Posts tagged “connecticut

STRIPED BASS: Poachers Caught in Connecticut

Posted on September 26, 2008

Via Stripers Forever, this news report about a fisherman caught with $3,000 worth of poached striped bass. Poachers and anglers who keep illegal fish or ignore limits, even if for personal use rather than selling, offend me as much as anyone, because they weaken the argument that the recreational side will be the more responsible stewards. So don’t be that asshole who makes us look like we’re just as greedy and are only fighting for a larger piece of the pie to exploit. Like this guy: The fisherman, Sean Bradshaw, 44, of Pawcatuck, was charged with the landing and sale of striped bass without a commercial license, commercial fishing without a vessel permit, possession of untagged striped bass and the commercial sale of scup…

STRIPED BASS: We Must Overtake Them on the River

Posted on May 28, 2008

  I’d been shut out in my few beach expeditions for spring bass, and thought the best way to hook into one, a big one, was to meet the stripers on their turf. Right now the striped bass are running the river mouths along the East Coast. I met up with Jason Puris of thefin.com, and we hoped to get in touch with some big 20-plus pounders up in Connecticut. For that we hooked up with Mike Warecke. On my first cast I hooked up with my first striper of the year, a healthy ocean fish in the 10-12 pound class.   Jason hooked up with bass from the same class. At the start of outgoing in the morning we cast Mike’s Minnows (Warecke’s variant on…

  

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