Me and My dad were fishing tonight with Live mackerel when after the line with a mackerel on it stoped in the water, I reeled it in and was supprised to find a bite about 1" + 1/2" by 1" out of the side of the fish the bite was shallow and was not bleeding. What might have bit this 10" fish? We also saw some surface activity, big explosions of water and foam the nothing. I think that the these were not stripers but blues. Can any one say anymore

Down East,

The surface of the water was boiling with alot of splashes and fast moving fish??? You saw a school of blues crashing through baitfish, always an awesome sight!!! That was most definitely a blue casusing that damage. Blues slash through schools of bait chomping whatever they can. Stripes, crush a fish while swallowing it, no real teeth with which to bite...

'Luck...

Don't you think that it is strange that the blues were in a tidal cove that is not more than 15' deep where they were? I mean 1/2 mile from anythins deeper then 40' I don't know...

Down East, Blue fish will chase bait up onto rocks, beaches an anything they can, to EAT IT. my daughter goes to Hampton beach in the summer an they are in the water nipping at alkle bracelest, there in there chasing bait fish an when they see FLASH BAAAAAMMMMMMMM!
"GOOD LUCK,GOOD FISHIN" <*)))><

Thanks for the info. can you catch blues on a flyrod?

I mean is it possable and is it fun?

It's fun but expensive. If you get a decent blue, he can rip a fly to shreds in a few bites. You can use anything that you would use for stripers, but you need to get a wire trace from the local flyshop or B&T

Down,

Where are you hooking these mackeral? Bluefish are tail biters. They run up, disable the fish. Stripers are side bashers. They swim up along side it and turn their head and swallow it and crush the whole fish in their throats. Placing hooks in certain places will increase hook ups. For stripers, I hook the fish through the nose or the eye sockets. For bluefish, I hook them right behind the dorsal. I don't know why you want to catch bluefish though

I Just want to catch what is in the cove, because I live by it.