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I was living and working in Scituate at the time and every day at lunch I would head down to the harbor, grab a sub and park overlooking Peggoty Beach. When I parked that day back in the late 70's, my sub never made it out of the bag. I couldn't believe my eyes as I looked down and the entire cove in front of the beach had spray and jumbo poggies jumping out the water everywhere you looked.
There was one guy on the beach and he already had a 40 lb bass laying on the sand, so I knew this blitz was the real deal. I hit the beach with my 9 foot Penn, Penn 704 or 740 forget and a small supply of atoms poppers. I have never experienced fishing like that before or since. I had a 42 lber on the beach within minutes and continued to catch one monster bass and bluefish after the other. The blues were big as well and every single cast was either a hookup or several hits on the retrieve.
I'll never forget the monster that dwarfed the 40's I caught that day, hit my popper about 10 feet from the beach and I got a good look at her length and girth as she turned and ran. The fish was enormous and after landing two over 50 since, I believe that fish was in the high 50's, maybe even 60+. I don't think I got a good hookup that close and she came unbuttoned after the first run, but I will remember that strike until I'm old and feeble.
First time I've ever left an ongoing blitz, because I was just whipped after 2 hours of nonstop casting and catching. The following year I got a 43 lber off the same beach, but no blitz that day. I got lucky and snagged a live poggie from a small pod that was right up against the beach and for obvious reasons, because that bass hit my poggie the minute I tossed it out about 20 feet.
Hope to get into that type of blitz again, but with the lightening of the length limits, I hope I will be physically able to cast by that time. Tight lines.
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