Your Best Blitz Experience?

[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.

[Nebe]

2 falls ago i decided to check out ********** ave in gansett... it was high noon and i brought a sandwich with me. My plan was more about having lunch, than fishing, so i went down there without my pole. after i got half way throuh my sanwich i had to take a pee so I walked over a rocky ledge and when i was doing my thing I saw it... a massive pod of mid teen sized fish boiling in the pocket that forms the south side of ******** rock. I couldnt believe it, and all my gear was in the truck, but i ran up, grabbed all my junk and came back down to begin the carnage. It was sick!!! every cast i had a bass on. I had a teaser on too, so i had multiple douples which got interesting...the best part was watching the bass push the peanuts up onto the rocks and then to see the bass beach them selves trying to get to them. That night i sent throwing timber a PM about it and we went down there the next morning to try to find them, but they were not there like the day before... I ended up with a double header- 35 inch bass on the teaser and a 37 inch bass on the plug, but that was it for the day

[Clammer]

BLiTZ --I,Ve had many but I can,t remember my best because I must have ben BLITZED

[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.

[justplugit]

Noreaster, Nov 11, 1997. Wind and rain in the face, breakers 4-6. Started catching at 9:30am. Rods bent up and down the beach as far as you could see. Birds diving at your feet with peanuts runnin up the dunes to escape.Used every plug in the bag with a fish on every other cast. Fish 28-36 in with a 48in by my friend next to me. Lasted til 4:00 without food or water. What you read about,dream about and i will probably never experience again. Indelible in your mind like it happened yesterday. BLESSED.

[striprman]

I've been at a couple blitzes in the canal, I think I caught about 30 fish one morning. People stopped their cars on the Bourne bridge to get out and look at the froth from the maritime up to the herring run. The water was black with fish.

[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.

[NIB]

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Nj is the land of blitz fishin.In the early 90's I have had 80-100 fish days/nights when the sand eels where here.mayhem on the peanuts in the last 6-7 years.an recently large bunker pods gettin pushed/trapped againts the jetty's.most of the fish in the pic are 20lbs plus.mine was 26 I am on the left side wit the white boots.Thats Gary2 next to me.one fish im the middle is 36 an change.Hundreds of fish over 30 have been taken this yr on pencils.Simply amazing fishin.
This has been goin on for a 3 yrs now since they pushed the bunker reduction boats off shore.I remember one of the first times we got em.It was a boiling hot summer day an my friend called around 4:30.I was at work still he had a few bunker to liveline.so I met him at a jetty an we swam some baits.nothin doin so i moved a big squall was comin thru an he had no rain gear an left.So I was livelinen an there was One bolt of lightning an its raining I say to myself one more bolt an I'm out of here.well it never happened I got one high teenager an relesed him back at the truck another bud pulls up an says two friends are down the street.so we go over there an as we get out of the truck we can see that the jetty is blowin up wit bunker pinned. i yell get ur rods an a gaff an we run down an proceed to tommahawk 30 lbers for 2 hrs. only the 4 of us at first but many would see us as this spot can be seen from a road.one fish taken on a little creek chub popper was 46 lbs.There have been many similar events since then in the last three yrs the 2nd week in june till it ends sometime after the 4 th.like clock work.if we get a west wind the bait sucks in an its garunteed to happen someplace.Wish U where here.........

[capesams]

NIB...b reel happy to export some[alot] of seals to u to take care of that bait problem u guy's have down there.

[piemma]

Originally Posted by Back Beach

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.

Hell, I waited 10 years. There were other nights like that. A place we called 2/10 Hole because it was 2/10s of a mile from the Mission Bell. Flat calm. They were like silver striped ghosts. Nothing breaking and every fish was a 30+ pounder. I think that was August of 93. We drove up from RI to fish 2 tides and then run home. Got there about 2:00 AM and it was still going at dawn. Every cast a brute.

[striprman]

Had a great boat day a couple years ago with my brother at Scorton ledge trolling tube and worm. Definately a blitz.

[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.