|
Long Bay Pointe Bait and
Tackle weighs in another new
Virginia State Record!
LONG
BAY POINTE MARINA, VIRGINIA BEACH -
Long Bay
Pointe Bait and Tackle weighed in the new Virginia State record Striped
Bass earlier this year. This time it's a 19 -pound, 3-ounce Sheepshead
caught on July 25th by Jeff Hutton of Virginia Beach. It has been
certified as the new Virginia state record by the Virginia Saltwater
Fishing Tournament.
Hutton caught his fish while anchored over the rocks at the tunnel end
of the Second Island of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. The Sheepshead,
which measured 28 inches in length and had a girth of 24 inches, was
fooled by a piece of "hard" crab.
Hutton and his fishing partner Richard Koch were unable to get any
fiddler crabs, their favorite bait for Sheepshead, so they settled for
hard crabs and decided to fish for whatever was available at the Second
Island. Hutton's Sheepshead was the second fish, and only Sheepshead,
they caught.
The prior state record of 19 pounds was caught south of the First Island
of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel by James M. Boyd of Virginia Beach.
Boyd caught his fish on October 8, 1979.
|
