#Record bluefish driver

Blues can be tempted on spinning tackle with a huge variety of swimming and popping plugs, soft plastic lures, jigs and live or dead bait. Large blues frequently mix in with the schools of Striped Bass we pursue on the Dragonfly, providing for an exciting multi-species fishing trip. These snapper blues are great fun on ultralight spinning and fly gear, with all of the attitude and appetite of their larger parents in a smaller package. Within the bays, rivers and salt water ponds they are protected from predators and have a readily available food supply of small baitfish. Small Blues 5″-10″(called Snappers) can be found in all of Cape Cod’s estuaries throughout the summer months. We find Bluefish in all of the waters surrounding Cape Cod, including Cape Cod Bay, the Atlantic Ocean from Provincetown south to Nantucket and in Nantucket sound from Monomoy Island west to Martha’s Vineyard. Bluefish deserve a healthy dose of respect when brought on board the boat as they will continue snapping with razor-sharp teeth at anything that moves!! They have amazingly sharp teeth and will streak through schools of bait fish biting indiscriminately and leaving chunks of bait in their wake, earning them the nickname choppers. Feeding frenzies also occur in the waters offshore, with blues encircling schools of bait and then decimating them. Frequently found chasing bait near the shoreline, they will pursue schools of bait right up onto the beach in a frenzy known as a bluefish blitz. In the spring Blues breed and migrate north, following large populations of bait fish including menhaden, mackerel, herring and squid. They spend winters in warmer waters from North Carolina south to the tip of the Florida.

Local lore says that if you tie a bluefish and a striped bass of equal weight tail-to-tail, the bluefish will drag the striped bass from one end of the Cape to the other! Check out our Bluefish Trips and Rates.īluefish are seasonal visitors to Cape Cod waters, usually arriving in mid-June and staying through mid-October. Extremely strong fish, they make repeated, long blistering runs. Bluefish are by far the most acrobatic of our local species, frequently jumping multiple times when hooked on light tackle. The bluefish smash these lures with abandon, striking so fast and hard they frequently miss the lure all together on the first strike but do not fear, they will be back on your popper in an instant! “Top-water” action like this is widely acknowledged to be THE most exciting form of sport fishing. Most of the blues we see in Cape waters are in the 5-15 pound range, but we caught several in the 17 to 20 pound range in 2015 and would love to have you catch a new world record on the boat this year! We are frequently able to catch them casting poppers on the surface. ‘Blues’ grow to a maximum size of 30 pounds (The world record is 31 lbs 12 oz.).

#Record bluefish driver

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The new record is almost 3 pounds larger than the previous record 21.9-pound bluefish, caught in 1980 by Bill Thoroughgood of Rehoboth Beach. The centerpiece is a former destroyer, the USS Arthur W.

The site, known as the Del-Jersey-Land Reef, is one of numerous artificial reefs created by the Division of Fish & Wildlife, which says it is the largest such reef on the Atlantic Coast. Luis Mispireta of Stevensville, Maryland, aboard the Katydid charter boat at Delaware Reef Site 13, about 26 miles off Lewes in the Atlantic Ocean. LEWES, DELAWARE () A 24.8-pound bluefish was caught after it grabbed a black sea bass the angler had already hooked and was reeling in, state officials said today, breaking a 35-year-old record in the Delaware Sport Fishing Tournament. (Photo: Joe Morris, Lewes Harbour Marina, via DNREC) Luis Mispireta holds his record bluefish.