10/15/11 Willow-Mohave

[wolfs4evr]

We ended up keeping 14 of them. I have a 30 gallon rear and 20 gallon forward livewell and both were packed. I added ice from our cooler to keep the temps down till I had time to get them cleaned up since there was more fish than water in those livewells. They were hitting the cranks we were tossing so hard and just totally choking on them that I just couldn't get the hooks out and release them w/o the thought they were going to die. Since many times the trebles were down in the gills. More fish than I wanted to have to bring home by a long shot and certainly WAY more than I remotely wanted to have to fillet but got it done and they are in the freezer. I nearly filled a 5 gallon bucket with fillets by the time I finished.

I cooked up the smallest one we had for my daughter and myself at 9PM Saturday night once everything was cleaned up and put away. First time I have eaten Striper and I will have to say the best fish meal I have ever eaten. I am pretty happy to have a nice stockpile of Striper sitting in my freezer right now []
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