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Seen a bunch of them. In 75" and 76" workin' w/ Capt. Lucky on the old Seawitch outa Barnstable we had two years in a row blitzes on Billingsgate where 30. 40 and 50 pound fish were on vast schools of squid. The sports on our boat, as were all the other charter boats, were casting Atom Reverses in Amber, Wine and Purple. This was the famous 4th of July Blitzes. The first day we were on them the 4 guys that chartered the boat had 28 fish, nothing under 30 pounds and two in the fifties. All spin casting from a drifting boat.
Then there was June of 78' with my friend Jihn Trainor in his green 4 wheel drive Ford van on Nauset. We started taking fish in the early morning hours on Gibbs cating swimmers in white. When dawn broke it got even better and the sight was amazing. For a good mile in each direction there were bass right in the wash and even more offshore feeding with birds all over them. I f I remember correctly we took near 30 fish to market that day. All 15 to 25 pounders.
Just the year before last we had a two week blitz on Middleground between the Vineyard and the Elizabeths where we caught fish from sun up to sun down as long as the tide was moving. The bass were gorging on squid and I broke out the old Reverses and we slayed them up to the mid twenty pound range.
Everywhere we looked up and down the rip face it was squid jetting out of the water and bass beneath them and gulls picking them out of the air as they sailed out of the first wave to escape the bass.
The best recent was last September on Race Point to High High where me and LaFleur took over 60 fish apiece on needles one night. The event started at around 7:00PM and at 8:30 the next morning we quit cause the Bluefish started to show up. I have 11 inch sandeels in my freeze from that night that the bass were pushing up on the beach as a memento. Biggest sandeels I have ever seen.
There were more as well. My best night on Monomoy was july 26th 1978. I hooked up over thirty times but only landed 14 fish. Smallest bass was 38 pounds. Largest was 42 pounds, I know I had bigger fish on. Came close to getting spooled twice that night
I was fishing with Benny Mastro and #^&#^&#^&#^& Pleska that night. Even though Benny fished right along side of me and was on more times tham I can count he never landed a fish. And #^&#^&#^&#^& took off to the south to fish the new break between north and south Monomoy and took only one 25 pounder. Boy he was really pissed when he came back in the morning.
Blitzes happen more than you think, you got to spend more time in the water or in the surf in order to experience them.
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