on foot marin side middleground stripes 04/07/09

I've been on a quest for my first TW striper for some time. Woke up to windless greasy skies on the 510 side, I couldn't stand it, called in to work for some welltime, threw baitcaster gear in the truck, dashed over to the 415 side to find pouring rain gusts. 2 hours of shoreline walking and SuperSpook-dog-walking resulted in 2 hits, the first porpoising out of the water like a GW on a seal (missed hookup, forgot to set drag, DOH!), the second on a massive boil  at close range (drag  wwayy tight, fish goes berserk at surface, knots hold thankyou fishgods).

Releasing a fish tangled up in 3 sets of trebles is exciting.

My left wrist got sortof tired from the dog-walking, clearly more welltime is needed.

mikechin

Sounds like your hands were full - time for a helmet-cam!   

Any size? 

nothing better than topwater Stripers!

was ugly over here a lot of the day...

figure i'll post this one...you can figure out the location (plenty of background there). Chartreuse swimbait, near bottom of tide

Thanks for the report mikechin.

Congrats on the striper Steve. The fish looks fat and healthy.

Jedmo

Congrats Mike. Steve killer striper brother!

WTMakeTheCall Mike!...that must have been SWEET!,turned SOUR,back to SWEET!!   You do need a camera IMHO.
Thanks for the report!

Congrats Mike. Steve killer striper brother!

crap...wasn't trying to thread jump or to get kudos, but to give out the location to those that recognize it....

(let the flame begin)

Any size? 

#2 rod-measured about 26", #1 looked smaller. There was a fair amount of torn-up eel grass and algae-like stuff fouling the Spook frequently, but the water clarity was pretty good. Didn't see any bait or bird activity.