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Goose I was over there a couple weeks back and marking so many fish it was unreal, but tap-tap-tap told me scup; the occassional snag confirmed. I jigged that area for over an hour figuring just that, because when I hit scup in 50-75 feet off the vineyard, I usually start to hit some blackies.
Do people fish blind for these fish, targetting humps and holes, or will they suspend off the bottom in numbers where you can search for them before drifting and dropping jigs? When I hit them, it seems like I'll mark good numbers of what I assume are scup on bottom, or small groups of what I assume are the blackies as the returns on the depth finder are completely different then the masses of scup I'll mark.
I typically use jigs, although I do remember one very successful trip off the deep side of Lucas, were I used a freshwater tactic as I had no bait or bluefish for fluke rigs. Went with a carolina rig approach with small 3-4" plastic rigged weightless of the end of large egg singers and the blackies loved it.
I'm hoping I hit a nice pod soon, I've only had one to eat thus far and I'd trade all the fluke I've eatten for that one fish.....yum.
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