Hunting & Fishing: RECORD SHATTERED

Fred Barnes 63, a Chesapeake telephone contractor shattered the Virginia state striped bass saltwater record with a 73-pound giant caught near the 4A Buoy off Cape Henry.

The previous Virginia record was a 68-pound, 1-ounce fish caught in 2006 by Clay Armstrong. The fish missed the International Game Fish Association all-tackle world record by 5-1/2 pounds, which was 78-8 striper caught off a New Jersey beach in 1982 by Albert McReynolds .

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http://hamptonroads.com/2008/01/chesapeake-man-shatters-virginia-striped-bass-record-73pound-catch

COPEPOD aka Gil Maggot; Are they still out there?
Have you seen any parasites in the mouths of striped bass? If they are attached to the tongue, gills, and/or the roof of the mouth and look sort of like maggots you copuld be seeing a parasitic copepod in the genus Achtheres.

If you have, there is no immediate cause for alarm, because they are also not harmful to humans since they are destroyed by cooking and they are not found in the flesh of fish. During severe infestations, it appears as if the fishes\’ mouths are full of maggots; hence the common term, \”gill maggots\”.

They were recently found in SC in Santee and in Lake Murray in January 2008.
 

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