Picky blues? yeah i know...

[Chrisper4694]

I know your first thought is going to be coincidence it's all in our heads but here was our day...

just like everyone else, we headed out into the dense fog wondering what the hell we were thinking. We decided to stay close and set up shop on a decent spot. We knew there would be bluefish but in hopes of maybe a striper we toss out our bait on clear leaders (with plans to switch to steel leaders if we had blues infestation)

within 5-10 minutes boom, bluefish on and got it to the boat luckily with no cut leader. instantly again, bluefish on, leader cut after a little fight. Boom another one popped off at boat side. Then one more cut leader... ok we had seen enough, we were fishing for blues today so we switch all the clear leaders to metal. Not one hit, take or pop...what happened? guess the bite died? we waited and waited...1.5 hours not one touch.

So my friend thinks maybe there is a striper around, takes a clear leader with clam and throws it out. Instantaneously slammed by a bluefish, that luckily gets to the boat with no cut leader...We look at each other and think...wow the bluefish are leader shy, wtf???

so we pull out the thickest clear leader we have on board and switch everything over, sure enough, anarchy ensues with blues on every which way, many obviously lost to broken leaders and others to popped hooks, but wow has anyone else ever experienced leader shy picky bluefish???

Anyway we boated 11 nice sized blues up to about 35" and only 5 skates (one of them freakishly large) and kept a few blues for some tasty cakes!