Any angler who has been fishing the salt for a length of time has heard stories about a striped bass will eat. Doesn’t matter if you part take of saltwater flyfishing, spin fish, surf cast, bait fish or fish from a boat. Stories abound about the thing people have found in a bass’s stomach.

With this article I will add my 2-cents to the legend.

The following pictures come from a striped bass I took in the late night hours (approx 2:30am) on May 26^th, 2001. Sorry, can’t say the exact spot (let an angler have some mysteries) but will say it was in the Robert Moses/Fire Island Inlet area of Long Island’s South Shore (New York).

Here’s a picture of the fish in it’s whole:

She was 38 inches long and weighted 24 pounds.

When I filleted the bass here’s what was found in the stomach:

Those are fluke (summer flounder). Sizes ranged from 6 to 10 inches.

and an eel too!

This is probably a conger eel. It was approximately 8 inches long.

Note: After further discussion with other surf casters, it is also possible the above fish was a kingfish. They were very numerous in the bays during the season this bass was caught.

And despite a full belly this fish still took my offering!

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