Spence...
You should see what we do to live scup
Or live Bluefish offshore...
In the 80's bass was slow and GATOR bluefish would inhabit the harbor all summer... drifting the mooring fields with 10-15lb blues on top chasin adult pogies.... I remember snagging them right off the dock and fishing them right on the snag hook....
now just babys show up like that all summer... biggest I saw in the lower bay were 4-6" tops.... between Omega and a cleaner bay (They are filter feeders less %$%$%$%$, less pogies??/) they arent what they used to be....
TOrlando...... sure they are pogies and not shad or Alewife?
I used to use a sabiki alot to catch tinkers and herring in the harbor and never mouth hooked a pogie....