Chesapeake Bay Striper Young of the Year Reproduction at Record Low

Stiripers Forever shares some very disturbing news.

Maryland officials have released information on the 2012 Young of the Year count for striped bass, and it is very bad.

Maryland officials blame the poor results on weather, and they say that there are normal ups and downs in the process. However if you look at the graph that appears in the link, and study the statistics a bit, you will see that spawning success over the last 5 to 10 years is about half of what it was during the 1990s before the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission allowed the commercial catch to return to levels reached prior to the crash of the 70s.

This LINK will take you to the full report on the MD DNR website. 

Montauk Bass Blitz

From Peter Correale on Vimeo.

(via: Fishing Jones)

With the Crowds Gone, It’s Down to Serious Fishing

The Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, as the tournament is called, is no ordinary contest. It lasts five full weeks, enough time for participants to lose themselves completely in a compulsive competition that turns their lives upside down. At the same time, it knits the local community of 15,000 full-time residents back together after they lived among a population that swelled to 105,000 at the height of the summer.

LINK (via: The NY Times)

The Brewster Flats

The Brewster Flats of Cape Cod Bay are the widest expanse of tidal flats in North America, rivaled in the western hemisphere only by a similar expanse in Brazil.

A couple of the locals.

Vintage Chum - Stripers and Beach Rigs

Frank "Slaughterhouse" Frezza with his Model A Ford in 1951

Dick Samms Model A 1952 - Purchased from Frezza

Chris Leigh 1963

Blaise Bookis 1968

1 Mor Kast - Blaise Bookis 1969

Images via Striper Surf Club

Stripers don’t know these flies are for bonefish

Build a fly that's bonefish tested, striper approved.

LINK (via:The Herald News)