Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:36:33 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:31:33 -0500, BAR wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:25:22 -0800 (PST), wrote:


I've fished for a lot of different species in a lot of different
waters, and striper fishing rates right up there with some of the
best.
Which ones? Lots of different "stripers."
There's a "striper" here in the lakes of Illinois that some call white
bass. Caught a lot of them, but they don't bet much bigger than a
nice crappie.
Then I've heard of hybrids in the impoundments out west that are
supposed to be good fighters, and get pretty big.
Ocean stripers too. I'm confused now.
http://www.alltackle.com/striped_bass_catch.htm
Hoo-eeee! Now that looks like fun.
And tells me they call them rockfish too.

Morons who fish the Chesapeake call them rockfish and the lefties on
the West coast do the same. :)

Are they good eating?

Very good - similar to other white fish flesh taken from the ocean
like flounder, haddock, pollock, etc.

They've been called rockfish for as long as I can remember. I spent much
of my youth at my uncle's on the Maryland side of the lower Potomac.
We'd go rockfish'n all of the time. Jigging/drifting in the fall and
trolling in the spring.