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Bass Fishing Season Back In Ocean City: Man Catches 42-Incher
The Ocean City Fishing Club member's catch weighed 26 pounds.
OCEAN CITY, N.J. — Striped bass are biting in Ocean City. Ocean City Fishing Club member Bob Dever caught his first keeper striped bass of the year Saturday.
The fish weighed 26 pounds and measured 42 inches. Dever hooked the fish about an hour before high tide Saturday afternoon. He used chunk bunker for baith.
The bass took about 10 minutes to land. He caught it 15 minutes after he started fishing, with the wind blowing northeast.
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"The conditions were awesome," Dever said.
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