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SML Striper Fishing
A Rockfish is called a Rock, Striper. members of the Moronidae (temperate basses)
or Striped Bass depending on where you live family, which is found primarily along the
or fish. On the Atlantic coast it is called a Atlantic coast of North America, from Florida
Rock or Rockfish. In the inland waters, such and the Gulf to Canada, especially in some
as Smith Mountain Lake and others, it is main inlets such as the Chesapeake Bay in
identified as a Striped Bass, or a Striper. Virginia and Maryland.
The Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis), On average, adult Striped Bass
also called Atlantic Striped Bass, Striper, typically grow to be 2 or 3 feet in length,
Linesider, Pimpfish, Rock, or Rockfish, is weighing between 10 and 30 pounds, although
an anadromous Perciforme fish. This type is they can get much larger. Their elongated
defined as a perch-like fish that is born in bodies vary in color from light or olive green
fresh water and then spends most of its life to blue, brown, or black, and their metallic
in the sea. It returns to fresh water to spawn. sides are striped with seven or eight dark,
Salmon, Smelt. Striped Bass, and Sturgeon continuous lines. Their bellies are white. They
are common examples. A catadromous fish have a dark, forked tail fin, with three spines
does just the opposite: it lives in fresh water, on their anal fins. Their dorsal fins feature
and enters the sea to spawn. Striped Bass are a deep notch, and the forward portion has
Almanac
Fisherman’s
by Bob King
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