Your Best Blitz Experience? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Rappin Mikey · 07-03-2005, 07:25 AM

Cool story! Nice pics!

piemma · 07-03-2005, 08:31 AM

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 · 07-03-2005, 09:13 AM

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 · 07-03-2005, 09:32 AM

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 · 07-03-2005, 09:33 AM

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 · 07-03-2005, 12:20 PM

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 · 07-03-2005, 01:33 PM

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

Karl F · 07-03-2005, 04:28 PM

I was hopin' ya'd tell us about the "whale blitz"

Slingah · 07-03-2005, 09:57 AM

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 · 07-03-2005, 11:28 AM

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 · 07-03-2005, 11:35 AM

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 · 07-03-2005, 05:20 PM

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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 · 07-04-2005, 06:02 AM

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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 · 07-04-2005, 07:58 AM

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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 · 07-04-2005, 08:08 AM

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.

NIB · 07-04-2005, 08:25 AM

Actually we have some sandeels around.A diver told me there was a large pod around one of the jetty's weeks ago.hey seem to be holding some small fish around but the larger bass are all on the bunker.Was out in the boat the last 2 mornings because i had afternoon barbeques to attend.the bait is there but the fish would not co-operate.i knew it would be a late afternoon bite an was right.As I talked to some who got em.It's amazing it feels like the complaceny is setting in.Its really nothing to snag a bait an get a 30 when they are feeding.One 2 hr span I had 15 fish 25-35 lbs. I almost feel ashamed to catch these majestic warriors in such a ridiculously easy fashion.I crack up with disgust when i see the pics in the papers an the fish rags of these JO's holdin up 30 lbers that they are so proud of.5 yrs ago a twenty was a decent fish u had to work ur ass off to get a 30.now anyone wit a boat has got a 30.its a joke.An some out there (boaters) still don't get it.

Sweetwater · 07-04-2005, 12:34 PM

September 2001: I was fishing in the north cape area (is that broad enough?) from a friend's boat late in the afternoon. The water was flat calm and there were bazillioins of peanut bunker everywhere. I was on my cellphone when the water by the boat began to boil. I told the person on the phone to "listen to this!" I held the phone out toward the blitz and he said it sounded like "a torrential rain storm." But no, it was a massive blitz that covered well over an acre of water.

All three of us aboard threw poppers and immediatiatly and we had triples. I was surprised to find that the blitz was not blue fish, but stripers in the 26 to 32 inch range, and they were ravenous.

In the excitment, the boat owner dropped his rod overboard (somehow he missed the rod holder on the gunwale completely), in about 18 to 20 feet of water. Next thing I know, he jumps overboard (fully clothed except for shoes) and is diving for his gear. He is swimmng right in the middle of the blitz, with 8 to 15 pound stripers slashing into bunker, and me still wizzing a Gibbs popper right by his head and catching fish.

Upon resurfacing after several dive attempts, he climbed back on board and reported that there were even larger fish /under/ the boil that swam right past him as he searched for his rod and reel. Evidently the drift was too fast and we couldn't get back on the spot.

fishweewee · 07-05-2005, 11:41 AM

Multiply the Bomba photo about ten-thousand fold, throw in a few hundred thousand birds, and you have Montauk in early October 2000. Fish on every cast of a diamond jig.

HESH2 · 07-06-2005, 07:00 AM

On cape cod few years back after hurricane Felix.Fished nauset lite beach morn and late afternoon tides,daylite hours.stripers were in surf line as far as you could see for 3 days straight morn and nite tides.every cast had fish on and walked beach with moving schools towards Marconi.all fish stripers only had 1 blue in 3 days.by 3rd days walking beach following schools ended crashing on beach worn out.catched and released all,see every am drag marks in sand and scales on stairs leading to parking lot where big stripers were dragged.i remember it was also during commerical season.it was like your were on espn and had died and gone to striper heaven.

piemma · 07-05-2005, 02:28 PM

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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 · 07-05-2005, 03:27 PM

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

Back Beach · 07-04-2005, 06:00 AM

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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.