Insane Bluefish Blitz Video and more...

[Fish_Eye]

I'm trying an experiment here to see if I can provide you with a High Def look at this content.

Vuse is one of the leading providers of Hi-Def content on the web --- if you follow the link you'll be able to view a quick preview that's vastly superior to the YouTube download with a signficantly better quality download avaliable -- it's not for those of you with dial-up access, it's around 139 MB at www.vuze.com

Let me know what you think of the quality. It looked fairly good to me...full screen high def with only a little raggedness to some of the text I embedded in the frame, otherwise I thought it was pretty cool.


Mike

[MagicWand]

Mike, That was really cool. Are your upcoming videos going to be in high def. like blu-ray.That would be the ultimate.

[spence]

Originally Posted by Fish_Eye

Let me know what you think of the quality. It looked fairly good to me...full screen high def with only a little raggedness to some of the text I embedded in the frame, otherwise I thought it was pretty cool.

Video rez was awsome...picture was jerky, but I'm not sure if that was my machine or how you encoded the video?

-spence

[redcrbbr]

Pretty neat commercial Mike. As always awesome footage.

[leptar]

Originally Posted by Fish_Eye

Everyone

• What was the biggest blitz you've ever seen?
• What species of fish?
• What were they feeding on?
• Where was it?

• 1989 or 1990...From Tiverton's Grinnells beach as far as you could see towards the island, across the river to Portsmouth and up to the bend heading into MT Hope.

• Bluefish mostly and some Squeteague... don't remember any striped ones....

• They were feeding on butterfish

• Sakonnet River

It became stupid fishing... People stopped casting because it was pointless.. bluefish were all over the place and were hitting the lines and anything else that was in the water... A week or 2 later Pogies came down the river and got ambushed... Nannaquaket Pond was a slaughter zone for a couple of weeks.. Monster blues and bass trapped the pogies... After they left it was devoid of fish for a while...

[Blitzseeker]

I saw a bluefish blitz on the back beach at Race Pt a few years ago where the action was about as vigorous as in the video, from right in the first rut out to about 50 yards offshore, about 300 yards long down the beach. When on for about an hour and a half, with the wind whipping staight onshore at about 40 mph. You could, and people did, catch many blues with their bare hands that flopped up on the beach. Most people really did just stop fishing and watch....it was like an episode on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

[MarshCappa]

I really liked that video. Very unique in regards to how your footage is captured.

My best personal blitzes that I have experienced happened in Duxbury. The first occured 2 years ago on the front beach while surfcasting in the Fall. It started out as nothing with not a fish in sight and then out of knowhere someone turned on the jacquzzi jets and the game was on. It was so cool seeing peanuts being chased up on the beach and stripers darting in the tubes of the waves.

The 2nd was this year also in Duxbury but this time the bay side and the whole bay was busting peanuts for hours everywhere I looked. As far as numbers of fish i have never seen anything like this in my life. I was motoring right through them on the whole ride back. Even at the landing there were busting fish. This was in the fall as well.

[Squibby17]

Mike,

I got "stripers gone wild" for Christmas and was very happy with it. Tremendous job I've been meaning to get you that feedback.

This video looks like it may be next on my list.

Biggest blitz,

Boat: Off Chatham, all bluefish very similar to your video. You could hardly fish cause you would keep getting broke off. It was insane.

Beach: Lobsterville in July 04. The herring were all over the place, Stripers, Blues and Fluke just gorging. I've never seen so many bait fish laided up on the shore.

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by leptar

• 1989 or 1990...From Tiverton's Grinnells beach as far as you could see towards the island, across the river to Portsmouth and up to the bend heading into MT Hope.

• Bluefish mostly and some Squeteague... don't remember any striped ones....

• They were feeding on butterfish

• Sakonnet River

It became stupid fishing... People stopped casting because it was pointless.. bluefish were all over the place and were hitting the lines and anything else that was in the water... A week or 2 later Pogies came down the river and got ambushed... Nannaquaket Pond was a slaughter zone for a couple of weeks.. Monster blues and bass trapped the pogies... After they left it was devoid of fish for a while...

It also ran around Common Fence Point.

I was there for that one, that was incredible, the bait was trapped n Nannaquaket and couldn't get out without running the gauntlet. It was just totally unreal