They are finally getting here-

[Hooper]

Miles

Can you post a larger pic of that fish, looks like shes worth taking a closer look at!

Man, I hate winter, rain and low 40's now, and a real dive in the temp predicted for this week.

-Hooper

[Miles Offshore]

Thanx guyz, Ill try and keep catching and releasing but no guarantee's when that 50+" comes along. Wore em out again yesterday but no slobs. The word is that a lot of big fish are still heading down from Jersey and have yet to arrive !!! Fishing in T-shirts yesterday but that will change tomorrow!!! Hooper, that pic is of my younger son with his first Va. Citation a couple of years ago. If I remember right the fish was ~44". Thanx for asking though, here is the blown up version:

[John R]

Great pic Miles - can't wait til my son lands a big linesider!

Oh - when I get a Fifty its coming home too [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] ... Still waiting to get a 40 pounder, best to date is 37 pounds/45+ inches from the beach...

[Miles Offshore]

Hey John, Scott, Hooper- there getting bigger!!!! 49lbs 4 oz and 52" long with a 30" girth. Also heard of a 54 and another 49 lber caught last weekend- Sounds like its time for a seacraft winter rockfish tournament!!!!

[John R]

Miles - great fish! Excellent! Your biggest to date?

Using the accepted LxGxG/800 formula, it would have been 58#s [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] - My bro-in-law had one with similar dimensions 49x30 and it went 52.5 ('course he had to lug it across nearly 2 miles of beachsand to get it to the truck)

[Miles Offshore]

John, I screwed it up- beer theory got me, I did not catch that fish-just posted the picture [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] . My best to date is only 48" and a fat 41 lb.But the season is just getting under way!!!!

[John R]

"only" 48 inches - 2 shy from an undisputed Trophy Bass (well, they're all trophies). Wanna know the killer part? These fish in late September, Oct, Nov are feeding and feeding and fattening up. They find that gravy train of big bait and chow and that 48 inch fish probably breaks 50 pounds (or certainly close to it) but then swims that fat off during its 500 mile journey south to the the Chesapeke. Fact is that 500 mile journey os probably over a thousand the way those fish move.

As for you friends 49#er - I'd have a hard time thinking that fish wasn't over 50 pounds for a good portion of its trip south.

Me - I'm stuck at 37 pounds (still) but its a beach fish so it counts for more, hehehehe