BilletHead Posted May 16 Posted May 16 Fishing Guide Breaks World Record for Largest Striper on a Fly | Outdoor Life grizwilson, Quillback, tjm and 5 others 6 2 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
FishnDave Posted May 17 Posted May 17 Wow, beautiful! And what a story! What a day they had! A bunch of 40"+ Stripers! The stuff dreams are made of... This made me reminisce... Other than a 47.5" Longnose Gar that didn't weigh anywhere near what that Striper would have weighed (but was caught on a 9wt fly rod)... my 2nd longest flyrod fish was a 41.5" Grass Carp, estimated at @ 35 lbs, caught on a 5wt fly rod with sun-degraded and abraded 8lb test mono tippet. That battle DID last a good 20 minutes! It was epic...massive triple beaver-like tail slaps on the surface when I set the hook (unseen, it ate the fly I was using for bluegills), then it speedily porpoised across the surface to the middle of the pond and then dove to the bottom and then headed towards the main basin. It was a long back-and-forth battle, with me repeatedly getting it to shore, only to have it turn and charge back to the depths again and again. I didn't have a net! So awesome! May 31, 2015. I've caught @ 250 Grass Carp on flies since then, but this one remains my largest. Terrierman, Daryk Campbell Sr and Hawg 2 1
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