02-18-2009, 03:51 AM
Mine was a 36", 20 lb striped bass caught in the Delaware River between NY and PA, about 150 miles upstream from the ocean. I was fishing for smallmouths out of a rented paddle raft. I had a 5' ultra light rod, 4lb stren, and was throwing a black and silver #7 husky jerk. I was with my wife, my sister and her husband and we were all pretty drunk. I hooked into this monster which nearly spooled me, I was pleading with 3 drunken paddlers to row the raft upstream. Naturaly, they are falling down, dropping paddles, laughing their butts off. I finaly got the fish in the boat ! We still talk about that day everytime we see each other. I didn't realize there were stripers that far up but I found out that some 40lbers have been caught.
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