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07-19-2008, 04:46 PM
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Steve "Van Staal"
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Cranston
Posts: 544
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74 pound Striper
I just heard(confirmed) a 74 pound striper was boated today at B.I.. Fish was weighed at Pt. Judith. Angler unknown at this point.
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07-19-2008, 04:58 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Wow, records will be broken this year
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07-19-2008, 05:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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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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Why even try......... 
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07-19-2008, 05:09 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,690
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thats a new state record  |
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07-19-2008, 08:33 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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actually 75.4 on the RISAA site.
We are going to have a tough time beating that, it was also weighed in for OTW Striper Cup
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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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Quote:
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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07-19-2008, 10:54 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 2
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where are the pics of this thing. i've got to see this. thats incredible.
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07-19-2008, 11:15 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Fall River
Posts: 238
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OTW is gonna have to make a 70 pin!
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rather be fishin'
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07-20-2008, 05:21 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: On the Island
Posts: 541
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Someone has to have a pic of that beast.
OR a link to the story.
Maybe they are keeping quiet till IGFA gets a look at it???
We wouldn't want anymore scandals like the fluke fiasco.
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"It's not about the fish, it's about fishing for the fish. The fish is gravy."
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07-20-2008, 06:15 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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cool news
glad to know these monsters
are still out there....
i can't wait for more info
Last edited by Raven; 07-20-2008 at 09:18 AM..
Reason: toon
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07-20-2008, 07:16 AM
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Trophy Hunter Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: THE Other Cape
Posts: 2,508
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that's freeeekin' Feeshnominal!!
congrats to the boatguy who landed her.
would also love to see the pix of that Monstah!!!
verrrrry encouraging, except isn't BI kind of a long cast from
the Gansett?? stinking no fish close on the NShore either......
unbelievably SLOW start to my season this year.
anyone else? |
"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, 07:45 AM
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Finally
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: FL
Posts: 7,181
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BassDawg
that's freeeekin' Feeshnominal!!
congrats to the boatguy who landed her.
would also love to see the pix of that Monstah!!!
verrrrry encouraging, except isn't BI kind of a long cast from
the Gansett?? stinking no fish close on the NShore either......
unbelievably SLOW start to my season this year.
anyone else? |
Peter Vican stuck the cow and CONGRATS to him. He spends a lot of time fishing the island and knows it well. Well deserved fish for Peter, he puts a lot of time in. |
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07-20-2008, 08:31 AM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,408
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Good god damn.
monster fish.
I guess sand eels + bass = great fishing
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Bryan
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"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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07-20-2008, 08:39 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Congrats to Peter  - that's huge! (and should be a new state record once all the Ts are dotted and Eyes are crossed) |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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07-20-2008, 04:39 PM
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M.S.B.A.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: I live in the Villiage of Hyannis in the Town of Barnstable in the Commonwealth of MA
Posts: 2,795
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Awesome fish and I am so glad it was caught by an angler that puts in his time.
Sandman...I can second the rumor of an over seventy pound bass caught on Orient Point...I receved a call some time ago telling me the fish was caught and during the call I was told no one would here who or where until the fall...things theat make you go hmmmmmm
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"It is impossible to complain and to achieve at the same time"--Basic Patrick (on a good day)
 
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07-20-2008, 04:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 41
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Congratz to the angler for having the oportunity to fight such a fish.
TBD
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07-20-2008, 07:32 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Franklin Ma
Posts: 402
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Killer fish!
I spoke to Ron at Breachway Bait and Tackle today when I was driving in from fishing. He saw the fish in person and claimed it was 55" long and incredibly thick. Congrats, Peter!
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07-20-2008, 07:46 PM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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Nice hat.
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Ski Quicks Hole
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07-20-2008, 07:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Beverly
Posts: 513
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That sure is one impressive fish.
Seeing this guy is a vetern angler you would think he would have a larger set up fishing eels? Not to question it, Just amazing to reel a fish like that in on a medium sized rod.
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"You should have been here yesterday"
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07-20-2008, 10:09 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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You really can't tell a hell of a lot about how ballsy a rod is when the guy's holding it up straight.
The reel looks to be a Penn Slammer 560 in the pictures I saw. You can get plenty of 50# braid on one of them. Tony Stetzko used a Penn 650, which isn't much bigger, for his 73. And he wasn't fishing 50# test line, either. McReynolds used a Penn 710 which is about the same size as a 560 Slammer.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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07-21-2008, 05:02 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Coventry, RI
Posts: 579
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 Couldn't have happened to a better guy than Pete. He puts his time in and certainly gets his share. What people don't know is how generous he is, especially to the RISAA charities. Among them he has for years made signficant contributions to the "Take a City Kid Fishing" days that the club puts on. Good things should happen to good people. Congrats to Peter!!! |
Catch'em up,
ThomCat
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07-21-2008, 09:07 AM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
Posts: 3,781
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THAT'S AWESOME!
there was a 70 pounder taken somwhere in NY I assume, it was on the cover of The Fisherman this past week!
so with this rumored one from Orient Point, that would make three 70's taken this year????? I wonder how many seasons that has happened?
Also great to see a seasoned guy get it, not some lucky newbie that got on a charter or something.
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07-21-2008, 09:33 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,295
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Great fish.
I thought I remember reading that right before the last collapse there were many large fish caught - is tha correct?
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07-21-2008, 09:54 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southern NH
Posts: 3,781
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True ^^^^^
But here is hoping that that correlation does not meet todays conditions of the stock.
Rock on Striped Bass 
Congrats to Peter on a fantastic bass  |
Good health and family
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07-21-2008, 02:58 PM
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Lubina Estriada!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 307
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Nice score Peter. Oh man, the SF hat to boot! lol
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Kayak Fishing Baby! Fish Reel Hard!
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07-21-2008, 10:15 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: North Cambridge, MA
Posts: 1,358
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Good to see big fish like that landed.
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07-21-2008, 10:42 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: East Taunton
Posts: 658
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Are there as many fish being kept, or sold today as there where before the last collapse? It seems as though there is alot more awareness and preventitive measures being taken now than there where then.
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