First striped bass caught surf fishing in RI. Been surfing fishing a few times and never caught anything until now. I was using a huge rapala crank bait. Also foul hooked a skate! I had my fly rod out there too, but it was just to windy. I would have needed a 9-10 weight to over come the conditions. This striper was a baby but still put up a night fight in the surf.
I got out and trolled gleneida today for 4 hours. Not much luck but ended my reservoir shunk. Picked up this laker 20 feet down. Also saw two bald eagles, a fox and a group of deer. Bald eagle sitting in the tree in the pics below. The laker had all it's fins....could have been a native laker born in gleneida.
I got out and trolled, fly fishing and casted cranks on gleneida today. I had a nice couple of hours out there, rowed 3.3 miles (really a little more but my cell died). I had a pig brown come chasing my lucky craft pointer to the boat, looked to be about 20-21", could of went 4 to 5 pounds. I dont know how it didn't get hooked, it hit my lure, saw the whole thing right next to my boat. It was def very cool to see such a beautiful fish acting like a shark!
I had 3 hits trolling, 2 got off (one felt like a pig, 3 colors down) then i decided to go deep (8 colors) and picked up this nice 5 pound laker. This laker broke my clicking thing on my reel. As i was reeling it in, the click thing fell off, lol. Great looking laker, awesome shoulders on this one. Released it to become a trophy one day.
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Trip Details:
Surface temp: 41.6 degrees
Name: Gleneida
Activity type: Trolling
Description: -
Total distance: 5.23 km (3.3 mi)
Total time: 3:08:16
Moving time: 2:35:01
Average speed: 1.67 km/h (1.0 mi/h)
Average moving speed: 2.03 km/h (1.3 mi/h)
Max speed: 5.00 km/h (3.1 mi/h)
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Pictures:
Got out and trolled lake gleneida for a quick 2.5 hours. Had one nice hit but it got off. I did manage to land these two well fed stockies. One was 14" and the other was 12". Released to become really fat for next season.
