Good deal! The blues are still so thick down here, you can't get anything down below them. They're even biting short stripers in half . Gonna hit the jetty in barnegat light with a buddy on friday mornin. He was catchin a blue on every cast on sunday. My dad loves blues so i figger instead of wasting fuel in the boat we'll just see what we can catch off the rocks for a few hrs.
A lot of people refer to them as yellow eyed demons, because they have sharp teeth that tear up leaders and lures.. And they don't like to eat them.. Pound for pound I'll put a bluefish fight over any other fish, they slam a top water plug like animals! And their is nothing like seeing a live bunker getting ripped apart by a 15lb blue!
This post made me miss my striper fishing days from a railroad trestle in the marshes of southern maine. Brought in a 52" female one night and let her go with the help a of few other guys on the bridge once - if you've never reeled in a boat anchor for 45mins in 15' of outgoing tide you haven't lived. Back then the slot limits were 36"+ but later changed to 22-26", no way I'd ever take a big old girl from the waters but I may have a 35" on polaroid
Good job on the release, unfortunately a lot of guys that fish around here , want to keep those big ones just to get the picture at the bait shop on a scale. We caught a 52" bass that had to be pushing 50#s , no camera or scale and released it unharmed.. It's just the right thing to do.
That one weighed well over 50lbs - my gauged arm at the time was accustomed to throwing 50lb bags of potatoes. A guy that had been fishing next to me quit for the evening and gave me his left over sand eels I hooked one on and the bait was in the water 30secs when I hooked that biggun. Same night another guy caught a 56" which was also released. The slot limit fish that I used to keep would have crabs staked up like silver dollars in their stomachs 12-15 in every one of them, crabs are just bad as line bait because they crawl into holes and get you tangled if you do hookup
