Quote Originally Posted by bobstefa View Post
Growing up in the NY/NJ area I couldn't wait for the bluefish to show up in the summer. I lived on the Long Island Sound, and in those days (mid 50's to early 60's), we went out of either Sheepshead Bay or Atlantic Highlands to the acid waters for Blues. We fished in the sound for snappers, (baby bluefish) which were a lot of fun. One day, while fishing for Blues I watched how voracious they were eating each other and wondered if we saved the snappers we had caught previously, and used them for bait the next time we went for blues, if it would work. Sure enough we used the snappers and the blues attacked their own kind as readily as the bunkers we were using.
Yeah those blues will eat anything! The craziest thing for me to see was when one guy fishing the sound one afternoon last spring caught a 12lb blue on his clam pole! Before that I didn't think they would touch clams. Welcome and thanks for sharinng the memories of the 50s and 60s that must have been a blast.