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05-17-2006, 09:19 AM
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Needlefish Nazi
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Blitz
What is a Blitz to you , 5 mins of catching, An hour of catching ,A tide of catching , A day of catching, Lets here..........................
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05-17-2006, 09:25 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: somewhere on a rock
Posts: 1,603
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Habs
in my eyes... a blitz is a catching for a full tide in ONE SPECIFIC SPOT.
there are many times when I will move when a blitz is finished..and find another one happening 4 miles down the road.
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05-17-2006, 09:25 AM
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Frank Capone
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Hamden, Connecticut
Posts: 2,229
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IMHO, blitzes come in all flavors and can last for any of the times you mentioned 5 minutes or 5 hours.
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05-17-2006, 09:25 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Cumberland, RI
Posts: 2,264
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Originally Posted by JHABS
What is a Blitz to you , 5 mins of catching, An hour of catching ,A tide of catching , A day of catching, Lets here..........................
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I'd call it a tide of catching..., Although I'd take a day full  |
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement -- Keith Benning
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05-17-2006, 10:08 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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Seen them go for twenty minutes and some go for days. Blitz is not a measurement of time. It's the accumulated amount of shear feeding by a school(s) of fish at a certain place(s). Blitz conditions are movable feasts. It's the quality of the action. It's a time when there is no such thing as a finicky fish. If it moves it gets eaten by large or smalls.  |
Why even try......... 
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05-17-2006, 10:25 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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I agree with Flap....most I have seen last between 15 minutes to 2 hours....a few I was fortunate to fish lasted 4 or 5 hours and 1 lasted from sunset to sunrise!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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05-17-2006, 10:55 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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Frenzied Feeding! I.ve seen it last from 5 minutes to All day! 8-10 years ago, there were dead peanuts on the stretch between Pamet and BeachPoint from the high water mark to the low water mark. Twice!! Blues, but a superblitz none the less. People still insisted on swimming through out it all!  |
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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05-17-2006, 11:00 AM
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You rang?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Lowell
Posts: 946
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IMO, a big blitz is when you see the seagulls burping and farting on the shore because they ate too much.
I consider a blitz if I catch two fish in a row on consecutive casts |
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05-17-2006, 11:13 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Warwick RI,02889
Posts: 11,786
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A double 6 pack , a couple of J,S add some vik,s  |
ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!
MIKE
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05-17-2006, 11:18 AM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,425
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I sort of think it's like sex, it's all good just some is better.  |
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Lets Go Darwin
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05-17-2006, 12:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: NJ
Posts: 869
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3 hours+ non stop action. Baitfish flopping all over the beach.
You ran out of gatorade, your forearn,wrist, and shoulder muscles ache so bad you have to sit down for a while. Its cold, but you have to wipe the sweat off you forehead.
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05-17-2006, 12:43 PM
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#12
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
Posts: 8,555
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My definition , A blitz is frenzied feeding by a school of fish near the surface . Its nice if it lasts a while.
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Saltheart
Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
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05-17-2006, 01:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Gloucester, MA
Posts: 404
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I would not consider catch a component of a blitz. There have been many an occasion where the fish were keyed in on a certain bait that I was not able to match, i.e., thumbnail sized peanuts or crab hatch etc. The fish were "blitzing' but I was unfortunately not catching, just watching and at times crying.
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05-17-2006, 01:16 PM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
Posts: 6,358
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Not being able to lift and extend your arms.
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Domination takes full concentration..
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05-17-2006, 01:47 PM
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<><><><><><><>
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: somewhere on a rock
Posts: 1,603
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Originally Posted by Clammer
A double 6 pack , a couple of J,S add some vik,s |
Please check yourself into butler/or betty ford  ........I'll drive.. |
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05-17-2006, 01:59 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,203
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I consider it a maddening feeding frenzy where no matter what you throw in the water it gets whacked. Tails Slapping, Bait jumping out of the water, the sound of drag Screaming.
Oh...and it always occurs while I'm at Work |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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05-17-2006, 02:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 833
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The False Albacore come up and are gone in 3 seconds - I still consider that a blitz |
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05-17-2006, 02:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 297
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something I have never experienced  |
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05-17-2006, 02:34 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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a couple of hours...best blitz I ever fished was at the Second Rip in July of 92. 2 hours of 25 to 35 lb fish. The commercial guys went off the beach with 5 or 6 hundred pounds in their coolers. BTW, I often hear about these 1000 pound nights. 40 years and I never saw one. Someone needs to show me the slips....
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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05-17-2006, 03:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 1,008
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clammer you crack me up man..haha
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05-17-2006, 03:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Warwick RI,02889
Posts: 11,786
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MXC don,t ya think that would qualify ..,
paul -I guess we S/h saved slips |
ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!
MIKE
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05-17-2006, 04:00 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 1,008
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it does indeed my friend..thats my kinda blitz too  |
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05-17-2006, 04:04 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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Originally Posted by JHABS
What is a Blitz to you , 5 mins of catching, An hour of catching ,A tide of catching , A day of catching, Lets here..........................
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All of the above, as long as the bait is there and stripers and blues are feeding on them It is a blitz. |
Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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05-17-2006, 06:15 PM
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Stuck In Reality
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Holden MA
Posts: 4,519
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Last year at the end of the season I had to leave the fish blitzing to get to work. Non stop for 4+ hrs. Up and down a mile long section of beach numerous times. I didn't mind leaving I was so tired.
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05-17-2006, 06:40 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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Originally Posted by piemma
BTW, I often hear about these 1000 pound nights. 40 years and I never saw one. Someone needs to show me the slips....
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200 pounds a pop spread across 5 family members  |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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05-17-2006, 06:49 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Hard aground
Posts: 1,362
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A blitz?
Is that like what happened when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor  |
Plugs Rule 
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05-17-2006, 07:42 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Originally Posted by ThrowingTimber
Not being able to lift and extend your arms.
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Like TT said, no time to eat or drink, ya can't make another cast and go home to ice down your arm.  |
" Choose Life "
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05-17-2006, 08:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Framingham, MA, USA
Posts: 410
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Blitz= "you shouda been here yesterday"
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05-17-2006, 09:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 1,008
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HURT' EM
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05-17-2006, 10:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
Posts: 1,701
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Blitz
Long Island Sound in the early and mid 1970s, bluefish blitzes that stretched for miles, lasted hours and sometimes an entire day ... the kind of blitz that you could run off and do an errand and still get back to for more action ...
... what it boils down is mad hysteria where pretty much anything will work, you run out of lures, sore arms ... and when the blues are pushing the pogies into a corner, you know that big bass are lurking close at hand waiting/pushing for the scraps |
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