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07-20-2008, 09:55 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Originally Posted by Flaptail
Wow! Lucky bastage, wasn't there suppossedly a 86 pounder caught and weighed there in the late 1800"s, unfortunately the documentation was lost or something I guess. Land of the big ones for sure!
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Yeah, Flap, there was an 86 pounder caught - and the operative phrase here is 'supposedly caught' - on the Island in 1887. The fisherman was a Providence attorney and politician named Francis W. Miner who summered on the Island at the Ocean View Hotel near Old Harbor. There was a bass stand right out back although a number of them were erected shortly afterwards.
If memory serves (and it doesn't very well lately, it seems  ), the stand Miner caught the bass from was built by Henry Steers, nephew of James R Steers, the 87 year old guy pictured in my avatar. The stands and 2 of the 3 clubhouses are gone now, over the edge at Mohegan Bluffs. Miner's house is still there and now called Bit-O-Heaven and the locals refer to the area as Miner's Point.
As it turns out, the Steers in my avatar (which I didn't know when I used it in the logo for The Angler's Art) is the great-great-grandfather of my best friend who was also my best man. (Boy, is that weird - but then he actually does look like him in profile) Can't say fishing is genetically influenced though - my best bud isn't much of an angler, he couldn't catch crabs in a Cambodian cathouse.
The Steers brothers were well known as naval architects and ship-builders. They designed and built the yacht America and sailed it to victory in 1851 to start the America's Cup.
Anyway, Miner's fish was never - to my knowledge - verified.
However, there was a photographer on the Island at that time who took pictures of the notable catches of the day and I have a recent lead on one of his descendents - who has his original photos.
Stay tuned  |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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07-20-2008, 10:26 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: NY
Posts: 254
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07-20-2008, 10:29 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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WOW! What a fattie! I want to know the length and girth on that pig?!?!
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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07-20-2008, 10:32 AM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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WOW!
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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07-20-2008, 10:44 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,125
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Congrats to that guy
Holy crap!!!!
did he get it on that rod and reel I wonder?
That is awesome  |
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07-20-2008, 11:18 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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I heard from several sources that another high 70 was taken from Orient Point. I think your best bet for a fish like that is fish the race or gut with live scup or bunker deep.
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07-20-2008, 11:36 AM
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Trophy Hunter Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: THE Other Cape
Posts: 2,508
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THAT, is a BEE yoo Teee!
nice girth and a job WELL DONE, Mr Vican!!
thanks for the pic and article, fumi.
legendary waters for,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Prolific Stripers, just ask Mr Cinto!!! |
"The first condition of happiness is that the connection
between man and nature shall not be broken."~~ Leo Tolstoy
Tight Lines, and
Happy Hunting to ALL!
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07-20-2008, 01:30 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Slipknot
Congrats to that guy
Holy crap!!!!
did he get it on that rod and reel I wonder?
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If he caught on the spinner, that would be a 'double' holy crap.  |
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