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Last Monday's blitz I encountered comes to mind.Bluefish pushing thousands
of juvenile herring up onto the beach.
And then when it was getting dark everything settles down and gets real quiet and all you see are the tons of dead and dying herring floundering in the water.Then I start seeing the swirls and boils of the bass as they start picking up on them.I caught quite a few 8-10# bass and many blues.
I can also recall a massive blitz of 15-20# bluefish back in '86 right before I left for basic training.Some even went 20+lbs.I remember it was COLD too.I never saw so many broken rods and gear stripped reels before.I still have the rod and reel I used that day.
I can remember my buddy Al catching a 20lber on a foil Combo's wrapper after he lost his Atom popper.Other guys were just picking up the huge pogies that were all over the place and sticking them on a hook.It really didn't matter what you were using,if it had a hook on it and you could cast it 10ft you caught a fish.
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