I got this blue off p-town earlier this year. The fishing was slow so that helped make this feel even bigger, but it was 17lbs and gave a great fight.
http://www.striped-bass.com/gallery/...0801060002.JPG

When I was a mate on a boat in Quincy 1986 - 89 blues were the only game in town. Head out to graves, troll rapalas, set the clicker, hear the reel buzz ......catch blues. good times :uhuh: .

Damn Flap....that record would have gone down the tubes had I had my usual 15 pound momo on....put 20 pound on for Cutty though!:huh:

ya...but you also might not have landed the fish with the 15#
congrats on the catch....you deserved a nice fish.....

I think I would have!:uhuh:

My grandfather at one time held the RI state record - I believe 24.5lbs. I have the pic on my computer but am having trouble uploading it. Any tips on resizing, and I'll put it up.

I feel small compared to some of you guys. My biggest is only about 13#, never weighed but another site member was there and estimated, I'll take his word for it.

How big is that one in Red Top? Biggest I've ever seen.

My largest bluefish
 

17.60 pounds, caught at sunrise the last day of the vineyard derby 1985.:bl:

Blue fish are like the Pats an Jersey guys they suck.
Who cares, I torture every one i catch like clamma.
Who the F would take credit never mind weigh or take picture of a blue.they eat there own u can catch em on a butter knife.devil wit fins.

I like bluefish and I think thats really all that matters......this is a "biggest bluefish" thread not a "who hates bluefish" thread.....if you hate them so much then just be happy there is one less!:jump1:

In 1986 in late fall I was fortunate to be present for a blitz of truly huge bluefish.Most over 20#s with many as large 22-23#S!I have yet to ever see anything close to that since though I did get an 18#er earlier this year.

Larry,

2 Years ago Labor Day weekend 39" 21.6 Lbs sucked down a Pencil Popper then sounded and fought like a nice bass. never surfaced until I slid it onto the rocks. Thought for sure I had a 30 lb bass until I slid it onto the rocks.

I am surprised that clammer hasn't blasted off yet ;)
he must be undercovers :devil:
he will go nuts when he reads thits thread, I bet... :uhuh:

As Habs said, The hill used to have some monsters, there not there anymore like that and that was about 12-13 years ago....fish between 15 and 20lbs in september and October mixed in with the bass.....They do fight like nothing else........

CONGRATS BF :wave:
A 16.78lb from the beach on the vineyard 1999
VB

Who knows.. 14-15lbs were fairly common deep water off newport years ago... Numbskull was right though different animal in shallow water...
in a boulder field a couple years ago... in the middle of a good night of 10-15lb bass I had a swirl, set and screamed line... after a good fight I pulled up a 14+blue snagged in the back with a 7" rebel... PIEMMA heard me cursing up a bluestreak from 100yds away, thought I finally had my 40 that night... d'oh

17lbs and some ozs. at hatteras when I was 6. Nice fighting fish at that age or any age.

22 and change off Seguin Island Maine.

16.5 Gutted. So that may have been 18.5 on a bucktail at the dumping ground outside Boston around 1984.

I don't care what NIB says, even though I'm a fellow Jerseyan. :D But I'll take a big blue anyday just for the fight they put up. And they're getting bigger and bigger not to mention more numerous every year with the huge schools of bunker we're getting now.

My biggest so far was about 35-36" in length, not sure of the weight. But I was at a huge bluefish blitz at IBSP this spring where blues up to 20 lbs were taken. Some of those things I saw caught were absolute monsters, just big nasty-looking buggers. :eek: :err:

I was there for a few of them days.The day before they had big bass so I went down.The big bait had been off the beach weel first light i picked a area to go on (NO 4x4) an I see the bait right in the wash.I,m pumped up first cast Big blue.damn..I made a few more cast's caught a few more an got out of there heard of a few bass gettin caught.Guys lost alot of nice plugs trowin em at the blues.Jackasses...

Maybe u should change ur name to Bluefish..:hihi:
Ya Ya...We kinda need em lots of bass blitzes on shore happen cause the devil with fins drive or pin the bait in.they wreck ur plugs an hardware.They make tackle shop owners happy.If bass ever go away again I guess they would be the next best thing.
Thank you for makin the world a one less blue fish place.

Clammers evil twin...:devil2:

Yeah, I hear you. I had heard of big bass taken also which was why I went down. I also heard it was more blues than bass but I figured I would give it a shot and maybe luck out with a big bass or two. It wasn't to be that day as blues just totally dominated the scene. Luckily for me I didn't lose one plug in two hours of non-stop action. But God my arms and shoulders ached so much for a couple days! A couple times I thought I had a huge monster blue or bass but turned out to be a double-header of big blues on the old beat-up pencil. :)

Thank U.:D
Fished on a boat this spring guys rod got broke buy a blue.Well after that u didn't want to be a blue fish....
:err:

I never keep or weigh blues so I'm not sure, but if I catch a real big one I'll often measure length just for fun. I've caught many in the 36-38 inch range and fat. So maybe 17-18 pounds or so might be the biggest?

All from shore.....those alligator sized ones fight like crazy.

Yeah me too. Just not as big..mine was around 35" and id guess 12lbs..

Had fun gettin that one in...it dogged like crazy

38" 18 Pounds 2 years ago on one of my poppers... I thought sure it was 35 pound bass... would've weighed more but it spit up 2 coffee cup sized balls of bunker.

My friend caught one a few years before on a deadly #^&#^&#^&#^& that measured 46" he released it... had to be close to that 28 pound record if not way over... what a horse!

17 lbs, from the beach in R.I. on fresh peanut bunker 5 or 6 years ago in Sept. is my best.

14 lbs.

It was also my first bluefish (that I remeber)

Bout 15 years ago.. WAY inside the taunton river - like past the Berkelely Bridge. .. You could of walked across the pogies in there that year.

off Ptown, 5 years ago - on squid - 17 lbs. 3 huge leaps out of the water, down deep and then came at the boat - :scream:

one night last year- walked 30 minutes to a spot and took 3 casts with a darter into the rrrrrip- first cast had all hooks straightened- I figured it was a horse bass over 40 lbs. 2nd cast after bending my hools back- 14.5 lbs on the boga- next cast 15.5 lbs.. after that i screwed outta there.. to me, gator bloos are a nice fight, but its not what i am after.

17# on a wonderbread windcheater.

Wonderbread wincheater from Indiana?

consecutive casts from the beach one night two years ago, both fish were 40" and I figured over eighteen lbs. They fought so hard I still thought the second one was a bass over 40

clammer wouldnt know the real leangh because he cuts off there heads befor he has a chance to measure. haha jk.... kinda


oOo BLUE FISH LOOK OUT FOR CLAMMER:eyes:

Good job Larry.

Back in the day when the harbor was loaded with pogies, we used to chunk them up one after another,, not over 20lbs, but pretty close.

Didn't matter too much cause we lost count after like 30 each.
We wouldnt leave til we ran out of bait.

I'm not sure what was my biggest weight, but I recall getting about $1.50 a pound a few times !!!
My son Leo got one last year a bit over 12lbs @ 7 years old :cool:

I want to know,
What's Clammer's biggest blue fish ???:conf:

dont forget...... minus the head hahahaha


:doh: poor fishy:hang:

JK CLAMMER:btu: