What was Your Best Night This Season? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

libassboy · 12-01-2005, 11:31 AM

October, was on a school of bass all over 38", got several around the 42" mark. The interesting thing about it was the fish hit as soon as the moon came up, usually a bright moon like that will put the fish down. The bite lasted till the moon set, great nite and all about 2 minutes from my house

Double_D · 12-01-2005, 12:18 PM

August,Ocean Beach, San Francisco...I was getting e-mail,PM's,and phone calls for two days telling me where the bite was, I get there with a friend and not a soul to be found...ok I get it, it's my turn to be the whipping boy(the run stopped earlier in the day), so we said what the heck, it's sundown lets chuck some Bombers, right a sunset it gets hot for three hours it's fish on maybe 8 fish all school size up to 15.lb
for me..you had to be there San Francisco, summer time ,as the sun goes down, just me and my buddy...we don't get the striper runs you guys get.

Christian · 12-01-2005, 12:45 PM

had schoolies all day up at pi. then went over to a black sluggo when it got dark and got one about 36" on the first cast. from then on i got fish on just about everycast. i had 30 that would have been over 30". one fish was over 40". that was october 3rd i think. and my hands still havent fully healed.

baldwin · 12-01-2005, 01:13 PM

Long Island Sound. October. I put on an old Gibbs Darter, the ones that work much better than those new ones. I lost a large fish on the first cast. On the second cast, I had a small fish, lost it and the plug in some rocks. I was bummed about losing the plug. The three of us caught many fish. I got somewhere around 20 bass, largest about 45". One of my fishing buddies also caught a little 25" bass on a white stubby needlefish. It was wearing my Gibbs Darter from its lip. NICE!

5/0 · 12-01-2005, 01:17 PM

This night sticks out in my mind the most cause it wasn't planed & it was time well spent w/ my son Colby.
It was early evening mid July.I just finished cutting the grass & tought it would be a nice night to take my son to the Canal to drift some eels for the last 2 hours of the tide & be home by 2300.

Half hour into the trip we caught our first bass it was 24" or so.an hour later with a couple of hits but no fish,my son say's Dad can we go home if you catch one more fish?I said yes.
By now it's just about slack,I put on a big frisky eel,tossed it out there hoping to nail a nice fish.1st drift nutin,2nd drift nutin,the thrid cast nice slow drift half way into the drift I feel the eel moving violently,I waiting for it to go flying but......Nothing,alls quiet.So I started to reel-em in,then my line suddenly get's tight and zips in the opposit derection.
After small fight I landed her she was just over 47" & a lil over 38#. My Son couldn't belive the size of her!

A nice unplaned 3hr. trip to the Canal w/ my Son and landed a nice fish to boot!

5/0

bart · 12-01-2005, 01:37 PM

that's awesome Bob!

Rappin Mikey · 12-01-2005, 02:01 PM

June 27th, tons of big bass blitzin on the beach for two hours. Most fish I've ever caught at one time. I don't think there was one short in the entire school. Everything on top water too. Awesome, completely awesome.

Squibby17 · 12-01-2005, 02:01 PM

My best night was in Early October. I went to one of my old haunts a few weeks before and caught a nice 34'' bass. I told my friend who had caught about 500 schoolies this year but no keepers to meet me at the spot cause I had a good feeling I could put him on some decent fish.

Well i get there and he is no where to be found. I had him pick up the eels so I was eel less and by myself for the first hour. Well I imediatly started catching bass on my trusty yellow broken back rebel, all small fish. My friend finally shows up as the tide was dead low. We move to my favorite rock and rig up the eels. After five minutes he hooks up with a good sized fish. I coach him through the whole thing and help him land a nice 38'' bass. He is real pumped, by far his biggest bass ever. Not 2 minutes later I get a hit and lay into a nice fish. My reel is screaming and I think I may have my first 30# fish. Well I may have milked the moment a little to much, I land it and its a 37" bass. Needless to say I was still happy but felt a little foolish taking 15 minutes to land a 17 lb fish.

After that the heavens opened up and we fished in a constant downpour. We caught several more bass all 30" plus. It wasn't my most successful night of the year but seeing my buddy fighting that fish was awesome!!

crash · 12-01-2005, 02:02 PM

One day in September none of my friends could fish. Being a new boater I didn't want to take my boat out myself but I had to do it. I get out to my spot and the mayhem began, so many fish so little time. I was the only person on the water until dusk. I hope to have another day like that someday.

RickBomba · 12-01-2005, 04:53 PM

Yup,
I slept through the big blitz at RP...my second day of a week's vacation after opening the busiest Bugaboo Creek to date.
Mikey and I did ok the day before, and the day he went out I just couldn't get out of bed (my girlie was leaving that day for Boston, so I spent some time with her...OOPS).
Anyhow, the rest of the week, I caught more keepers in six days then the rest of my life combined.
Mikey and I talked about it the other day...didn't have one short all week.
Later,
Rick