Striped bass caught on the backside of Catalina

striper likes to hit moving target, all my striper is caught during trolling.

Cool, but why does the story always go like this...?

Ya, we were fishing at ____ and caught a really nice ____ which is extremely rare for this location....so we killed it.

It's not every day that a SoCal fisherman gets to take home a fresh ocean-caught striper. Nice change of pace for the dinner table. Just like when a Nor Cal guy gets a wsb. I think I'd have a harder time releasing a wsb if I lived in Nor Cal and caught one up there than I would down where you see them regularly. For a striper, it's not even native to the West Coast. If I got lucky and bagged a legal-sized one down here, I don't think I'd hesitate for even one second to harvest it. If it's that far from Nor Cal, chances are it won't ever make it back up there to spawn - or at least it is a lot less likely to spawn compared to the stripers hanging out near the Golden Gate.