Your Best Blitz Experience?

[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.

[NIB]

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.

[ThrowingTimber]

I remember that day Eben. That was actually on your birfday if I recall correctly

most memorable was 2002 fishing with the almost mrs.'s dad (I learned TONS from fishing with him) We had fish (I hope its ok to note the locations, mods delete if necesary) from the champ.. rock area, well past little league, we lost the school for a bit but it later surfaced around league itself, from there we had them around old ant.., but lost them around the gong or whatever that structure is called. The fish were'nt all massive but its the most fish I'd seen ever come over a rail. I remember I took 5 mins for a cig and a new castle and Jim looks over and says "what ya cant fish and drink a beer at the same time?" It was one of those morning where, we didnt know whether we should go or not becuase we had to hose and scrape the ice off the boat before we headed out that morning. (this one didnt count boat fishin)

Then there was the time the pogies, were beaching themselves in np, Flav and I jumped in and were catchin with our hands as they were trying to make it through this lil cut between a boulder thats infamous for trappin folks at high tide and the boulders that make up the terra firma. we took a few fish and piece and live lined them that was a good evening/morning as well as sun was just about to set. Drove by that area this morning around 3am this morning and its been built up pretty bad... 1993

[basswipe]

Last Monday's blitz I encountered comes to mind.Bluefish pushing thousands
of juvenile herring up onto the beach.
And then when it was getting dark everything settles down and gets real quiet and all you see are the tons of dead and dying herring floundering in the water.Then I start seeing the swirls and boils of the bass as they start picking up on them.I caught quite a few 8-10# bass and many blues.

I can also recall a massive blitz of 15-20# bluefish back in '86 right before I left for basic training.Some even went 20+lbs.I remember it was COLD too.I never saw so many broken rods and gear stripped reels before.I still have the rod and reel I used that day.
I can remember my buddy Al catching a 20lber on a foil Combo's wrapper after he lost his Atom popper.Other guys were just picking up the huge pogies that were all over the place and sticking them on a hook.It really didn't matter what you were using,if it had a hook on it and you could cast it 10ft you caught a fish.

[Sweetwater]

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.

[Squibby17]

HA good story.

Last year in July on the vineyard I was down island with my family. I was with my two sisters and their boy friends and figured I would just throw a few casts seeing it was hot and July and the fishing would prob be slow.

Well we get to the beach and there are herring all over the beach, and fish just furiously pounding them against the shore line. We only had two rods so we had to take turns. Anyway between the five of us we caught 10 blue fish the largest was 16 lbs and 15 stripers up to 36 inches, and three fluke!!! It was so cool seeing the fish two feet off the beach with the fluke swimming right with the blue fish and stripers.

At one point our white bomber broke off and before I know it, my sister swims right threw the fish to get it, about 50 feet off shore. My other sister is walking the beach and throwing all the herring back into the water!! It goes to show, sometimes the best fishing is when you are completely unprepared at the wrong time of year, wrong time of day, with the wrong people!!!

[Striperhound]

Several years ago on the Saturday of Columbus day weekend a friend and I hit a sun up to sun down blitz on a Long Island beach. The surf was light we saw many sights this day. At times 20 lb bluefish were chasing 5-8 lb bass and weakfish right up onto the beach. Many times that day a wave would crest and dump hundreds of big weakfish onto the sand with these monster blues in hot pursuit. We spent some of the morning putting the fish back into the water that got stranded high and dry. We caught small keeper bass and for the most part monster blues. My biggest blue came out of this blitz at 22 lbs. This fish swallowed a 3 oz pencil popper all the way down with only 1" of the plug still showing like a cigar. My muscle ached for 3 days after that blitz.

[fishweewee]

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.

[Peter Lajoie]

Take mikes photo and throw in some 30 and 40 pounders same exact spot only in october....lasted from 11am until about 630 7 pm storm moved in and fished pushed off the beach....

