Fifties Count -- 2009

Frank Daignault · #1 04-08-2009, 11:25 AM

As with previous years, let's put up the names and weights of the 50s taken from Cape May north, boat or surf, so we can count them for the year. Please include some identifiable markers so that we don't list the same ones twice.

Example: F.Daignault, February 30, 49-15, Guzzles B&T

Reelangler · #2 04-09-2009, 10:53 AM

How about another count for those of us south of the Mason-Dixon line? If I catch a 50 this year, I want the whole world to know about it!

Rob

Frank Daignault · #3 04-10-2009, 03:13 PM

Rob, you can report it here. We just won't count it in the northern count. Still, you might win a trip to Somalia hotel, three hours in a one star hotel to fish for Nile perch.

Reelangler · #4 04-11-2009, 10:43 AM

Okay, that's fine. I get a little excited here right before fishing season. I think if I lived close to the shore, I wouldn't be able to keep a job!

Rob

Frank Daignault · #5 04-20-2009, 07:42 PM

Okay. In my day real surfcasters didn't have jobs. Some of them today have pet bridge abuttments. Blazing saddles: Where the fifties at?

Windcheater · #6 05-03-2009, 10:28 PM

Frank, this may be the first of the season, a guy caught a 52lber on Friday just south of the Tappan Zee bridge in the Hudson.

Hopefully she wasn't still full of eggs.

Frank Daignault · #7 05-04-2009, 03:07 PM

Thanks, Windcheater. First one for 2009. A little later than usual.

VA Gentleman · #8 05-04-2009, 09:10 PM

Frank, Al, (et al).........

I know this doesn't really count, as it was count south of the Mason/Dixon Line.
(Speaking of which, this report & photo compliments of MD's Department of Natural Resources.):

"Scott Bruther checked in this whopping 55-1/2?, 55lb striped bass at JJ?s Tackle Shop that he caught near Buoy 77. "

However, given that youz guys have (both) caught a school of once-in-a-lifetime fish (50+), what is your perception of a 55 pounder measuring 55 inches? Isn't that normally reserved for 60+?

Although, to be honest, it does sort of look like some of the "spring blues" we used to catch "back in the day", at Cape Hatteras; blues with the heads of an eighteen, and the body of an eight....

Frank Daignault · #9 05-05-2009, 01:07 PM

i'm not there and didn't weigh it but it doesn't look like a fifty. The reason why I don't want to count the southern fish is that it would create a mix of data. We can't have a 40 year count going and change how we count. I have no problem with the south, especially the women.

SALMONMEISTER · #10 05-05-2009, 03:26 PM

Frank, on XXXXXXXXXXXX this morning I read of a 50.2lb, 50 inch from the Kingston, NY area on the Hudson River. I've been gettin' some 50s upriver near Albany...50 ounces!

SALMONMEISTER · #11 05-05-2009, 03:27 PM

Sorry, I didn't realize I couldn't name the website

Frank Daignault · #12 05-22-2009, 03:40 PM

I thought we were running behind other years but Memorial weekend is when the first flood of fifties should come in ....so hang on.

junkmansj · #13 05-23-2009, 06:15 PM

Lifted from Grumpys B&T in Seaside Park

Congrats - Adam Lezott 50.7 lb Bass!
Reported on May 22, 2009
Best Bass of the year (so far) goes to Adam Lezott who toughed out the strong south wind yesterday afternoon and came up with a 52" 50.7 lbs Bass fishing IBSP with a swimmer! WOW

Frank Daignault · #14 05-24-2009, 03:39 PM

Thanks, Junk. It is what we pay you for.

RobS · #15 05-24-2009, 08:56 PM

From riptidebaitandtackle.com, Brigantine, NJ:"Frank H had a 50 incher 52 pound catch and release."

Don't know if C and R counts but the owner of the shop seems fairly reliable from all accounts.