Sorry if you may have seen this but it is really cool. If you only have a couple minutes then skip to the last 2 to 3 minutes. I've seen shore blitzes before but never anything like this.
4 days earlier, that same year, I was in the boat in the middle of a blitz 20 times that. 2-4 feet of water and all you could see was millions of blues everywhere. the water was a non stop boil. This was spread out over a mile or so. There were so many birds that you could barely cast. I wish I had my camera as I had never seen so much carnage in my life.
I'd go back that night at high tide and fish pogie chunks. The clean up crew would be there under cover of darkness gorging themselves. It would be automatic.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
something like that happened around my parts a couple of years ago now, I got there too late, but the pogies were still there with nothing chasing them. The following winter a local sharpie described the event at a seminar and said that he went back at night thinking he was going to just slay big bass and he got skunked. Go figure!
the was late late fall though, so the bass were probably already gone at that point.
thanks for the post. i real wise man would just be picking up the plugs off the beach. 6 0r 7 yrs. ago, my better half, and i, lost 14 plugs in a day in a blitz like that. this is using 48", 80lb. wire leaders. just too many fish.
put them back alive. i do have grandkids.
as your hair gets whiter, your gear gets lighter.
great video. I was part of a blitz like that on Long Island on Columbus day 10 years ago. Giant Bluefish and 8-10 weakfish running the peanuts so hard a wave would crest and dump 100's high and dry on the sand. We had to put our rods down and grab the weakfish by the tails and get them back in the water they got dumped so far up the beach. Very cool and the fishing that day was epic from sunrise the sunset. I landed a 20 lb blue that day, 10 lb weakfish and 10-15 lb bass till you begged someone to take the rod out of your hands. Ranks as one of the coolest things I saw and was part of.
something like that happened around my parts a couple of years ago now, I got there too late, but the pogies were still there with nothing chasing them. The following winter a local sharpie described the event at a seminar and said that he went back at night thinking he was going to just slay big bass and he got skunked. Go fi -ably already gone at that point.
I know the blitz and the sharpie you speak of-It was early November, only difference from that video was that they were chasing adult bunker. I was an hour late but guessed right as to where they would be the next morning down the coast a bit. Bruiser blues and big bunker jumping over rocks to escape-unforgettable. Only saw one big bass taken by a fly-guy in the midst of the mayhem. Great memory I am hoping to relive this season!
yeah that stuff does get your juices flowing ... gotta love that kind of stuff once and awhile ... can always expect great action in the Bob Popovics videos ... he and his crew do a great job.
Thanks for the post.
"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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