TimS Striped Bass, Weakfish and Fly Fishing Pictures

TimS Striped Bass, Weakfish and Fly Fishing Photos
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Yea, these are some of the thousands of striper fishing pictures I have...I could bore you with tons, but I won't! :) Coming soon, some of my fresh water adventure photo's....like the 22# Musky that ate a minnow in the middle of the night on 4# test and a trout rod with no leader...or the nearly 12# Walleyes that gobbled up Rapalas in the middle of the night in Canada!

Tim and Dubs with 44 pound striper taken on 10 pound test

Charlie and I, me on the left. This is the biggest striper I've personally ever taken...51 1/2" long, 44 1/4#. It took, of all things, a 6" Schoolbus Bomber...and on a 6' Berkley Lightning Rod, a small spinning reel, and 10# test...quite a handful! This happened in 1987...and not since! Well, I've stuck 'em this big...but now that I have the "right" tackle, I can't seem to land 'em! :(

Potential world record 10lbs 9oz weakfish on 8 pound tippet

Potential world record 5lb 10oz weakfish on 2lb tippet

This fat weakfish weighed 10lb 9oz...it was landed using 8# class tippet and if approved, would more than double the existing world record!

This one weighed 5lb 10oz...it was subdued on 2# class tippet! That stuff is about 1/2 as thin as spider web. The first hit when trying for the record, I hooked and busted the fly off before the line came tight! This was the second hit, if approved, would almost double the existing world record...hey, I tried! ;^)

Both these fish were landed on a soft action Orvis 9wt, a System II 8/9 reel, and Orvis intermediate shooting head, and Orvis tippet. I was surprised the rod was soft enough to cushion the 2# tippet against the second trout...it handled just fine!

**I had to edit out the IGFA portion of my descriptions of the tippets used - I got a letter from the president of the IGFA stating "the IGFA does not certify or approve fishing products." No problem Mr. Leech, consider it done :-) 07/01/02 TimS

35lb striped bass taken on a rigged eel during a pre-hurricane swell in NJ

Last years biggest fish for me, 35#, on a rigged eel just before one of the many hurricanes that hit our shores last year. I didn't measure it.

Pulling wire with jigs for a bunch of stripers over 20lbs with Teddy Stanek

Above, a couple years ago, with a fish around 20 taken from my friends Ted's boat while wire line trolling. There is nothing like wire line trolling for stripers, some heavy fish get taken that way and it's quite unique...and Ted's one of the best at it! Note the white skin, that's from only fishing at night!

15lb Striped Bass taken on home made fly rod popper during mullet run

Above and below are pictures of a 15# I took last fall on a fly rod...the fish took a homemade popper when the mullet were running...God, I love them mullet! That was my biggest surf fly rod fish last fall, not a bad one either...
. TimS with 15lb striper taken on fly rod

Below is a 31 pound specimen I took on a bomber in May inside Sandy Hook, it was a beautiful, fat fish. One of my biggest fish on the 6" schoolbus bomber, second only to the 44 pounder at the top of the page! Gotta love them bombers! Extremely fat 31lb striper taken on a schoolbus bomber - NJ in late May