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Bass Week 2025: In-Fisherman Classics–Striped Bass are America's Most Aggressive Gamefish

Large and aggressive striped bass are considered by many anglers as the pinnacle of all gamefish species.

Join Doug Stange and friends as they target large and aggressive striped bass, considered by most anglers as the pinnacle of all game fish species. Enjoy this throwback video about targeting and catching big striped bass wherever they swim.

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00:00:11.970 --> 00:00:26.970: Striped bass can be one of North America's most aggressive sport fish. At times they plow into schools of bait fish in open water, causing a turmoil of bait driven to the surface where birds dive on the bait as stripers feet below.

00:00:26.970 --> 00:00:43.530: For anglers, it can be fast action cast after cast during the dent of winter. However, especially once the prime low light warning period passes, several totally different approaches often are necessary to scratch even enough fish for dinner.

00:00:43.530 --> 00:01:02.040: Take Soma Striker. Boy, that, that one, they're dead sticking and boy there. Alright, there we go. Steve. Yeah, that's a last one. Nice. Nice. Texoma striper, huh?

00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:17.190: Yep. Lake T with Captain Steve Barnes. Boy that what a prolific fishery This is, you know, lots and lots of stripers like this. They're not, you know, this is a, a kind of a, a nice eater size or whatever, but you know, it's a great fishery in terms of numbers of fish and we'll get into some reasons why, but man, there's some bigger ones too. There's a potential for 15-, 20-plus-pounders…

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