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JHABS
05-17-2006, 09:19 AM
What is a Blitz to you , 5 mins of catching, An hour of catching ,A tide of catching , A day of catching, Lets here..........................

jim sylvester
05-17-2006, 09:25 AM
Habs
in my eyes... a blitz is a catching for a full tide in ONE SPECIFIC SPOT.

there are many times when I will move when a blitz is finished..and find another one happening 4 miles down the road.

fcap60
05-17-2006, 09:25 AM
IMHO, blitzes come in all flavors and can last for any of the times you mentioned 5 minutes or 5 hours.

JFigliuolo
05-17-2006, 09:25 AM
What is a Blitz to you , 5 mins of catching, An hour of catching ,A tide of catching , A day of catching, Lets here..........................

I'd call it a tide of catching..., Although I'd take a day full :)

Flaptail
05-17-2006, 10:08 AM
Seen them go for twenty minutes and some go for days. Blitz is not a measurement of time. It's the accumulated amount of shear feeding by a school(s) of fish at a certain place(s). Blitz conditions are movable feasts. It's the quality of the action. It's a time when there is no such thing as a finicky fish. If it moves it gets eaten by large or smalls.:wave:

BigFish
05-17-2006, 10:25 AM
I agree with Flap....most I have seen last between 15 minutes to 2 hours....a few I was fortunate to fish lasted 4 or 5 hours and 1 lasted from sunset to sunrise!:uhuh:

Backbeach Jake
05-17-2006, 10:55 AM
Frenzied Feeding! I.ve seen it last from 5 minutes to All day! 8-10 years ago, there were dead peanuts on the stretch between Pamet and BeachPoint from the high water mark to the low water mark. Twice!! Blues, but a superblitz none the less. People still insisted on swimming through out it all!:shocked:

lurch
05-17-2006, 11:00 AM
IMO, a big blitz is when you see the seagulls burping and farting on the shore because they ate too much.

I consider a blitz if I catch two fish in a row on consecutive casts :)

Clammer
05-17-2006, 11:13 AM
A double 6 pack , a couple of J,S add some vik,s :buds:

Pete F.
05-17-2006, 11:18 AM
I sort of think it's like sex, it's all good just some is better.:jump:

Diamond Tackle
05-17-2006, 12:21 PM
3 hours+ non stop action. Baitfish flopping all over the beach.
You ran out of gatorade, your forearn,wrist, and shoulder muscles ache so bad you have to sit down for a while. Its cold, but you have to wipe the sweat off you forehead.

Saltheart
05-17-2006, 12:43 PM
My definition , A blitz is frenzied feeding by a school of fish near the surface . Its nice if it lasts a while.

Slick Moedee
05-17-2006, 01:06 PM
I would not consider catch a component of a blitz. There have been many an occasion where the fish were keyed in on a certain bait that I was not able to match, i.e., thumbnail sized peanuts or crab hatch etc. The fish were "blitzing' but I was unfortunately not catching, just watching and at times crying.

ThrowingTimber
05-17-2006, 01:16 PM
Not being able to lift and extend your arms.
:smokin:

jim sylvester
05-17-2006, 01:47 PM
A double 6 pack , a couple of J,S add some vik,s :buds:


Please check yourself into butler/or betty ford:uhoh: ........I'll drive..

The Dad Fisherman
05-17-2006, 01:59 PM
I consider it a maddening feeding frenzy where no matter what you throw in the water it gets whacked. Tails Slapping, Bait jumping out of the water, the sound of drag Screaming.

Oh...and it always occurs while I'm at Work :wall:

Gloucester2
05-17-2006, 02:07 PM
The False Albacore come up and are gone in 3 seconds - I still consider that a blitz :uhuh:

Adamfishes
05-17-2006, 02:12 PM
something I have never experienced:(

piemma
05-17-2006, 02:34 PM
a couple of hours...best blitz I ever fished was at the Second Rip in July of 92. 2 hours of 25 to 35 lb fish. The commercial guys went off the beach with 5 or 6 hundred pounds in their coolers. BTW, I often hear about these 1000 pound nights. 40 years and I never saw one. Someone needs to show me the slips....

MotoXcowboy
05-17-2006, 03:12 PM
clammer you crack me up man..haha
:cheers:

Clammer
05-17-2006, 03:18 PM
MXC don,t ya think that would qualify ..,


paul -I guess we S/h saved slips :uhuh:

MotoXcowboy
05-17-2006, 04:00 PM
it does indeed my friend..thats my kinda blitz too :tm:

tattoobob
05-17-2006, 04:04 PM
What is a Blitz to you , 5 mins of catching, An hour of catching ,A tide of catching , A day of catching, Lets here..........................

