OK, folks, here's the official 2009 Stiperheads clave dates. Area 4 Nickerson State Park, Cape Cod.
Spring fishing - The Incoming - June 7 thru June 14th
Striperheads Clave - Sept 27 - Oct 4 Official Clave weekend.... October 2,3,& 4th 2009.
For information or inquiries contact me a mykiss@nycap.rr.com
This Blog is dedicated to, and for the use of, a group of trout fishermen turned saltwater flyfisher men and women who pursue the striped bass and bluefish of Cape Cod. It is open to anyone who wishes to share in the experience.
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Captain Ahab Adams goes Striper Fishing
Some of you know that I have a propensity for printmaking. Currently I am in a learning curve for wood engraving. This picture commemorates an occurrence that took place just off Saints Landing in the beginning years of the Striperheads experience.
Some of you may also remember the little 14 foot freshwater skiff that Aaron Adams and I would venture out in, and which we lovingly named "The Tin Cup". I have never much liked the trek from the boat launch to the Brewster Flats in rough seas, because of the distance from the launch. But one day, the seas were tame enough to let Captain Aaron "Ahab" Adams and I to venture out in the diminutive craft.
From the perspective of the wading Flats Area, off to the right and farther out into Cape Cod Bay, was the confluence of three channels draining the outgoing tide from both Saints Flat and Breakwater Beach. The area was such a turmoil of churning currents and rollicking standing waves, it resembled Odysseus's monster, Charybdis.
Suddenly, like an apparition, a large, looming 18 foot fin emerged from the tumultuous roil of water, rolled purposely from west to east. The tip of the monstrous appendage left an arching trail of water droplets, iridescent in the setting sun, before re-immersing into the black depths of the briny apocalypse.
This can't be good, I thought.
Seemingly to prove me right, Super- Biologist Aaron leaped up, balanced on the 4 square inch front corner of the bow, and pointed toward the creature's spot of re-entry, and shouted "Follow that Fin".
"Like Hell I will!" I yelled back, swinging the tiller around to start back away from a watery grave. Then disaster struck. We never knew what hit us.
We managed to swim through the whirl-pooling rubble to the exposed flats, and kissed the sand. We never saw the tin cup again. The next day, the Brewster Times confirmed the unusual sighting of a huge, light colored Sperm Whale in Cape Cod Bay.
I guess I am lucky to be alive. Today, Captain Adams chases whales in Florida, and calls them Tarpon.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
How NOT to Handle a fish to be released.
I am sure hoping that this Tennessee fish is heading for the frying pan or the taxidermist. For article featuring this gem, go to: http://www.tennesseesportsmanmag.com/fishing/stripers-hybrids-fishing/TN_0109_02/
Friday, January 23, 2009
Summer Striperheads Trip Dates Set !!
The reservations have been placed. We wait for the ice and snow to go and the bass to come back.... the first 2009 Spring/Summer outing for Striperheads is set for June 8 through the 14th. Area 4 of Nickerson's Campground in Brewster, Mass. Make your reservations at: http://www.reserveamerica.com .
Monday, January 19, 2009
New York State Record broken this past season
in case You hadn't heard.....
Gotta learn the river fishing, I guess.. this piece comes from the newspaper of Cornell University, one of my schools, with whom I had studied at the Isle of Shoals the past couple summers. Proud of the alumni, it seems. Proud of the fish, he seems.....
June 22, 2007
Recent Cornell grad catches record-breaking striped bass
Ian Kiraly with the New York state record-breaking striped bass caught May 9 in the Hudson River.
A striped bass caught by Ian Kiraly '07 in the Hudson River on May 9 was so big that by the time it was landed in the 16-foot boat, it had straightened one of the prongs of a treble hook on Kiraly's minnowlike lure. The 55-pound, 6-ounce fish set New York's state record for "stripers," measuring 49 and 3/8 inches long and 32 inches around.
"Once we got it in the boat, the lure fell right out of its mouth," said Kiraly, who majored in natural resources and is now a technician in the southwestern Adirondacks at the Little Moose Field Station, an aquatic research station run by the Department of Natural Resources in the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell.
Kiraly, who is from an area near Walton, N.Y., travels three to five times a year to the Hudson River to fish for spawning stripers. He was joined this trip by his father and a family friend and hooked the big fish near Kingston, N.Y. Kiraly said it took 30 to 45 minutes to get the striper in the boat.
While trolling with the lure about 20 feet deep, Kiraly said the fish bit and took a lot of line. He had no idea how big it was but began to wonder when he had trouble gaining back his line, he said.
"It charged the boat a couple of times and that was the only time I could gain some line at first," Kiraly said. "Then I'd lose the line again. We never even saw it until the last time I brought it to the surface." Once in the net, the three men heaved it on board together. They still had no idea it was the record fish.
Kiraly said they almost let it go, but since it was almost dead from the fight, they kept it. After weighing it, realizing it was a record fish and then showing it to a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation biologist to verify it was a striped bass, Kiraly froze the fish and is having a wall mount made. Coincidentally, the last record striped bass (which was only 6 ounces lighter) was also caught on May 9 -- four years ago.
Stripers, native to the Atlantic Ocean, spawn in the Hudson and Delaware Rivers each spring and can migrate up to Maine.
Gotta learn the river fishing, I guess.. this piece comes from the newspaper of Cornell University, one of my schools, with whom I had studied at the Isle of Shoals the past couple summers. Proud of the alumni, it seems. Proud of the fish, he seems.....June 22, 2007
Recent Cornell grad catches record-breaking striped bass
By Krishna Ramanujan
Ian Kiraly with the New York state record-breaking striped bass caught May 9 in the Hudson River.
