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Hooked on a feeling: Why striped bass are so fun to fish [Video]

This story is from this week’s episode of the new CBC podcast Good Question, P.E.I. 

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Good Question, P.E.I. is available on the CBC Listen app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Here’s what this week’s CBC P.E.I. podcast question is NOT: Why would anyone sit for hours on the water’s edge at a beach on a cool April evening?

That answer is too easy for Wayne Murphy of Kensington, and anyone else who fishes striped bass on P.E.I.

“It’s pretty relaxing, quiet even. And you can watch the sunset and then you see the stars and sometimes you’ll see a satellite go by or something,” he said. 

“And then if you get a bite, of course, it goes from being pretty relaxed to, you know, pretty intense all at once.”

What Murphy asked for this week’s episode of Good Question, P.E.I., is more about the striped bass itself. Or, as he puts it: “What’s the deal with striped …

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