We have stripers here at Lake of the Ozarks but nothing this big...
My nephew fishes the lower Chesapeake where he routinely catches stripers in the 50 - 60 lb class. What a thrill.
Just got back from a wonderful week at a resort on road EE where we used to go when our kids were little. Our son caught a 26 inch cat fish and his cousin a 27 inch buffalo head. We saw a huge paddlefish that had been hit by a motor boat and was dying. Sad.
>>>We have stripers here at Lake of the Ozarks but nothing this big...<<<
The freshwater stripers are getting bigger. For many years the record stood at 55 pounds, caught in South Carolina near the area where they were originally land-locked during spawning back in the 1940’s. Now the world record is 67 1/2 pounds caught in San Luis, California.
http://www.striperspace.com/freshwater_stripers.html
My biggest freshwater striper was 34 pounds. But I hooked one that was at least 45 pounds that broke off near the bank. The record in that SC/GA lake (Lake Thurmond) is currently 55 pounds.