[quick decision]

Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman

There are a bunch of written records...but no photos. I don't believe them. I also don't think Mr. Church's fish was 73, it was a great fish but it does not look like a 73.
There was a written record in the fulton fish market (ny) that had a 100# bass...gutted without the head! (est weight was 125)Also several in Long Island Sound in the late 1800's were records that had them to something like 98#s...again, no photos back then.

I want to see the fish and the measurements before I (really) believe it.

Who caught that? John Gotti

[Pete F.]

I think just like with boats, length does not equal displacement. In other words a 20 foot boat displaces much more than twice what a ten foot boat does even if you just scaled it up.

[Swimmer]

Do I hear anyone saying gene splicing?

[Fish On]

I stopped believing in Santa just last year......I believe in the existence of the 100+ cows, at least in that they existed 100 years ago.

Nice job on the cropped photo. However, when you double the size I think you are acutally cubing the volume so I think the striper in the new photo would actually weigh more like 64 x 2 x 2 x 2 or 512 lbs. What a dream that would be!

[Ed B]

Fish On, you are correct. You dork you.

Mass is proportional to the volume which is a cubic equation. To show the approximate size of fish twice the weight. The size of the picture should be increased approximately 26 percent.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Boy engineers REALLY are dorks!
Hi Ed



BTW; Geologists arent much better