My favorite color fish!!! Thanks for posting. Hope they make it to upper bay en mass.

Mike

 

TF'er T-bone just sent me some pics. He is the Captain of the Stormy Petrel when Goinsfishin (Steve) is not available.

He is still out on the water. But, this is what I know so far.....

They had a rod hit hard. A Virginia angler started to reel in the fish. T-bone said is was a good hard fighting fish. It started leaping out of the water. He knew it wasn't a Rock. They landed the fish....it was a 34 1/4" Bluefish. :eek2::clapping2::high5:

34" is citation size for a Blue. I know I've never handed one out in the 5 years I've had the shop.

Wow! Biggest Blue I've heard up this way in a gazillion years!

Congrats to the lucky Angler (left) and Captain T (right)!

It was caught outside of Deale in 37' of water. It hit a crack-attack. (My friend Andy (TF'er Rockhard) told T-bone about this one). I will find out more about the set-up. It is a umbrella rig tandemed up with another lure. Will post about it later.

T-bone said the Big Blue tore up a 9" white shad. It looks like some of his fellow commie blues been doin' some tail nippin' on this guy.

Figgered y'all would like this one. Wonder if there are more to come???????

Jim

Are you sure that's not a Rudderfish?
Be nice if we had more like that for the summer...

 

Be still my heart. This is about the time we used to get the big blues when rock were in short supplu. Blues do not travel alone, they are a schooling fish so if there is one there are more.

Those that have the 70's and '80's Fishing in Maryland annuals check the citations and you'll see plenty that are caught from mid-May to mid-June.

Time to start plugging the shallows, Thomas PT., Greenbury and Hacketts in the evening and early morning hours. Four feet of water or less.Use those surface plugs and hang on. This is light tackle paradise. This was exactly the reason I became a basitcaster enthusiast. Big blues in shallow water wore my forearm out with spinning gear. But before we get into a pissing match over baitcaster vs. Spinning that's not my point. They are both fun.

 

Nice. It will be good times if Slammer blues come back to our waters. Big bluefish provide for awesome fishing excitement. Great catch.

 

I haven't caught one like that since 1979.

 

That's when I was born, old timer.

 

Now we are going to have to change everything over to metal.......Big Metal !!

 

That is some exciting news for sure. I haven't caught a 12 pounder since 1988. When there is one there is a million! Even my smoker is excited...........Gary

 

I Remember when big blues were the only game in town,a blast on LT , will shred your stuff up though.

Florescent Surgical hoses were the ticket when trolling back in the day for big blues ,big spoons too.

 

Call me crazy but I'm thinking the late Capt. George some how had a hand in that catch.

If it's the only big Blue caught this year - I'll bet more will agree with me.

 

Get out the Tonys and rubber hoses and roll me another one:devil2:. The 70s are back

 

Skip,
I agree, maybe Blues from heaven. Capt. George keeping the Stormy Petrel on good fish.

Had a lot of fun on the boat with Captains George and Steve. T-bone is looking good so far.

The "Stormy" still has her mojo!

Jim

 

Man that's a sweet blue. Be really nice if we had schools of them roaming the bay again.

 

He must have been lost, hope we can get a couple of those this weekend, not the normall dinks!

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Justin Hart
Malibu 12.5 Pro-Explorer

 

Caught a lot of them many years ago. Like rockfish better for eating but these things sure do fight and to get airborne.

 

Come on Capt. George, send some my way too.

TED

 

Thats a nice blue. They were around the OC inlet last week.
Back in the day you could plan your entire trip around slammers....good times.

 

Sure hope that's not the only one that size, I could use some good bluefish trolling this summer. They've been getting bigger every year in mid bay, last summer there were a lot of 26-27" ones about 6lbs and a lot 24" before that so perhaps we'll have some big schools at least 28" this year.

 

Shark bait.

 

wow....what everyone else said. what a lot of fun they were.

 

Wow! Nice bluefish. Last time I caught one like that in the bay was 1984.

 

My favorite fish for sure!

 

Blues

Ill have to break out some of my originally wrapped rag mops and 21 tony's bought back in the 80's from the Pasadena Best Products and the Severna Park Murphy's Mart.
I got so many originally wrapped lures from back then that I have lost count. Big Crippled Elwives too. Dad would buy lures and so did I.
Hoses too.
This is going to be a great season I think!

 

Nice, maybe I will break out the bag of surgical tube eels!

 

they fight so much better than rock fish. Very exciting news. thx

 

I love catching them thangs ! As Gary said, even better in the smoker. Caught these while trolling at CBBT a few years back:

 

I love catching them thangs ! As Gary said, even better in the smoker. Caught these while trolling at CBBT a few years back: View attachment 60310

Was at CBBT one december and the slammers were mixed in with the stripers. It was my favorite trip to CBBT even caught a few on flyrod.

Mike