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Bad Day of Work = Time to go Striper Fishing
By Kelly MacCormack
Just wanted to share a little fish story to everyone! So I had a wicked bad day at work (you know the type of day I am talking about....the first day back to hell after a nice sunny vacation!!!) So on my ride home I thought... hmmmm who would want to fish??!!
I jumped on the phone to my brother Mike (founder of this group) and didn't hear back from him, so I called the boyfriend to see what he had planned ( watching the home run derby.....not a bad second choice of activities but fishing is way better). So anyways I make plans to see him, then Mike calls....he's ready to head out the door immediately to hit a hot spot for stripers. So I call the boyfriend back and blow off our plans together....I had to, fishing comes first.
Mike and I head out, a 15 minute drive to walk a mile down the tracks (mind you we didn't know when the next train was) in the heat...I was starting to think that the home run derby was a better idea.
Well we arrive at the "hot spot" and toss out some fresh Macs from Mike's earlier fishing adventure. Not 6 minutes later, my rod goes off. I knew then that the night would be fun! I land about a 20-24 inch fish, not bad....he put up a cute fight.
Then 15 minutes later WHAM my rod goes off again, this time the fish is screwing up the channel and I am fighting to hang on. Mike is walking me through things making sure the tip is up and I let the fish run. After a good 15/20 minute fight I see a shadow in the water, its my fish! Mike jumped in the water (shoes and all) to grab up the fish. We tape it to find that it was 41 inches long. By far the biggest fish I have ever caught. I landed a 38 last year and set my goal this year for over 40.
Thanks entirely to Mike, any advice that Mike has given to me has put me on the fish, and I am saying that because he's my brother, I am saying it because he is one hell of a fisherman.
Thanks Mike for helping me reach my fish goal this year!!!
Your the BEST!
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In the San Francisco Chronicle today was an outdoors article about a Cal grad student that needed to catch a sturgeon as research for an article she was writing... She got more than you could ever hope for with the help of Keith Fraser. Grad student will have a whopper of a fish story
It was a bright, sunny blue sky day, and with no wind, the bay was flat and glassy calm. "Perfect," Fraser said. The crew boarded at 2:40 p.m., Fraser fired up the engine, and they cruised up San Pablo Bay to the northern apex of the Sturgeon Triangle, just east of the pumphouse. With the depth finder, Fraser found 11 feet of water, his magic spot, and dropped the anchor.
From the recent rains, the water was chocolate brown, and with the outgoing tide sweeping past the boat, conditions appeared perfect. "These are the kind of conditions that a sturgeon addict would dream about," Fraser said.
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Suddenly, the sturgeon emerged on the surface: It was 7 feet long and weighed an estimated 150 to 160 pounds. Its belly was swollen, full of sturgeon eggs.
"Oh my God," Wollan said. She was otherwise speechless, in shock.
Many anglers fish a lifetime in hopes of hooking a 100-pound sturgeon, and here she had landed one on her first bite.
Fraser smiled, knowing he had just inducted a new member into the 100-Pound Club. He reached overboard, grabbed the hook with a pair of pliers, and dislodged it from the round, vacuum-cleaner-like mouth of the sturgeon. In the next second, the big fish swam away and disappeared into the darkness.
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Recently I asked a fishing list, to which I am a subscriber, what I was doing wrong to only be catching sharks... Here is the best reply from a happy anonymous fisherman... Thank you for the inspiration...
You can try the outside like seal rocks or point bonita or hmb area.attached is a photo of last Sunday's halibut.
34#'s on the scale.
Caught outside of hmb. Using a artificial lure
Next question... how was it prepared for the dinner table?
Have a trophy catch with a story to match? Tell your fish story to SFBoater with a picture..
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