Big Blues at the Ocean Today!!!

We kept two of the blues we caught. The first to smoke, the other because it swallowed the plug to its gills. It will be smoked also

I got out of work by 2 pm today and was not on call afterwards. I called Jeff and asked him if he wanted to go fishing. Low tide was at 4:30. That limited our options. There aren't too many " low tide spots". We opted to fish an outflow into the ocean. The water was rushing out of a salt pond as the tide dropped. Within minutes we each landed a schoolie striper. Honestly we have done so bad fishing saltwater this year, hooking a schoolie within minutes made the trip worth it.

Within a couple more minutes Jeff and I hooked up at the same time. This time we were not into schoolies. We were onto HUGE bluefish. The first two we landed were probably the biggest. They were 12-14 pounds. They were gorillas. We landed a few more the smallest was probably 8 or 9 pounds. All the others were over 10 pounds. It was not a blitz, but there were definitely a few feeding in the surf.  Jeff caught another schoolie, but the big news of the night were the big bluefish.

I will try to get a couple pictures up as soon as I can.