Couple of Visitors from NJ

[Captain Rich]

Both the clients and the fish !!!

[Ol Pedro]

Capt., I'm confused are those Bluefish?

[Captain Rich]

Yep !! They are kind of a novelty down here, especially the big ones. See how light colored they are ? That's from swimming over white sand, they blend in. Also down here they are eating different forage fish, no bunker here, so the meat is lighter in color. They tell me the smaller ones are good to eat because of that. I haven't found any small ones. How you doing ??

[Shaaaarky]

Was pier fishing yesterday and it was a massacre. Of the 30 blues (all 10-17#) I saw hooked, I might have seen 5 landed. The rest were inhaled by big bull sharks that were fighting over them. Just crazy fishing overall!

[Ol Pedro]

How you doing ??[/QUOTE]

Good, I'm preping for Crappie, possible dockwork, and selling at the fishing flea market. Going shooting this week. Nothing like sending a few rounds down range. Hope Grandson doesn't beat me again. I have some rod repairs for the boat coming up. Retirement is great!
Funny how they say the same things that we say about Bluefish even with the different forage. You should be an expert at catching them as they were our bread and butter up here. I miss those bloodydecks and filleting for hours.They do fight hard just not what I have gone to Florida to fish for but you take what's there.
Are you going to target them and get in on a new fishery? Get your nitch going before the others catch on? The new reef donkeys!! Is there a limit on those toothy devils? You could buy a larger boat and do open party day and night like we do up here.

[cletus109]

haven't seen a chopper in quite awhile.......fun fishing but beware of teeth

[Captain Rich]

3 per person, 12 " minimum. No I'm going to stick with the normal Fl stuff, they just show up occasionally in the winter down here.

[John D.]

After Sandy, the large schools AND large blues have all but vanished from the NJ coast. Any head boats fishing for them will be during the day usually a few miles off the beach over the reefs and a huge one is 5-7#. I’m sure the stocks are solid, they are like cockroaches, but they just don’t stack up off our coast anymore especially the large ones.

[FishingSinceIWasThree]

Originally Posted by Captain Rich

Both the clients and the fish !!!

Wow...I miss those blues here in NJ! Doesn't help the global warming scam...they should be moving north if global warming was true

[Broad Bill]

Originally Posted by FishingSinceIWasThree

Wow...I miss those blues here in NJ! Doesn't help the global warming scam...they should be moving north if global warming was true

Bingo. A friend of mine is down in Fla. and told me about the big blues showing up this year in pretty significant numbers. Doesn't happen every year but it does happen and has been happening for some time. I also remember when I was a young kid maybe 50 years ago same size blues showing up in Maine chasing schools of bunker, the locals didn't know what they were and never saw them before. I don't think that was a product of climate change back in the 70's. There's no doubt climate is an issue in this world, but to blame everything on it I think is the easy way out to support a narrative the current administration is driving for a different set of reasons.