happen to me twice.
once off the airport a couple years ago.
and the other day off deer island.

both times the bass were about 25" size class.
and they were bitten clean in half:behead: one solid motion spine and all.

Miker I would think not, but who the heck knows I have seen stranger things.

seals?

brown sharks...they like shallow water an have the mouth of a minni mako...all needle teeth. great fish to catch..puts up alot of fight for being 3-4 ' long. but don't get ya pinkies near it.

both times were not noticed at all. till i went to lip 'em, and pick up 1/2 a fish.
wasn't like,, ohhhhh somethin just grabed him and is running away.
just clean, hacked in half,like a sword blade without even feeling a thing.

Same thing happened to me a few years back. I saw the Bluefish while I did a little tug of war until he chopped right thru the striper. It was a BIG bluefish. The striper was only a 15-16 incher.

I've had the tails taken off by bluefish, never in 1/2 but close.:smash: what do you do with the rest of the body. there under size. last time I feed the crabs.:smash:

seen it a few times //@##$$%^^^&^%$$ BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOSSSSSS:smash:

I have had the same thing happen to me. A Bluefish took half a bass, it cut it clean and left a hakf circle bit mark. Then of course it was nowhere near keeper size, so I threw it back and they finished the bass off. This all happen while I was in water up to ny chest.

happened to a friend friday, except it was a 25# yellowfin bitten in half about 120 miles offshore, and it wasn't a bluefish. although it was blue. right behind the boat. sweet.

Ur gonna need a bigger boat.

A big , big blue could bite a small striper in half but I'd bet its a shark doing it.

600 + pound seal, bit dern near in half over the weekend near trail 2 @ Nauset :happy: da-da.....da-da (insert Jaws theme here) Bring a bigger boat :D

just like the movie, they keeping it quiet, nothing in the paper.....

they got it offa the sand PRONTO bring a bigger wrecker :laughs:

i was with mike at the airport its true!! :rotf3: funny thing is he tossed the head half on to the pier for the stray cat :rotf3: TOP CAT was very happy dragging his half home :rotf3:

I'll believe it, I've seen blues bight tautog in half, and those things are a lot tougher than any striper.

I would say no, never seen that :)

Now my $1.25 each eels are yet another story ><> ><> ><>

VB

about 5 years ago down in Long Island In October I was on the beach with a buddy. We had 15-20 lb slammers in the surf for several hours. On this morning we watched those same 15-20 lb blues chase schoolies and 3-5 lb weakfish right out of the water onto the beach. Several times we saw bass and weaks missing the last several inches of the tail ends. Most of the morning we went around picking up the bass and weaks and throwing them back in the water because they jumped so far up the beach onto the sand. These blues were so big and aggressive we were throwing big 12" pencil poppers and almost every one we caught had swallowed the pencil so far down only 1" was sticking out of its mouth. It was nature at its best. Eat or be eaten.

With a blue u wil feel the tell tale chop chop chop as they bite an tear.A shrk will go thru a bass in one felled swoop.More like u described.They will co-exist in the same area without any foulplay but when a fish gets exited the shark will attack.I've had monster blues 15#+ eat tailor sized blues but never a bass. I've have seen them eat just about every other hook an lined fish.We usta liveline herring at the backside of madaket for bass an hook sharks they are a great fight.Scary when ur standing in the water up to ur waste an u see the fin chasin ur buky back towards u.Too bad they don't aquire more of a taste for cormarants.

once happend last year.... biggest blue i ever seen in my life just chomped a 20in striper in hafe

i wish i still had it....(burned up in the house fire) but one pitch black night ..i was out fishing in my boat and had cast out a home made plug....
and suddeny i got the hit and hookset of a lifetime and nearly broke the rod (solid fiberglass in those days with graphite not even invented then) so i'm fighting it...and i feel it suddenly pull free from a headshake....and sensing a plug and treble hooks was heading my way real fast i ducked and turned my back to it.... then i heard WACK as it hit the side of the boat . i checked out the plug for signs of teeth marks and it was now just a half of a plug bitten in half. i think it was a shark though.

Yes, Blues do eat small Stripers. i have seen this happen at least
3 times. All that was left was the Stripers head and my plug.
Last fall was the latest incdent. i switched to a wire leader and the largest plug in my bag and started catching big Blues .
Clammer is right there is much to hate about Bluefish. But if they are the only game in town , the savages are a blessing.

Both stripers and bloos are cannibalistic and will happily eat smaller bretheren on both sides.

Happen to us about 8 years ago in Nov on Watch Hill Beach. I have a picture somewhere of the half a Striper. We were convinced that it was Seals.

A few years ago out on the bay side on the Cape, watch a big(20 lbs) bluefish bite the tail end of a 16-17 inch bass off, only to come back and swim off with what was left struggling on the surface. The bluefish showed no interest in the plug I was throwing, just wanted fresh meat.

A chopper blue could probably bite a small bass in half---but the chances of a teen sized blue being in Bahstahn Hahbah in late April are as close to non-existent as you could probably get ;)

If they could bite a bunker in half, they certainly could bite a small striper.

I always say that if blues grew as big as stripers, no one would ever go swimming.

Past few years in Milford on the Flats. Usually in late Nov. we throw 5" Mambo's to the bass. Usually 23-30" on their move to wherever.

It happens consistently good whack; fish on moderate fight then BANG ZOOM a big hit. The fight slows; you reach for the fish which is still breathing. The 30" is now !5" plus or minus. Nice big head- no butt.

You never see the blues on top and only 10 or so birds above.

Amazin!

gw :eek5: :eek5:
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A couple of years ago I was walking on a South County beach in May on a Sunday afternoon with my wife & son and there on the sand just beyond the wave line was one half of a fresh 20" or so striper. You could clearly see the half moon shaped bite of a bluefish (I guessed) mouth. Also, earlier that morning I had caught my first large blues of the year in that same area. My 3 year old son got a kick out of it but I kindof felt bad for it.

Leave the ethnic crap at the door.