![]() Spooks and Jumpin Minnows caught all the blues and stripers today. More proof that not even Martha's Vineyard is perfect. This big blue has just clobbered a white popper. The biggest bluefish I'd ever caught, but a week too late to win the derby. But, there was not a single big fish under them and we saw no one land a fish on a menhaden. We found a ton of pogies miles from where we hit the blues. Hussey was fishing at Hatteras Inlet in North Carolina, trolling plastic eels when a gigantic bluefish slammed his line. Interestingly, many fishermen were running all over the Bay today trying to snag or fish with pogies. The world record bluefish was caught on Jan. I'm sure they would have been eaten by the ravenous blues.Īll of our fish today were caught on plugs. There were no small schoolies in this melee. We also landed half a dozen stripers from 22 inches to small keeper size. There were so many blues that when we were reeling one to the boat, there were often four or five following the hooked fish trying to steal the plug from its mouth.Īnd, not only did we get blues. We had all the fish we needed, bass to 40 pounds, along with slammer bluefish. The monster blue described above was caught on a black back Rebel Jumpin Minnow. One of the biggest bluefish I ever caught was my first, trolling wire in. Just about any topwater plug like poppers, Spooks and Jumpin Minnows were blasted by these super aggressive blues in the 8-15 lb. For hours we had a hit or a fish on just about every cast using a topwater plug. We found big blues stacked up in a corner of the Bay. It was unhooked and released so the beast still swims in Gansett Bay. ![]() I would estimate this fish went in the low to mid 20 lb. While this fish bests the state record in length, I don't think it was fat enough to beat the weight. The state record for blues is listed at 39 inches and 26 lbs. You can view it any time, and it's probably even lit up at night. Florida, North Carolina, and New Jersey account for the largest percentage of the recreational bluefish harvest. It's in an outdoor glass case at the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center. In 2021, recreational anglers landed 12.8 million pounds of bluefish, according to the NOAA Fisheries recreational fishing landings database. The fish was caught on July 26, 1974, and is nearly 14 feet long. Today, this part of Canada still sees impressive numbers of big bluefins, the largest in all the world. Landed in October 1979, this 1,496-pound behemoth was hooked while trolling mackerel off Nova Scotia. My brother Steve landed this Mother of All Bluefish, a 40 inch monster on the best day of fishing for blues we have ever had in June. World's Largest Blue Marlin This is the World's Largest Blue Marlin ever caught. Nova Scotia, 1979 This catch by Ken Fraser is still the Grand Daddy of all tuna catches. We've landed some big bluefish over the years from shore and boat, but today yielded the biggest one I have ever seen. This bluefish, the biggest we ever caught, measuredĪ whopping 40 inches.
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