Bluefish 2018!!!!!!

[fishinmission78]

Island beach. All the blues you want.

[buckethead]

Haven't caught any big ones yet on my stretch of beach. Hopefully that will change after this weekend.

[hookset]

Got some bigger ones to 11pounds on saturday night. sunday with the rain they were smaller, a few cocktail size.

[bababooey]

Appears they are back! hmmmm, cat food for Monty's cats.
After some lean years of ocean spring bluefishing, we’re finally seeing some old-fashioned action with large choppers. The Shore party boat fleet had been happy when small blues showed up for jigging after a terrible spring striper run in the ocean, but they’re now into blues of a size we haven’t been seeing much of until the fall in recent years.
The Golden Eagle reported that those blues were once again up on the surface chasing bunkers today, and they ranged up to 17 pounds. The action was on jigs, and many of those fish are lost by anglers who haven’t been hooking such sizes in a long time.
The Jamaica from Brielle was into that fishing yesterday as Abdullah Samardeen of Philadelphia took the pool with an 18-pounder.

[Monty]

Appears they are back! hmmmm, cat food for Monty's cats.
[FONT="]After some lean years of ocean spring bluefishing, we’re finally seeing some old-fashioned action with large choppers. The Shore party boat fleet had been happy when small blues showed up for jigging after a terrible spring striper run in the ocean, but they’re now into blues of a size we haven’t been seeing much of until the fall in recent years.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The Golden Eagle reported that those blues were once again up on the surface chasing bunkers today, and they ranged up to 17 pounds. The action was on jigs, and many of those fish are lost by anglers who haven’t been hooking such sizes in a long time.[/FONT]
The Jamaica from Brielle was into that fishing yesterday as Abdullah Samardeen of Philadelphia took the pool with an 18-pounder.

They are still out on the Island in the surf (from this AM).
I have not caught a lot of blues this year, way down from previous years, been fishing different areas, (Bass count up, Blues count down). But most have been 30 inches or larger and have been FUN.
My cats would not touch Blues. Storminsteve knows they only go for that high end cat food (Big on Blue Fin Tuna)