[UserRemoved1]

Last year....late May...in a cove on one of the Elizabeth Islands....me and Bigcat running along in the boat....I spot 3 gulls laying down on the water in the cove as we're running past...nothing else. I said wth let's go in and snoop around-I always stop for birds like that...

We slowly motor into the cove....8' of water...I throw an olive/white popper...as soon as it landed on the water you woulda thought someone threw a freakin bomb, the water just absolutely ERUPTED with fish....ACRES AND ACRES of bass started rolling on top. OVER 5 hours until the tide changed we had 15-25 lbs bass on poppers. My freakin arm still hurts from that day

Not another boat drove by all day.

I don't think I've EVER had so much fun. Every time the tide would push us out and we would see less fish I'd motor back into the skinny stuff and we'd be back into fish.

[Sweetwater]

Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&

Last year....late May...in a cove on one of the Elizabeth Islands

"A cove"? Like Tarpaulin? how many coves are there?....spot burner!

Just kidding Salty...by the way, I got some needle fish from you and they PRODUCE! Nice plugs!

[bassmaster]

no spot burning the cove is setting ancor next to the rock to the s by the light and chumming in the bass
or going way up inside amolst the middle of the bay and casting to shore
but the rip as you leave is better at times

[Backbeach Jake]

Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&

Last year....late May...in a cove on one of the Elizabeth Islands....me and Bigcat running along in the boat....I spot 3 gulls laying down on the water in the cove as we're running past...nothing else. I said wth let's go in and snoop around-I always stop for birds like that...

We slowly motor into the cove....8' of water...I throw an olive/white popper...as soon as it landed on the water you woulda thought someone threw a freakin bomb, the water just absolutely ERUPTED with fish....ACRES AND ACRES of bass started rolling on top. OVER 5 hours until the tide changed we had 15-25 lbs bass on poppers. My freakin arm still hurts from that day

Not another boat drove by all day.

I don't think I've EVER had so much fun. Every time the tide would push us out and we would see less fish I'd motor back into the skinny stuff and we'd be back into fish.

How much for that popper?

[UserRemoved1]

NOT Tarpaulin....wrong island....and you gotta look at more charts there's dozens of coves


BBJ $9.00

[bassmaster]

Originally Posted by Peter Lajoie

Take mikes photo and throw in some 30 and 40 pounders same exact spot only in october....lasted from 11am until about 630 7 pm storm moved in and fished pushed off the beach....

2003

[NIB]

03',04,05 Welcome to Asbury Park,NJ

[HESH2]

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.

[likwid]

Dozens?

Pfft
More than that.

Beware submerged lobster buoys.

[Got Stripers]

By shore, late 80's Peggoty Beach in Scituate, high noon I damn near died when I pulled up to eat my sub at my lunch break. The entire cove was white water and everywhere you looked there were jumbo bunker trying to immitate a flying fish and for good reason. It was a bass over 25 lbs or a blue over 12 every cast until I couldn't physically catch any more, all on atom poppers. I've got a 42 lber over my head from the day and I caught probably a dozen pushing that mark, and dropped one I think was high 50's maybe even 60+ at my feet. It was the most incredible fishing blitz I've ever seen and only one other %$%$%$%$ eating grin wearing angler present to share it with me. I did call a friend after leaving the still on going blitz and he worked it for a couple more hours.

By boat, about 3-4 years back, Strawberry Cove off Cohasset mass, alternating with another un-named cove in Hull (John R knows were), two bitzes on the same day on bunker trapped in both coves by two separate large schools of 15-20lb fish. Every cast was a keeper, not 30-40 lbers mind you, but when you tally 100 keepers in day between you and your partner, that's one hell of a day. All came on 5-1/2" ledgerunners in smoke/glitter, the perfect match for the 3-4 inch bunker both schools had trapped in those coves.

When I'm old and feeble, there well still be a few memories I've not lost, these two will be among them.