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Sweetwater · 07-04-2005, 12:34 PM

September 2001: I was fishing in the north cape area (is that broad enough?) from a friend's boat late in the afternoon. The water was flat calm and there were bazillioins of peanut bunker everywhere. I was on my cellphone when the water by the boat began to boil. I told the person on the phone to "listen to this!" I held the phone out toward the blitz and he said it sounded like "a torrential rain storm." But no, it was a massive blitz that covered well over an acre of water.

All three of us aboard threw poppers and immediatiatly and we had triples. I was surprised to find that the blitz was not blue fish, but stripers in the 26 to 32 inch range, and they were ravenous.

In the excitment, the boat owner dropped his rod overboard (somehow he missed the rod holder on the gunwale completely), in about 18 to 20 feet of water. Next thing I know, he jumps overboard (fully clothed except for shoes) and is diving for his gear. He is swimmng right in the middle of the blitz, with 8 to 15 pound stripers slashing into bunker, and me still wizzing a Gibbs popper right by his head and catching fish.

Upon resurfacing after several dive attempts, he climbed back on board and reported that there were even larger fish /under/ the boil that swam right past him as he searched for his rod and reel. Evidently the drift was too fast and we couldn't get back on the spot.

07-04-2005, 12:34 PM	#6
Sweetwater Ruled only by the tide iTrader: (0) Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Truro Posts: 801	Best (funniest) blitz experience September 2001: I was fishing in the north cape area (is that broad enough?) from a friend's boat late in the afternoon. The water was flat calm and there were bazillioins of peanut bunker everywhere. I was on my cellphone when the water by the boat began to boil. I told the person on the phone to "listen to this!" I held the phone out toward the blitz and he said it sounded like "a torrential rain storm." But no, it was a massive blitz that covered well over an acre of water. All three of us aboard threw poppers and immediatiatly and we had triples. I was surprised to find that the blitz was not blue fish, but stripers in the 26 to 32 inch range, and they were ravenous. In the excitment, the boat owner dropped his rod overboard (somehow he missed the rod holder on the gunwale completely), in about 18 to 20 feet of water. Next thing I know, he jumps overboard (fully clothed except for shoes) and is diving for his gear. He is swimmng right in the middle of the blitz, with 8 to 15 pound stripers slashing into bunker, and me still wizzing a Gibbs popper right by his head and catching fish. Upon resurfacing after several dive attempts, he climbed back on board and reported that there were even larger fish /under/ the boil that swam right past him as he searched for his rod and reel. Evidently the drift was too fast and we couldn't get back on the spot.
	Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.