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A Big Year for Really Big Striped Bass

Pictured above left to right Keith, Bob and Brett Brummer with big stripers

Long Branch Iceboat and Yacht Club fishermen and even the party boat Captains along the Jersey Shore all agree this is one of the best years for striped bass fishing in decades. Early in the season Keith Meyers weighted in a 22 lb. fish for the club contest, and released another dozen big bass. His fish became a guppy when Tom Olski landed a 29 plus pounder.

But Oliski was soon out in the cold as former Commodore Thomas Bray weighed in a 39.17 lb. bass. Bray was then edged out of the club competition when Jim Pappos added a 39.55 pounder to the list.

Then on June 18th all the other big fish were dwarfed when club members Keith Brummer caught at 50 lb. bass and Bob Brummer landed a 55.65 lb. Brother Brett also landed big fish.

“I have never seen anything like it, ” Keith Brummer said, “ there were big bass torpedoing out the water as far as you could see.” Keith said they released at least 30 fish that day, and the keepers were filleted and turned over for a club fish dinner party.

So it looks like the Brummer brothers may have the contest sewn up for this year, or do they. Reports this week say despite the heat the bass are still biting, and as Yogi Berra said, “it ain’t over until it is over.”

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Endangered-

Species Status Sought

for Bluefin Tuna --

Thanks to Gulf Oil Spill

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