”That description is almost cliché now, but all the stories you’ve heard are true. ”Bluefish are extremely voracious predators,” says Tom Migdalski, who has chased blues and stripers in Long Island Sound for almost 30 years. And any seasoned bluefish angler will likely hold the scars of close encounters as badges of honor. For those who haven’t witnessed it, picture videos you’ve seen of piranha stripping some poor jungle animal to bones ? it’s eerily similar. When blues are on the feed, few sights rival that of the froth they create at the surface. They are easily one of my favorite fish to fish for.” ”They are strong and persistent, like hooking into a big trevally. ”There is no more spectacular fish in our area than a 15- to 20-pound blue,” says Popovics. Well-known fly tier Bob Popovics, who has chased bluefish in the surf of his home waters in New Jersey for years, prefers to fish for slammer blues above most anything else. But ask anyone who does it regularly and they will tell you it’s a small price to pay.
In fact, many maintain that the constant need to replace flies is the one drawback in fishing for blues. Pound for pound, few fish are as voracious as a hungry, slammer-sized bluefish, and none more eager to strike a popper. They also readily take flies, and at times they’ll take almost anything else. While it is certainly true that blues don’t get much bigger than they do in northern waters, they range all along the eastern U.S. Barry And Cathy Beckīluefish are one of those fish that many of us associate strictly with New England waters. Returning the fish to the water should be done as quickly as possible and with as little handling as possible.
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