The Glory Daze,,

[Rip-Plugger]

good gator on my large super rip-runner.

[Rip-Plugger]

same as above.

[Rip-Plugger]

gator on a Gibbs big daddy goo-goo eyes swimmer.

[lostatsea]

Wow seems like you are really into them thick. Nice catching, congrats

[J Barbosa]

Nice, our big bluefish in NJ seem to leave every year around 2-3rd week of June and go offshore to spawn. When do they start clearing out of CT or is this a returning set of fish?

[Rip-Plugger]

Wow seems like you are really into them thick. Nice catching, congrats

they seem to be in the normal pattern now.
they are after bunkers and threadfins now with some 5 inch nutts in there too.

[Rip-Plugger]

Nice, our big bluefish in NJ seem to leave every year around 2-3rd week of June and go offshore to spawn. When do they start clearing out of CT or is this a returning set of fish?

they are actually late this year,normally they show up right before memorial day and hang around all summer if there is food for them.
they don't leave until the water temp hits around 50.

[J Barbosa]

We have an enormous amount of peanut and adult bunker right now but they are only holding the typical 1-4lb summer bluefish we get here.

[Rip-Plugger]

We have an enormous amount of peanut and adult bunker right now but they are only holding the typical 1-4lb summer bluefish we get here.

oh yes,we do too,get one gator @ 14lbs then the next is 2lbs.
still some bass around which is strange since the larger fish are always gone by july 12th or so.
lots of small bass around from like 12-20 inches and they are not vanishing when the gators make their appearances each tide.
normally they are gone when they show up.

[hookedonbass]

That is awesome! in New Jersey the captains say the big blues are offshore because they are spawning now.
I have been reading the reports for the last 2 weeks and all they are catching is Pee-wee blues 1 - 3 pounds. so if they do spawn this time of year, I'm wondering why is it that they haven't left from where you are fishing? Thanks and congrats.

[Rip-Plugger]

That is awesome! in New Jersey the captains say the big blues are offshore because they are spawning now.
I have been reading the reports for the last 2 weeks and all they are catching is Pee-wee blues 1 - 3 pounds. so if they do spawn this time of year, I'm wondering why is it that they haven't left from where you are fishing? Thanks and congrats.

well,I would think that they have spawned already by the time they show up here.
looking at the pix they have no bellies and the bodies are not thick yet.
my best guess is they already did in these parts,also we are inside a huge cove so,they come around Montauk and from Rhody's direction straight into the sound.
I imagine they spawn enroute from outside since they are already in open ocean/water.

[Rip-Plugger]

gator on an old school styled rip-runner.

[Rip-Plugger]

gator on my 10 inch roundnoser.

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gator on my 9 inch blind hound dog.

[jigfreak]

we have to start coming up with some more nicknames for you. I think "Gator Slayer" should be one of them. Way to go Sir.

[Rip-Plugger]

we have to start coming up with some more nicknames for you. I think "Gator Slayer" should be one of them. Way to go Sir.

I could live with that!
TY.

[Rip-Plugger]

for 6 years I was in a bad way with solid white plugs.
I could not catch a fish with one,not even a touch.
smashed all that last night with a gator on my 9 inch rip-runner,,,yes in solid white.

[cowherder]

^^ Nice, maybe because of the full moon?

[Rip-Plugger]

^^ Nice, maybe because of the full moon?

I have fish it during all periods just never got a fish to even boil behind it.
even when the fish were smashing bait,they would not look at it.as soon as I switched plugs,it would hit the water and a fish would slam it.
it actually made me shy away from making any white plugs.
I even had another large swimmer that was all white,I repainted it grey with brown top,you can see it in the yapper of a gator a couple of post ago.
they never looked at that one either.

[J Barbosa]

I love white