Glory Days Let's Hear Em

[hudsonfisherman]

Manasquan inlet, I was just a kid around 1963-1965.We would fish off the rocks on the inlet side just past the end of the seawall by carlsons corner using small long long shank hooks with a tiny bit of fresh surf clam that we purchased from Carlsons and catching endless buckets of blowfish. Over the course of one summer we learned to clean them with one cut and turning them kinda inside out avoiding breaking the stomach or the acids would eat your fingernails away after cleaning a few hundred. Bergalls and blackfish were by-catch and we threw them all back ! we used to call the bergalls "sleepy fish" because rumor was if you ate to many of them it would make you sleepy.