1oz shy of the State record - Page 2 - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

RiverRatt · 04-06-2005, 06:29 PM

Nice fish!

Nice to see the Hatcheries are releasing fish that big .

tattoobob · 04-06-2005, 06:39 PM

Wow great catch, Congrats
Do you think you will have it mounted?

Rock Hopper · 04-06-2005, 07:01 PM

Way to go Roy

! That is the second or third time you just missed in the last couple of months...I just have a feeling you are going to get what you are after

Funny, I was just reading the newspaper article on you less than 10 minutes ago and I decided to jump on S-B to see what was going on....glad I did.

Hope you get the record...that would be awesome!

Kadir

Rock Hopper · 04-06-2005, 07:10 PM

Hello Don,

Great seeing you Sunday!!

Peter Lajoie · 04-06-2005, 07:50 PM

Way to go Roy, Keep up the good work..

Bazza · 04-06-2005, 08:11 PM

Nice job Roy!! I saw a picture in the globe on Tuesday and it mentioned some big ones were going in there. I got out today for the first fishing outing of the season.

Raven · 04-07-2005, 05:41 AM

great JOB! BRAVO!
i like the fish decals on yer truck too

atta boy ROYYY !

shaking head in Amazement......

Slipknot · 04-07-2005, 05:55 AM

NICE!
Close, very close but still impressive on 4 lb. test.

NIB · 04-07-2005, 06:38 AM

Nice fish Roy.Its almost as big as U.
I seen a show on Largemouth fishin in Cuba It rivals any scene in Mexico.basically unfished.

Tattoo · 04-07-2005, 06:42 AM

Roy,

First - WOW!

Second - Son of a!!!!!!

But I'm sure you already said that....

Joe · 04-07-2005, 08:44 AM

Congrats Roy - That's a heck of a fish.....
We've got some very good fishermen on this board - good company.

piemma · 04-07-2005, 11:54 AM

Congrats!!! GREAT FISH

Cod Hunter · 04-07-2005, 12:33 PM

Wow! Great fish. What did it eat?

RoyL · 04-07-2005, 02:52 PM

Thank you all for the replys. Don you are to kind and Kadir I will be talking to you soon man..Thanks. Okay Here's the storie. Me and my buddy Luis got to JP around 6am. We started at the boat house first and on my 6th or 7th cast I hooked up with one that weighed 15+lbs on a gold canduit spoon made by Thomas Co. About a 1/2 hour later my buddy hooked into a nice fat female that was about 26", but went 9lbs on the boga. thing slowed right down after that and we started to walk around the pond. We made it about two times around catching a few trout. We both decided to split up and go in oposite directions and call each other if we got into them since they like to travel in schools. about 10:30 i was walking past the point by the island when I saw one rise about 75' out and then another so I quickly cast my Yo-zuri aile pins minnow over the swirl and got to crank it about twice when that monster hit. It come out of the water and it looked like a Lab going in for a cripple. That was the last I saw that fish till an hour later when I tailed it in waist deep. I wish you guys could see what that line looked like. I'm curios to see what it's going to break at onece I send it in to NFWHOF for the all tackle world record for inland Salmon. The fish was 23lb on my Boga.

pete santini · 04-07-2005, 02:58 PM

Roy nice fish But you shoulda called me at the shop it was lot closer than driving out to westboro and it might have not have lost those 2 oz on the trip. Still a great fish take willie with you next time pete

pete santini · 04-07-2005, 03:10 PM

another thing Roy it looks like you just broke the igfa line class record for atlantic salmon if your line tests at 4 lb I'm a igfa rep for boston so give me a call and i'll walk you through the process pete

dondkim · 04-07-2005, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Rock Hopper

Hello Don,

Great seeing you Sunday!!

Kadir,

My wife always thought I was the only one out of control as Alberto labled me and after reading Roys article and meeting countless "OUT OF CONTROL" guys at the show my wife thinks I am not all that bad after all because I still have the same job.

It is 75 degrees today,

Don

Goose · 04-07-2005, 04:52 PM

Thats awsome dude! Good 4 u

Swimmer · 04-08-2005, 11:00 AM

Hey RoyL,
Thats age discrimination on the states part. Poor old fish stops producing eggs and they through it away.

RoyL · 04-08-2005, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swimmer

Hey RoyL,
Thats age discrimination on the states part. Poor old fish stops producing eggs and they through it away.

You think we got a case?

dondkim · 04-08-2005, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Rock Hopper

Hello Don,

Great seeing you Sunday!!

Kadir,

Greetings!!!

I have been daydreaming since yesterday after getting a call from my friend in Fairfield that he caught the first bass for this year on the way to work yesterday morning. You met Gene at Hartford show, the tall guy.

Give my best to Alberto.

Don

Rock Hopper · 04-08-2005, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by dondkim

Kadir,

Greetings!!!

I have been daydreaming since yesterday after getting a call from my friend in Fairfield that he caught the first bass for this year on the way to work yesterday morning. You met Gene at Hartford show, the tall guy.

Give my best to Alberto.

Don

Don,

It is always a pleasure to see you and this time, I finally had the pleasure of meeting your lovely wife. I will definitely give Alberto your best regards.

It is funny, most wifes (if they have not gone to shows or are not with their husbands on the water regularly) do not know how fanatical a lot of us fisherman are. That is the difference between being passionate about the sport and being passive. When you cannot find or think of something better to do than being on the water when it is cold, howling wind or even snowing, you are passionate....

My friend RoyL definitely fits that bill and then some as does Alberto and a handful of other.....they are what would be called "out of control" the rest of us are just border line psycho's

but still not normal anyway you cut it

Kadir