All of the above, as long as the bait is there and stripers and blues are feeding on them It is a blitz.

tynan19
05-17-2006, 06:15 PM
Last year at the end of the season I had to leave the fish blitzing to get to work. Non stop for 4+ hrs. Up and down a mile long section of beach numerous times. I didn't mind leaving I was so tired.

Mike P
05-17-2006, 06:40 PM
BTW, I often hear about these 1000 pound nights. 40 years and I never saw one. Someone needs to show me the slips....

200 pounds a pop spread across 5 family members ;)

PNG
05-17-2006, 06:49 PM
A blitz?

Is that like what happened when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor:confused:

justplugit
05-17-2006, 07:42 PM
Not being able to lift and extend your arms.
:smokin:

Like TT said, no time to eat or drink, ya can't make another cast and go home to ice down your arm. :D

Bazza
05-17-2006, 08:21 PM
Blitz= "you shouda been here yesterday"

MotoXcowboy
05-17-2006, 09:46 PM
HURT' EM

Finaddict
05-17-2006, 10:53 PM
Long Island Sound in the early and mid 1970s, bluefish blitzes that stretched for miles, lasted hours and sometimes an entire day ... the kind of blitz that you could run off and do an errand and still get back to for more action ...

... what it boils down is mad hysteria where pretty much anything will work, you run out of lures, sore arms ... and when the blues are pushing the pogies into a corner, you know that big bass are lurking close at hand waiting/pushing for the scraps :jump1:

bloocrab
05-17-2006, 11:50 PM
..,Blitz is not a measurement of time. It's the accumulated amount of shear feeding by a school(s) of fish at a certain place(s). Blitz conditions are movable feasts. It's the quality of the action. It's a time when there is no such thing as a finicky fish. If it moves it gets eaten by large or smalls...


Those first 2 sentences sum it up for me...thanks FlapT, I couldn't have said it any better...:wave:



The other definition of a Blitz is ...when even JohnR can catch a fish .. :jump1: :rotf2:

bluzjamer
05-18-2006, 12:12 AM
Ah...the kraut thingy....was BlitzKrieg...Ya! Vas is Los..mann!
I used to get blitzed while fishing but these daze it is frowned on especially if you ist driving das boot..ya! Into zee bilge Wolfgang.
No more Snapps and Becks......but der Jagermeister cometh!!!!
Danke Adolf!

NIB
05-18-2006, 07:28 AM
Seen them go for twenty minutes and some go for days. Blitz is not a measurement of time. It's the accumulated amount of shear feeding by a school(s) of fish at a certain place(s). Blitz conditions are movable feasts. It's the quality of the action. It's a time when there is no such thing as a finicky fish. If it moves it gets eaten by large or smalls.:wave:


What he said.
Good fishing is different.that could just be a bunch of fish stacked up like cordwood in a specific spot that u catch on almost consecutive casts.
Blitz=Fish Kaos.

RIROCKHOUND
05-18-2006, 07:58 AM
A blitz for me......






Is the opposite of last night :D

jim sylvester
05-18-2006, 08:52 AM
A blitz for me......






Is the opposite of last night :D


say it aint so

backbeach
05-18-2006, 10:57 AM
Throwing Timber, Thats a torn rotator cuff, not a blitz. (I've experienced both) A blitz to me is frenzied surface feeding that lasts long enough to pull some fish out of it before it ends- more than a momentary eruption of bait...IMHO....

zimmy
05-18-2006, 11:37 AM
Yeah what Flap and Salt said. Frenzied chompin splashin madness. May only last but a minute...

Redsoxticket
05-18-2006, 01:42 PM
Blitz, well lets say a hook up at least every other cast.

Pete F.
05-18-2006, 02:15 PM
Yeah what Flap and Salt said. Frenzied chompin splashin madness. May only last but a minute...
I said it was like sex:fishslap:
Sometimes it's short and sweet, or long and tender but always more fun if you're catchin than watchin.

stiff tip
05-18-2006, 06:28 PM
ya;;;;like flap said ????a good night w/a bad ,bad girl ''''

JoeP
05-18-2006, 08:17 PM
Seen them go for twenty minutes and some go for days. Blitz is not a measurement of time. It's the accumulated amount of shear feeding by a school(s) of fish at a certain place(s). Blitz conditions are movable feasts. It's the quality of the action. It's a time when there is no such thing as a finicky fish. If it moves it gets eaten by large or smalls.:wave:

I agree with Flap. A "blitz" to me is not really the amount of time but the heightened level of all out feeding frenzy action - like a high energy spurt of feeding activity that can be for minutes or hours. Obviously hours is better :drool: .

Kind of like the difference between a couple of sharks feeding lazily and a bunch of sharks with blood in the water in a full out feeding frenzy.

However, I've been in a few "blitzes" with very finicky fish on worms or peanuts when there is so much bait around and they're so keyed in on that bait they will not hit anything. Kind of makes you want to throw all you gear in the water and go home...