RI Blitz??

[Rick Ackley]

Is this the aftermath of a "Spot-Burn? or just friends out for a good time?

[BigFish]

I would run before I would fish in a crowd like that!

[BigFish]

That spot looks familiar too!

[Sgt Striper]

Sneakers on, running back and forth to cast, I just love that!

[bassballer]

thats the exact reason i dont frequent those spots. but the blitz looks nice.

[InTheHole]

I'll bet Wal-mart is out of ugly stick combos!

[Odizza]

if you dont have all the gear.... dont fish!
no ugly sticks or shoes on the beach!!!

yeah...crowded spot during a blitz!!

ahah makes me laugh

now i do have the descent gear but i wouldnt knock something like that


i remember all the quotes from jordan, bird , and all the class guys talking down about a pickup game of basketball and just laughing and pointing!

pat the chests fellas.... pat em hard

[Odizza]

yeah i understand the original intent of thread... but then come the knocks

i played a game of b ball the other day and 3 people were not wearing nike's

it was so funny

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Odizza

now i do have the descent gear but i wouldnt knock something like that

I wouldn't knock it but I wouldn't run up & down in my sneakers for it either

But we can't always have a private blitz of 30 pound fish

[Odizza]

exactly my point...

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by JohnR

I wouldn't knock it but I wouldn't run up & down in my sneakers for it either

I did it bear foot in my shorts yesterday...

[HESH2]

its the same on the breachways with no korkers trying to go down to get fish in the seaweed and waves crashing.all in all it's tough to see a blitz going on and not jump in regardless of what your wearing or using.i think thats why alot of us pick our spots where we don't run into those kind of situations,but if i was driving bye i would have joined.


Sorry , edited wrong post. My edits erased.

[ThrowingTimber]

Theyve been there since last Sunday, its about time word got out. Bigger fish mixed in but all sublegals in tight. Last weekend I cleared out a nice space for myself when I broke out the fly rod

[Saltheart]

Yep , up and down to keep the sneaks dry but try as you may , you will eventually get a wave over the shoes and wet the jeans up to about mid shin!. Been there , done that decades ago. Some things never change. People have a ball doing it. I once saw a girl in gym shorts and bare feet do this for about 3 hours in late november until her lips were purple from the cold. We let her sit in our truck and warm up. I think its great peopie get so psyched. Who cares if they are experts? They are having fun!! .

[Skitterpop]

Looks like they are having fun, excitement, and doing what many of us love to do so why knock it?

Fishing in crowds like that or even 1/6 th that size is not for me but why disparage those who don`t have all the right gear or are at different levels in their fishing experience and who are into some sort of blitz?

[luds]

I would have wet my pants if I was they're. Who cares about the crowd. I didn't have a daytime blitz all year.

[Odizza]

Originally Posted by Saltheart

Yep , up and down to keep the sneaks dry but try as you may , you will eventually get a wave over the shoes and wet the jeans up to about mid shin!. Been there , done that decades ago. Some things never change. People have a ball doing it. I once saw a girl in gym shorts and bare feet do this for about 3 hours in late november until her lips were purple from the cold. We let her sit in our truck and warm up. I think its great peopie get so psyched. Who cares if they are experts? They are having fun!! .

thats what its all about!! regardless of level

[Vogt]

I was there. It was insane. I ran into that blitz by accident. It just got more and more crowded as the day went on with cll phone calls and all. That picture was posted on CTFisherman(a report site) about three days after the blitz took place. It wasnt even crowed on the days following the blitz, I was suprised.

[RIJIMMY]

am I missing something are these big fish or teh norma schoolies? Isnt there always blitzes like this (schooliefest) in that general area this time of year? I had some 50+ fish days.

[Vogt]

Small fish, not even a keeper.

[The Iceman 6]

I was fortunate enought to be involved in a few blitzes like that this year. Hours on end, the best one being at night and there was only 3 of us there and there was big bass too. It's all part of the experience.

[STREETFIGHT]

its like that every nov. i bring my kids- was there for 4 days last week before word got out- had fishing like that to ourselves at times other times was at most 8 or 10 others- phew- my oldest daughter got 1 about 24 inches o'wise its all 18/20 inch fish.

[Rockfish9]

If I saw that many people standing where i wanted to fish.. I'd go home.... no fish is worth that kind of misery... I guess I'm just spoiled.

[RIROCKHOUND]

So many wounded schoolies...
Not to generalize, but a lot of the sneaker crowd doesn't have clue 1 about handling these fish carefully.... makes me sad.

[ChiefLinesider]

Take a look at the guy in the Brown jacket...

[cheferson]

or the dink just sitting on the sand

[BigFish]

Even if they were 40 pounders all day long...I would not fish in that!

Looks like "GooganFest 07"!

[bart]

yeah right. i'd fish on someone's shoulders for 40s all day...

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by Saltheart

Yep , up and down to keep the sneaks dry but try as you may , you will eventually get a wave over the shoes and wet the jeans up to about mid shin!. Been there , done that decades ago. Some things never change. People have a ball doing it. I once saw a girl in gym shorts and bare feet do this for about 3 hours in late november until her lips were purple from the cold. We let her sit in our truck and warm up. I think its great peopie get so psyched. Who cares if they are experts? They are having fun!! .

You know what's wrong about it? It increases release mortality.

Guys drag fish up over the sand to keep their feet dry. This removes most of the protective slime from at least one side of the fish (and often both sides when the fish flops around). Then, dollars to donuts they don't have pliers, so they run up to the truck or to the tackle box placed high and dry for pliers. Then they run down and throw the fish into a receding wave, but of course, by the time the fish lands after the sand crab discus flip, the wave has receded too far and the fish lands with a thump on the sand. Waves coming in cycles as they do, the next wave doesn't quite reach the fish so they kind of gingerly run down and give it a little "help" towards the water by booting it with their feet. Then, repeat with a dozen small fish over the next half hour or so. How many of those fish actually make it after being treated like that? I've seen this a thousand times in my life if I've seen it once.

But hey--they're having fun and after all, they're just fish.

Sorry for being the elitist snob that I am

[Slick Moedee]

Following up on what Mike P. has pointed out, yes it is all in good fun, but there is a cost to that fun. The 2006 Mass SB Monitoring Report was just released recently and the recreational release mortality numbers were twice what the harvest numbers were by number of individuals, something like and estimated 700,000 post release mortality to 350,000 retained fish. Haven't read through the full report to check on estimation methodologies but there is definitely an impact to all this excitement.