stripers - length/weight

[Mike P]

Basically, I agree that a 41" bass that weighed 36 pounds would be maybe a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence--the shortest 30# fish I remember catching was right about 43", and it was a fatty. And that was 30 on the nose. Ever see the picture of the world record fish? 78-1/2 lbs, but "only" 53" long. It was a freak fish and it was stuffed with mullet. Ugliest striper I've ever seen, it had a girth of almost 3 feet. So it's not out of the question, but extremely unlikely that a 41 incher could run 36. Maybe, if it was March and this was the Chesapeake, or the Hudson, and that fish was full of roe and had been stuffing her face pre-spawn, it would a better candidate for that one-in-a-million category.