77.4-pound striped bass that set the new
Rhode Island state record and fell just about a pound short of being the new all-tackle world record and today we'll bring you some more photos of this amazing fish.
Peter Vican is no stranger to big fish, he had in fact held the record before, with a 76-pound, 14-ounce fish caught in 2009.
Vican, who plans to get a skin mount of this fish, reports that it was caught on a live
eel, around 3:30 a.m. fishing off Block Island with friend Don Smith.
Smith also gave the guys at
Boating Local a description of the evening. He said they began fishing on the south side of the block at 9:30 p.m., and had some success, catching
bass to 48 pounds, and a number of 40-plus-pound fish. After getting covered up in
dogfish, they moved but came back.
At 3:30, peter hooked this monster
striper. He says it didn't fight incredibly well or make any long runs, and they weren't sure of its size until they got it alongside the
boat.
Smith says he was so excited from the sight of the fish that he was able to haul the
net over the side of the
boat himself. When they dropped the fish next to the 48-pound
bass, which they'd kept, he says the larger one looked as though it could swallow the smaller one.
"It looked like a brick with a tail," Smith says.
Congratulations on a lifetime achievement Peter.
Capt.Paul Peluso reporting
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Images and the Story Behind Peter Vican's Record-breaking Rhode Island Striped Bass
