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MONSTER MONTAUK STRIPERS - part# 3
Jul 13 2008, 10:12 PM EDT | Post edited: Jul 13 2008, 10:12 PM EDT
I finally get to scoop it up and I can't just lift the net and fish into the boat...its BIG!! I use two hands and over the rail she comes.


WOW, wat a cow, the head and gut on this fish made me easily think it was mid to high fifties...its big and both Al who has a 60.25# and 50.5# striper with multiple high 40-49 pounders under his belt as well as my 55 and 51.5 and four 49-49.5# stripers under mine....its just plain BIG!

We did some video on my camera (but no IR illuminator) since the only thing missing, was my son, Cody, who immediately got a telephone call as well as my wife at 1:30AM to tell of ongoing success and the big fish on the deck. I took some pictures and video and back we went to work, four more fish into 35# hit the deck. THen we went to the light house at 2AM and started fishing three incoming spots, two to three drifts per spot with not hits, runs, or errors and at 2:30AM we called it a night.

With Fifteen big cows under our belt, it was a great night of typical Montauk striper fishing!

Back at the dock we immediately weighted the big female...the dock scale says it 50 on the button, I can't beleive that its at least 53-55lbs, It just seems very big, but the scale doesnt lie, OK off to bed, at 5:30 AM the dock opens, we get up put her on the digital scale and she tops at 49.60, SHit! so close yet so far, We are real guys who don't fool ourselves and a 50 is a 50 and a 49 is just a forty! Got to be true with yourself first! Well Al's birthday is tomorrow so here was his 51 year birhday bass! Good going Al! and it is the way its been for 31 years we have fished to gether, whenever we get into big fish, he is always rigt next to me. Sorry Cody missed this night, it was a great one for the memory books!

Here are some photos
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