New Virginia State Record Striped Bass

[Miles Offshore]

Breaking news....Carolyn Brown of Va Beach weighed in a 63 lb striped bass this afternoon. THIS WILL BE A NEW STATE RECORD (previously 61-12). All are waiting on the dock at Long Bay Pointe for Claude Bain to come down and make it official.

The crew were fishing on the Fishateer, owner Linda Stenke, Captain Larry Mattocks, Carolyn, and Debbie Hurst aboard. They were fishing off Corolla light in 39 degree water, about 50 ' deep.

The incredible part of the story is: they were pulling a double rig of a parachute and a 9" white storm lure. Two fish hit at the same time; a 25 pounder hit the parachute rig, the monster hit the storm lure. After finally getting both fish to the boat NO NET. So the captain got on the swim platform and lipped both fish into the boat.

The fish measured in at 50 inches length and 33 1/4 inches in girth.

Congratulations on ONE HUGE FISH Carolyn. We're all proud of the catch.

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[ocuyler]

Nice! What kind of boat is that?

[Miles Offshore]

Otto, its a 30' Osprey -looks to be a very sweet boat. It was running beside us a couple of weeks ago and made my jaw drop. It has like a 15' cabin thats looks really nice and it is powered with twin i/o's,dont know what kind of motors. We were cruising at 26 knots and they just walked right on by us. That is also the fattest damn rockfish I have ever seen in my life!!!

[Ed]

Holy Crap-----

Never ever seen a bass that like that before.

Ed