Your Best Blitz Experience?

[BigFish]

Inspired by the Bomba Brothers recent blitz experience.....lets hear your best blitz experience stories.....we are talking all out, fish rolling in the wash, birds diving like a Hitchcock movie, whitewater, fish so thick on top you can walk across them, scared bait trying to walk in sand fish catching story!

[BigFish]

My best was one night last June......fishing with Slingah down the backside. We arrived at a fav spot about 9:30 pm just after dark....no one else was there.....yet! We had heard reports of the dreaded MUNG being pretty much every where so Slingah and I thought a test cast might be in order to test the water.....so Slingah put on an olive and white Habs needle and on the first cast "BANG!" he was on.....landing a 15 pounder. I was fishing my first ever plugs...also needles that night and I put on a white one and was on on my third cast.....anoth 15 pounder! Shortly there after we began seeing and hearing fish slapping, rolling and thrashing in the water....night time blitz for sure! Soon after we started....over the dune came the infamous Slipknot and his rod-caddy Bassmaster! (Bustin' BM) They began casting immediately and catching....it was an all night free for all with just the four of us and maybe 2 other fisherman.......Slip and I had a ball dragging fish up to 25 pounds up one after the other, taking turns watching each other and listening to our drags scream! (That was fun huh Slip?) BM and Slingah were a little further down the beach doing their own damage.......they lay claim to a couple in the mix up to 30 pounds! Slip and BM split after a few hours and we headed off the beach to put a few on ice and get back to fishing. When Slingah and I got back on the beach they were still splashing everywhere.....the quarter moon shined enough light you could see the wash turning white! Slingah and I hammered fish until the sun came up.....this happened straight through dead low and back to high! Amazing! Slingah had more than 50 bass that night....all 15 to 30 pounds on Mr Habs needles and a sweet powder blue and white one I had made for him.....he hooked up on the first 3 casts with that one! Remember Slingah? My number were around 25 or 30 fish up to 25 pounds......I think if I had an olive and white needle I would have done better but I was happy crushing with my white needle and my orange and white needle! After my first 17 fish....the split ring on the belly treble on my white needle straightened and the hook came off in the fishes lip as I landed one......so I retired it to my collection for posterity.....it has lots of character! Below is a pic taken by Slip (wish he was in it but he took it).....what a great night with great people!

[Rappin Mikey]

Cool story! Nice pics!

[piemma]

Race Point, Second Rip, July 3 1995. 20 guys fishing rod and reel, both commercial and rec. 1:00 AM to about 4:00 AM a couple a hundred fish all 34" (that was the minimum then) and up. Lot's of fish in the high 30 lb to low 40 lb. All on eels. Nothing breaking but a big fish on every cast. The commercial guys took a few thousand pounds of Bass off the beach that night. As I recall it was mid tide drop with the wind right in our face.

[eelman]

Block Island at Dories Cove about 11 years ago, Nonstop fish from dark till 3am both incoming and outgoing tides, Joe and I had Several fish apiece in The high 30lb range and many, many 20s there were just no small fish there! That night joe busted off with a real cow! The eel would hit the water and you were on..period! they were not fooling around it was great and it was just the two of us there all night.


The other one was in te Fall of 98 in westerly, 18 to 30lb fish for about two hours and then I got my 50, that whole week there was a blitx everynight, have not seen it that good since, that week there were also multiple 40lb fish caught there. That was the last time I saw anything like that....

[beachwalker]

I can't tell you where but I was doing the 2am til dawn program at a favorite rip one October and was getting some steady hook-ups. I could have sworn that I was in a salmon run the way the fish were surging over the bar. When first light came I was blown away to see this exact sight only it was the 10-30 lb bass I had been catching and they were hundreds of yards deep off the shore.

within 30 minutes of light they were gone.....

I was cursing the fact I didn't have a camera.

I have never seen it again....

[Karl F]

North Beach.. 5 or 6 years ago, Remnants of a Florida Hurricane had turned the Ocean into an angry sea, Large Rollers.. daybreak, we had moved all the rigs back up into the grass as the rollers would break, and the water would rush up into the dunes.... as it got light we could see an "aquarium" effect in the Large Rollers... you could see tons of fish in the wave... we tied on tin, and were litterally sight casting into the rollers.. my buddy Eric, my son, and I lost count of the fish we caught,up to 20-25 #, this went on for hours.. and the 3 of us were the only ones we could se on that stretch of beach. All arms falling off at the end of it.. a Good Tired, as my son said.

[Slingah]

That night last June was the best night I have had. What a story that it was Larry's first night out testing his plugs....truly magical.
Also October 9 1999, after fishing the back all night my friend Bob and I try out our last beach about 2:30 a.m....we walk down the dune and a figure comes out of the dark...walks up to us and says "They are here" and leaves. We start fishing..not thinking much of it...and BAM right off the bat we both hook up to thirty pound fish... we beached and kept these fish, not knowing what was to come....... fish up to 40 lbs, every time the eel hit the water..you were on.... and until the sun came up. We were laying on the beach...laughing...not being able to move our arms.... A night I will never forget.

[bassmaster]

Originally Posted by piemma

The commercial guys took a few thousand pounds of Bass off the beach that night. .

nice story fish, to many times to tell but if U hunt U can have alot of nights and days like that

[Back Beach]

Originally Posted by bassmaster

nice story fish, to many times to tell but if U hunt U can have alot of nights and days like that

True, most of the great nights are not well publicized, but it happens more than you think. I usually like to wait several months to let out the info so as to not get the places too crowded while the fishing is good.

[Back Beach]

Originally Posted by piemma

Race Point, Second Rip, July 3 1995. 20 guys fishing rod and reel, both commercial and rec. 1:00 AM to about 4:00 AM a couple a hundred fish all 34" (that was the minimum then) and up. Lot's of fish in the high 30 lb to low 40 lb. All on eels. Nothing breaking but a big fish on every cast. The commercial guys took a few thousand pounds of Bass off the beach that night. As I recall it was mid tide drop with the wind right in our face.

The same thing happened several nights in that same place, but we had to throw everything back as it was before July 1, with a one fish limit at the time. I think June/July 1986 the fishing was just as good there, but most of the fish were 25 plus pounds.The fall of 1993,2001, and 2002 on the back was best for me. If you fished during those times, you know the details of size and quantity landed. It was really nice fishing.