The boat has caught five large blues (30+", 12-15 lbs) so far while targeting Striped Bass. They are a good fight. I am not allowed to tell you where I was, but I was on the water in a boat. I was using lures that I believe target bass, both sinking and surface lures. Any more specific and it might be some kind of burning. Seems about the same number of blues as I normally get. They tear the crap out of tackle. I fish on Shimano reels 4000 series of spheros, sahara, and saragossa, with medium/light duty poles. I use 20 lb braid and a 50 lb mono leader. Blues really tear the leaders up.
Blues are around and catchable. They make good tuna bait. I like them smoked.
We took some guys out June 5th and got this pic. Pat's arm got sore from fighting it on LT. I threw back 2 big ones with no pics, and my brother threw back one.
Here is the one my brother kept.
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