Funny Story - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Navy Chief · 08-02-2004, 02:50 PM

Okay, I'm at work and at lunch time I look out my window and see Bluefish Blitzing. It's really cold where I work so I figure I'll go do the catch and release thing for lunch. Start throwing a popper and land a couple racers. Move down the bank a little and hook another small Bluefish, he gets 15 feet from shore then swims straight up onto the beach in a real big hurry. There's a 20 lb Linesider chasing him. So I throw the bluefish back in the water about ten feet and he races back onto dry land. Mr Bass is still circling. So I pull out my plug and eyeball the blue, toss him out, and open my bail. Mr Striper takes the bait and starts cruising out. I wait, I wait... then I wait so more. Flip the bail, take slack, set hook........

and Reel in a Bluefish head.

RIJIMMY · 08-02-2004, 02:57 PM

? The bass bit the blue in half? Not likely, may have been a bigger blue or some type of shark.

The Iceman 6 · 08-02-2004, 03:06 PM

Still a good lunch....

Navy Chief · 08-02-2004, 03:07 PM

I'm sure it was the striper. It wasn't perfectly sliced like if it was a Blue. Ragged cut, and I saw the striper take it.

bloocrab · 08-02-2004, 05:15 PM

.... something fishy about that story, you may want to watch the instant replay in . . . . . "slow-motion"

Have you ever seen the size of the teeth on a 20# striper ??? ....Stripers normally eat whole fish - - head first...so you just getting the head back,

throws a different twist to the story never mind severing the bluefish all-together. I'm not in anyway saying your "fish-tale-ing" here...just giving you my opinion. I've never even seen a striper cut through an old piece of mushy mackerel...they normally, (and pardon my expression

) suck it down to the throat area and work it in from there. Could the striper have worked it down to that area ? Sure....could he have mangled up the neck area of the bluefish ? Sure....Could he have severed the spine??

hmmmmm.....exactly how small was this bluefish? Even a small bluefish has a thick spine....and I know, I've seen Clammer rip a couple of bluefish heads right off their bodies...

Instant Replay Results =During Instant Replay it was noted that as the striper made the turn away from the angler with the bluefish protruding from it's mouth, a larger Bluefish bumped the striper in the head/mouth area in the attempt of stealing the meal - thus causing the striper to drop the smaller bluefish allowing the larger bluefish to use his razor sharp teeth to sever the head from the bluefish that you originally caught.

B-assman · 08-02-2004, 07:20 PM

"Really Cold" in Middletown?

Interesting story - but I've got to agree I've never seen a striper that could decapitate a blue.

Boy I guess we are a bunch of skeptical bastages!

afterhours · 08-02-2004, 07:27 PM

maybe it was a big blue in a striper suit or a shark using the striper to decoy

RI Popper · 08-02-2004, 08:59 PM

Hummmmmmm, sounds interesting. what looks like a striper and bites blues in half??? Maybe a large blue mixed in the bunch took it from the striper. can't think of anything else. accept of corse Land Shark"pizza man".