It turns out that all stocked striped bass were descendants of stripers that were transported from the East Coast and stocked in the delta near San Francisco Bay ~ in 1879! The locals must love being able to catch Chesapeake stripers right there in their lake, right? Actually, no. For some weird Southwest reason, they prefer large-mouth bass. They consider rockfish a trash fish. Most average 12 to 18 inches, but some mounted in a ranger station ran up to 48 inches. Locals say there are so many of them that they are threatening the “good” forage fish they like. Go figure. THE LARGEST ROCK This is the current world record
rock f ish. It was caught in Connecticut waters by Greg Myerson (seen here) on August 4, 2011. The largest rock f ish ever caught by hook-and-line, it weighed 81.9 lbs and measured 54 inches long. Yep, that’s quite a fish, all right. She’s a real whopper! But, there’s a problem with this one being the
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