Delta Stripers 12-4

Thanks bennettdanville. 

Nice work.  Those are clean looking stripers

Great post Martin. I'm thrilled that you did. I had ignored the computer for a couple days. Smoken tomorrow, rain, hale or sleet. Gonna have to fax you your share, oops! don't have the technology.

dave and martin,

thanks..should have joined you but had to do the kiddie duties...

always a tough dilemma...whether to keep or wait for the upgrade..
hate to have to exit water early though since that place gives you such quick hookups.

martin thanks for the call back re: the dielectric gel for FF..

dave...saved some of that smoked fish for me too.

cheers,
dave

Nice work guys.  Save those heads for earbones if you can.

Jim

Jim whats the meaning of this? Ivory?

Nice work guys.  Save those heads for earbones if you can.

Jim

Jim whats the meaning of this? Ivory?

The otoliths provide important information as to where the fish have been and for how long.  It sounds like he can do some really cool things with them using lasers.

Michael

I hadn't saved the heads. How should they get delivered in the future. Is there something that could be removed during fish cleaning and mailed? For this to be implicated a game plan is needed.

I hadn't saved the heads. How should they get delivered in the future. Is there something that could be removed during fish cleaning and mailed? For this to be implicated a game plan is needed.

Look for InSeine Jim's posts on this recent thread: 
http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php/topic,21494.0.html

Stripers are thought to migrate up river every year to spawn.  Dave Secor on the east coast has shown that they will skip spawning and stay in the ocean for several years on east coast.  This is the first evidence that they do it on the west coast and could be important for understanding the recent collapse of young of year striper.  Dave has a great website with a link to his manual for otolith work.  There is a section on how to cut them out of big fish, I think in fact it is striped bass.  It is kind of a pain in the ass.  Those stripers have hard heads.  I'll take heads but if you can yank em that would be great.  They are fragile and often break.  Depending on where they break they might still be usable so try to save all the pieces.

http://www.cbl.umces.edu/~secor/age-growth.html