New World Record Striper Caught-Can Anyone Confirm

[Pool winner!!!]

can anyone here hold 82lbs straight out in front of you???

[cece1]

Saw the pic. Thats no record unless there is lead in the belly. Love to see a different pic on the scale.

[ChaosStarter]

That was a crazy friggin story.

[Supafly]

The fish will be entered for a record! Sounds like the guy deserved it and he kept fishing after he caught it

http://www.epicblitz.com/2011/08/thi...nd-stream.html

[tautog]

Answers a lot of questions and rumors. Still amazing that he has like 4 fish over 60 in the past 2 years and holds a full time job. Maybe striper guides in his area need to work harder..*S*

[tautog]

Still hard to believe a 54" striper weighed 81 plus though. It is fat, but doesn't look that fat. I had a fat 55" fish that I had to release out at Nantucket shoals that was maybe in the mid 60s.

[Andycw]

fyi - google it;

Fishermen around the area are anxiously awaiting word on whether a striped bass caught in Long Island Sound is a new world-record.

Jack Katzenbach of Jack's Shoreline Bait & Tackle in Westbrook said angler Greg Myerson, 43, of North Branford, brought in a striper that weighed in at 81.88 pounds."He was just trying to enter it into the Striper Cup," Katzenbach said. This fish was reportedly caught off a boat using live eels. Myerson had already headed home, while Katzenbach and others are worked to figure out how to get the fish recorded as the largest striper caught.

The fish is larger than current record-holder, a 78.8 pound striped bass caught in New Jersey by Albert McReynolds in 1982. At Jack's Shoreline Bait & Tackle, Katzenbach said the phone has not stopped ringing.

Reports are circulating through the sport-fishing world of the possible record-breaker, but there has been no confirmation from any official source yet.


Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/...#ixzz1UMcLTx1Q

[Supafly]

This is fantastic

http://www.epicblitz.com/2011/08/hit...iped-bass.html

[JBird]

"Those yellow eyed demons nicked my line! Stupid flourocarbon!"
That's some funny s**t, man.

[pulltaug]

Here’s the facts, reported to us by Connecticut-based OTW writer Kierran Broatch: This morning, Striper Cup angler Greg Myerson weighed in a striped bass that registered 81.88 pounds on the scale at Jack’s Shoreline in Westbrook, Connecticut – almost 12 hours after it had been landed Thursday evening aboard a boat in Long Island Sound.

If Myerson’s fish is certified by the IGFA, it will be the new all-tackle world record striped bass.

I am trying to upload a photo but it won't let me!!!
GRRR

http://www.onthewater.com/fishing/81...d-bass-update/