Re: Singing The Blues
Congratulations on the tag returns. It's always fun to get one of Jeff's Goldfish Patches in the mail and to find out where the fish you tag have been recaptured. The information is shared and used by other agencies and helps in understanding migration patterns almost exclusively.
Not too many people are tagging bluefish probably because their teeth can be so threatening when you get your fingers close by. I know from your reports that you tag a lot of mature blues in the spring as they migrate north. Unfortunately, the tag returns only show where the fish were and not how many there are. If there were more of them, I'm sure many of us would tag them but they seem to vanish as the summer approaches and only a fraction of them hug the beaches on their way south in the fall.
There were some monster blues in the Sandy Hook surf in the late spring albeit at night on most occasions. Tagging a 10# bluefish at night is not something I try or like to do. Still, they seem to have left, despite the abundance of bunkers almost everywhere. However, the number of snappers has been very healthy for the last several years as well as the appearance of more and more taylor blues. As for the gators, I guess they have decided to vacation in New England waters.
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