A striped bass caught by Ian Kiraly '07 in the Hudson River on May 9 was so big that by the time it was landed in the 16-foot boat, it had straightened one of the prongs of a treble hook on Kiraly's minnowlike lure. The 55-pound, 6-ounce fish set New York's state record for "stripers," measuring 49 and 3/8 inches long and 32 inches around.
"Once we got it in the boat, the lure fell right out of its mouth," said Kiraly, who majored in natural resources and is now a technician in the southwestern Adirondacks at the Little Moose Field Station, an aquatic research station run by the Department of Natural Resources in the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell.
Kiraly, who is from an area near Walton, N.Y., travels three to five times a year to the Hudson River to fish for spawning stripers. He was joined this trip by his father and a family friend and hooked the big fish near Kingston, N.Y. Kiraly said it took 30 to 45 minutes to get the striper in the boat.
While trolling with the lure about 20 feet deep, Kiraly said the fish bit and took a lot of line. He had no idea how big it was but began to wonder when he had trouble gaining back his line, he said.
"It charged the boat a couple of times and that was the only time I could gain some line at first," Kiraly said. "Then I'd lose the line again. We never even saw it until the last time I brought it to the surface." Once in the net, the three men heaved it on board together. They still had no idea it was the record fish.
Kiraly said they almost let it go, but since it was almost dead from the fight, they kept it. After weighing it, realizing it was a record fish and then showing it to a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation biologist to verify it was a striped bass, Kiraly froze the fish and is having a wall mount made. Coincidentally, the last record striped bass (which was only 6 ounces lighter) was also caught on May 9 -- four years ago.
Stripers, native to the Atlantic Ocean, spawn in the Hudson and Delaware Rivers each spring and can migrate up to Maine.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Passing of a Giant
I know this doesn't have fins or scales, but I am saddened today by the news of the passing of Andrew Wyeth. Representing the second generation of the Wyeth dynasty of American art, his work helped to bring realism back into focus. Perhaps best known for his piece, Christina's World, I am particularly fond of a image of another one of his Maine models, Siri. His particular brand of realism, use of negative space, and lighting come together well in this painting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/arts/design/17wyeth.html?_r=1
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,962060-1,00.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003821093_wyeth04.html
http://www.andrewwyeth.com/index.html
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Welcome Wayne
hey there Wayne... welcome aboard.... you were on the blog invite mailing list, but that came from the striperheads email list from last year..... there were 30 invites out, about 1/4 were double subscriptions, but I suspect there are some old emails addresses.
anyway you got the word
word up!
S
anyway you got the word
word up!
S
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Bill and the Bird
Striperheads is not just about the fishing.... here we see our favorite ornithologist, Mr Coonswatter, studying the movements of a hawk over the flats at Paynes' Creek.
welcome first comers
hi Bob H good to hear from you..
Steve , its real good to hear from you... 2008 didn't give up much for me either... only got down once, in September, and the best was a couple 27 inchers... I too look for 2009, and hope to stay in touch with you this year. suggestion: try entering a "new Post" instead of a comment on someone else's post. Posts show up automatically, comments are "hidden"
Bill .... happy winter and I see that you are back to work..... tough it out, summer will be here soon enough.
Steve , its real good to hear from you... 2008 didn't give up much for me either... only got down once, in September, and the best was a couple 27 inchers... I too look for 2009, and hope to stay in touch with you this year. suggestion: try entering a "new Post" instead of a comment on someone else's post. Posts show up automatically, comments are "hidden"
Bill .... happy winter and I see that you are back to work..... tough it out, summer will be here soon enough.
Monday, January 12, 2009
lifes a beach
life's a beach, and then you die.....
Sam the striper here had better days. When Bill Barnard and I had made his acquaintance last fall, he was looking a little pale around the gills. he had been fooled by a deceiver, stripped of some nice fillets (he was proud of them shoulders -been working out at a gym for several months), and then tossed back into the drink.
He floated inland while he contemplated his new svelte self. But the tide left him stranded , his new flanks got burned in the sun, and then some black back had the audacity to peck out and eat his eyeballs, and worst yet, his cheeks.
He shudda stayed in school.
Sam the striper here had better days. When Bill Barnard and I had made his acquaintance last fall, he was looking a little pale around the gills. he had been fooled by a deceiver, stripped of some nice fillets (he was proud of them shoulders -been working out at a gym for several months), and then tossed back into the drink.
He floated inland while he contemplated his new svelte self. But the tide left him stranded , his new flanks got burned in the sun, and then some black back had the audacity to peck out and eat his eyeballs, and worst yet, his cheeks.
He shudda stayed in school.
Monday, January 5, 2009
A dozen years of Striperheads - From Damned Yankee Clave to Yurt Living
Did you realize that the Stiperheads clave is over 10 years old? beginnng life under the dubious of of the Damned Yankee Clave 2- the Salt Clave, in Maine, its been quite a journey... this image of ours truly is from Popham Beach in Maine in July 1998.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
The Work Goes On
Work on the website continues. Set up the articles page, with first articles, and set up this blog to be added to the website... just have to figure out how to extend invitation to subscription to the striperheads...
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Striperheads Blog .. created January 1, 2009
Welcome to the new Striperheads blog.... and a new look at the sport we love..
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