What Is Your Biggest Bluefish? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

afterhours · 09-24-2006, 02:36 PM

dang thing looked like a tuna! fattest blue i've ever seen.

justplugit · 09-24-2006, 02:41 PM

#23 many moons ago. Scales were as big as your thumb nail.

Boat caught, on an umbrella rig, doesn't count.

BigFish · 09-24-2006, 02:43 PM

I can't imagine a blue over 20 pounds!!! The Ma. state record is 28 and that must have been a hell of a fish!!! 23 pounds must have been a frightening sight coming over the side?

MAC · 09-24-2006, 02:45 PM

21# 6oz

BigFish · 09-24-2006, 02:46 PM

On a plug MAC?

MAC · 09-24-2006, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by BigFish

On a plug MAC?

yes, but it was approx 23 years ago and the plug was an Atom.
Caught in Plymouth. Not a really big deal as there were a lot of them around back then when you could hardily buy a Striper

MAC · 09-24-2006, 02:56 PM

That was back in my white bucket days. Didn't own a surfbag so had V notches cut in the top of a bucket to keep the lures seperated.

labrax · 09-24-2006, 03:08 PM

Two years ago we were catching lots of 12-14lb blues in a slot off of Chatham on 9 & 10 wt fly rods and 7-8 spinning rods, so that is my biggest. We would dump the fast sinking lines over the side of the boat, or drop a 1.5 oz jig with a pork trailer and hope that we got past the dogfish. We would slowly strip in the fly line, or work the jig slowly up and bam. Big sand eel imitations were the ticket for the fly rod. They fight very well and were a blast.

About 10 yrs ago a friend of mine landed a 38" bluefish on his 9wt - the thing was a monster, and what a fight from the Falmouth jetty he was on. He tailed it and we just sat there looking at it in amazement. No scale, or Boga then - he took the girth and length and revived it and let it go. It was like a whole size class larger than anything I have seen since.

justplugit · 09-24-2006, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by BigFish

I can't imagine a blue over 20 pounds!!! The Ma. state record is 28 and that must have been a hell of a fish!!! 23 pounds must have been a frightening sight coming over the side?

Ya Larry, that was a one of a kind day, trolling rubba umbrella on LI Sound in October, in the 60's ,and hit a school with notin under#18.

Even Clammah would have luved it.

BigFish · 09-24-2006, 02:55 PM

I know you guys down in Jersey see large blues all the time what with all the big bunker down there! Occasionally we will get a run of blues to 20 pounds but not often....I missed a school of 20's blitzing the Race 2 seasons ago by a tide!!!!

Karl F · 09-24-2006, 02:59 PM

18# on a 2 ounce Kastmaster middle of the day, one of them non stop backside blufish blitzes.. all big blues, we lost count how many we took.. there were bigger ones caught by others..all on tin.
what a mess.. one chatham guy had us saving them.. we had a fillet party and he took them to the smokehouse.. i pity the camp owner whose porch we messed up.. his buddy said, when asked how we gonna clean this place.. "Oh.. it will prolly rain sometime before the weekend".. it didn't..