Delaware River Striped Bass

[Fishidiot]

Here's the latest from Mike and the Area 6 PFBC crew on striped bass in the Delaware estuary. Short version is that sampled striped bass populations were roughly average in 2011:

http://www.fish.state.pa.us/images/reports/2011bio/6x06_30delaware.pdf

 

[RowJimmy]

49% of the tagged fish were harvested. Yikes!

 

[Fredrick]

Funny that site is five minutes from my house thank god I got the SS Tweed now :-D

 

[Mike]

http://www.fish.state.pa.us/images/reports/2011bio/6x06_30delaware.pdf

Addendum: While the report mentions some angler's average catch rates (individuals in one particular group averaged 4 per hour each), I am aware of one trip by a group of three anglers during which 80 stripers between 18 and 33 inches were caught in four hours. One of those anglers caught 40 of those fish.

 

[afishinado]

Great to see some GOOD news about fishing / fish populations once in a while. Thanks.

 

[Fredrick]

Now that I have the yak I can give this a try especially when its so close to home :-D

 

[Fishidiot]

Mike's thread was merged into this one.
Dave W

 

[Fredrick]

Thxs for the intell Mike always good to catch stripers five minutes from your house on popers