What Is Your Biggest Bluefish?

[labrax]

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.