what is your biggest "surf" caught bass???

[Hooper]

These are some really cool stories! Those big fish have me looking towards next year already!

My biggest bass is 40# caught from the surf at Monomoy Point, October 31st, 1985 at age 13.

I was a freshman at Cape Cod Tech and in the commercial fisheries program with Dana Eldridge. One night a year, he would take us to the tar paper shack on Monomoy and we would explore the island, surf fish the point and generally have a great time. We cooked hot dogs and marshmallows, hiked to the lighthouse, fished the freshwater ponds for largemouth bass, and chased deer.

On the morning of the 31st, I woke at daybreak after sleeping in the dunes in our sleeping bags. I hiked to the point to find the tide in full flood, roaring hard. I threw an eel uptide letting it drift through the rip a few dozen times before hooking my fish. Within ten minutes, I dragged the biggest bass I'd ever seen up onto the sand. I will never forget that feeling. Then, I had to drag her to our boat which was a mile north of the point, no easy task! But I had bragging rights on that trip home.

That remains to this day, one of my greatest memories of my life.