Lots of bonito here too..but lately there has been alot of soupfin sharks around....have to get me one soon....yeehaw.....I don't normally keep shark setups in the car.. I keep a 15 setup and an 8 lb...
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Get Baked and Go Fishing
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Lols! I use 120-150 braid on a tld50 w a 35h custom with a 10- 12' 300# mono leader that I can whip whole Bonita/ stingray carcass on w a 15/0 jobu. I don't miss shark or jewfish
I like to give em a chance....no coral where I fish tho...just seaweed...yeehaw
I fish a lot of structure tho. Either piers or some boats that I have sank over time. I currently have 3 out of 4 artificial reefs that I have made over time. I NEVER throw trash or anything that won't erode over time (mostly traps and wood hull boats). Tho not sure if any of them are still there after storm
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Nice.I would have had to throw some top waters too.BIG blues blowin up some top water plugs is da beez kneez.
very nice bluefish. do you smoke the larger ones like that?
I make a couple batches of smoked bluefish every summer but this particular fish got filleted and eaten fresh. I need about 6 fish this size to fill my smoker.
If you bleed them out and ice them down immediately after catching them they make fine fare, fresh. I skin the fillets and cut the dark blood line out before cooking too.
If you bleed them out and ice them down immediately after catching them they make fine fare, fresh. I skin the fillets and cut the dark blood line out before cooking too.
You're more of a man than me!
I like catching bluefish off the beach, they put up a hell of a good fight,
but I don't eat them...
Even prepared right, they're way to strong tasting for me!
Gimme some black sea bass anyday!
Yeah bluefish= bait
BUT, the Asians love them and pay top dollar so I keep them for when I get back to the docks
No way. They's good eatin'. lol.
You just have to prep them right. Bleed 'em while they are still flopping , ice them down , fillet and skin then remove the dark bloodline.
The little tinker blues are some tasty cooked whole over an open fire with olive oil salt and pepper and lemon. Like sardines.
I caught finer fish tonight though.
Reeled in four striped bass tonight. Largest was 25 inches and the others were little guys around 14 inches or so.
Legal size is 28 inches minimum so they were all released.
You just have to prep them right. Bleed 'em while they are still flopping , ice them down , fillet and skin then remove the dark bloodline.
The little tinker blues are some tasty cooked whole over an open fire with olive oil salt and pepper and lemon. Like sardines.
I caught finer fish tonight though.
Reeled in four striped bass tonight. Largest was 25 inches and the others were little guys around 14 inches or so.
Legal size is 28 inches minimum so they were all released.
JustSumTomatoes
Indicas make dreams happen
We get stripers following the walleye runs in one of our rivers. Haven't had the chance to catch any yet. Hear they give a nice fight.
best bluefishing I ever did was on a single day under the Newport Bridge, Narragansett Bay R.I. around '81 or '82; the blues were running and they were biting voraciously, as soon as your plug, lure, bait hit the water it was set upon, hell there were so many fish that the topwater was alive with their action.
the smaller ones were cleaned filleted & smoked, the bigger ones were cleaned and cut into nice thick steaks, my favorite cut. The 5 or 6 of us fishing together were local bikers we knew and rode with regularly.
You're more of a man than me!
I like catching bluefish off the beach, they put up a hell of a good fight,
but I don't eat them...
Even prepared right, they're way to strong tasting for me!
Gimme some black sea bass anyday!
If you have not had it smoked you should give it another try.Smoked is the only way i like them myself.
Other than that i agree with badfishy1.It's amazing how 24 inch gags will devour a live 15 inch bluefish.
This guy was co-owner with two buddies of mine, of a fishing machine of a boat...
We used to fish the south end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel at night.
This was a nice striper, but not untypical of what we would catch most nights we went out..
Of course, we always had some joints with us out there....
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We used to fish the south end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel at night.
This was a nice striper, but not untypical of what we would catch most nights we went out..
Of course, we always had some joints with us out there....
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luposolitario
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here is start the season , "red tuna" popping and trolling eheheh, and smoking on the wind by sea, happen see couple whit the wife bob out ...
going to Maryland in a few weeks visiting friends. i hope to get into some stripers and/or good blues while there. used to go to Hatteras every year, surf fishing during bluefish blitzes is a hell of a time! gulls and terns diving all around you, waves breaking over your ass while fighting 15 lb and up blues, oh man...then, after the blitz, drag your ass back to the jeep & fire up a doobie & crack open a mason jar or cold beer. i don't know if life can get any better...
