actually whether they are true facts or not is suspect, all info found on the internet
1. The largest striped bass ever recorded was a 125 pound female from North Carolina, 1891.
2. The oldest ever recorded was 31 years of age.
3. The average Chesapeake Bay 6-year-old female striped bass produces 500,000 while a 15-year-old can produce over three million eggs.
6 year old females range from 26"- 28" at 7 - 10.3#
15 year old female is @ 44" weighing between 29 - 41#'s.
Don't quote me but I believe the largest fish I ever heard of taken from my home waters was 70+lbs. If memory serves me the fish was taken down by the Tapanzee Bridge on a chunk. Not sure when it was taken but sure it was sometime in this Century.
1. a 28" fish produces @ 500,000 eggs, the class fish Mass residents could kill last year, the begining of the sexually mature fish
2. a 15 year old fish produces over 3MM eggs, and is around 44"
I don't see how people can not support a 36" or greater limit.
Good Point. Presumably one would think of taking a fish that has a lesser chance of reproducing. If you want to laugh our limit is 1 fish per angler per day greater than 18 inches. Once you keep the fish you must stop fishing for them not even catch and release after
...If you hold the beast by the mouth the stripes are vertical but if you hold it gently/kindly/supported under the belly the stripes are horizontal! Gofigure...
...I think the "regulating" folks are a bunch of paid off self serving bastards who are so far outa' touch they actually think they have a clue! And the uneducated phishkillering "lemmings" and whitebucketbrigade will soon wonder what happened after it's TOO LATE...:razz:
...I think the "regulating" folks are a bunch of paid off self serving bastards who are so far outa' touch they actually think they have a clue! And the uneducated phishkillering "lemmings" and whitebucketbrigade will soon wonder what happened after it's TOO LATE...:razz:
There were actually several of those 125 lb. bass, according to "Fishes of the Gulf of Maine."
"The bass grows to great size, the heaviest of which we have found definite record being several of about 125 pounds that were taken at Edenton, NC, in April 1891."
Smith, North Carolina Geol. and Econ. Surv., vol.2, 1907, p. 271.
Would be interesting if there were more info in the survey, if someone had access to a library that had it.
How old do you think a fish of that weight would be?
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