I caught my first weak way before i caught my first striper......as a kid we would get them on the Cape..some big ones too...now they just happen every once in a while. The last weak i caught on the cape was about 5 years ago. We actually got into a good school of them, but they were all about 10-15inches long. At the time i thought it was a sing they were coming back......I guess not.....its so sad...I miss them very much