I've made a limited number of attempts this season so far, all with no luck.
The last two weeks of April I was finally able to convince some fish to play.
Found a local spot on the bay with a TON of bait. You could walk across the bunker they were so think. And the small bait looked like swarms of flies under the lights. Crabs from very small to keeper swimming past constantly.
After several attempts at this spot with plugs, I tried bait one evening. Had several blues in the 5-6 range landed and others that bit me off.
Returned a few nights later to get the wife her first of the season. Had several missed hits, run offs and lost fish. As we were losing the tide and getting tired, BAM....rod doubles over and Becky's on with a solid fish. The fish gave a great fight and did numerous acrobatic shows before she got it to the dock. 12.5lb bluefish
. When it got under the lights it was so long I was amazed it didn't have striped sides.
Something interesting from the big blue - It puked in the water right before I grabbed the leader. In the puke, was something that was "glowing", like a light stick. Something organic or did he eat some trash?
