Jetty Park 04/18/09

[Morpheus]

You da man Jetty

[Psycho Magnet]

You da man Jetty

Absolutely. Hey Jetty, do you pay the $5 or whatever it is every time you go in or do you fish a different area there?

[fishnfool73]

Great report those dolphin will chase those blues into the rocks like that.

[fixed80]

I took a good look at your lure selection. the only thing i didn't see was a silver spoon. If you don't have one, buy a sea striker or gator spoon that is 2 to 3 ounces in weight. the spoons do well and have got to be the best arsenal to use. it beats a lot of lures because it is so reflective and all you do is real it in.

[fixed80]

Update= I lost two lures to those stupid bluefish

u kno it to. I lost 2 spoons due to them also. i must of had a foot or 2 leader and all i reeled up was my main line which was 30lb braid. those blues act like they haven't seen food in weeks. well that's just how u can lose a 5 dollar lure in 2 minutes. one cut and there it goes. around last week, i lost a mackerel that was nearly 24,28" long or 4lb to 5. it was just an estimate. this lure was a gotcha, much cheaper than the spoon. so anyway when the macks where feeding on the surface, i cast the gotcha lure, began to twitch it back toward me and wham. the line started peeling instantly and the war was on. the fish pulled hard and i was trying to keep it away from the pilings. along with a few more runs i got it in. then what i did was i brought it over toward an area where someone could reach down and pull the fish out of the water. but by the time a man could get his hands around the leader, pop. there went the fish with the lure in its mouth. perhaps the person should of grabbed the leader first and not the main line which was close to where both were tied together.

[permitchaser]

nice report those big blues dont play games there a lot off fun

[IM CHUMMING]

nice report why do all your lures have 4 eyes? first time seeing that

[TheCigarCritic]

Jettypark, 90% of the time I'm a live bait fisherman, alot like you. The other 10% the time I'm bouncing a bucktail or I'm reeling in a spoon: Stuff that requires little skill. I'm trying understand lures, and over the years I've collected a pretty good amount that I never use, simply because I don't know how to use them. I was hoping you might be able to give me some pointers on how to effectively use them. I'm willing to bring my gear out to jetty park one night if you'd be willing to show me.

Thanks in advance

[bolo]

That purple lure looks like a Wahoo killer. I doubt you will get a Permit to hit a Windcheater. Try to bring some bucktail jigs with those Permit.

[centerpinner]

Amazing thread, great pics. Jettypark, which jetty did you nail all those bluefish at, Fort Pierce?

Am no expert at blues, but I've seen a bluefish blitz in Nags Head in October about 15 years ago when 1000's of blues came up and beached themselves. People were out there with buckets scooping them up. Was told it was the King Mackerel that chased them up onto the beach. Have also heard that bluefish will at times chase the trout or weakfish up onto the beach but haven't seen it.

[Albacized]

Although I now catch blues of that size pretty often since I moved up here to Massachusetts, in the years I lived in Florida and in subsequent visits since, I've never seen a bluefish of that size while fishing down there. Of course most of my FL experience is over on the other coast (Tampa)...but your fish still strikes me as very impressive specimen for that region.

[centerpinner]

On Christmas night in 1993 after my wife had disposed of all of the Christmas wrappings I went out onto the beach on Hutch Isle. It was a full moon or near full moon and I went out with a lantern and a tripod and 2 poles and caught perhaps 30-40 good sized blues. The surf was very calm that night, Initially the moon was very low in the sky and the view of the moon just over the water that night was something to behold. The very biggest blue was maybe slightly larger than the one you show in the picture. I fished for about 5 hours from 9pm to 2am, probably could have caught 100 of them had I been more aggressive and had more bait. In addition to frozen mullet cutbait I was using frozen whole sardines, maybe 4" long, using a straightened paper clip to run a hook eyelet up thru its ass and out its mouth and placing the baited hook on a standard bluefish rig. Many years when I arrived in FL just before Christmas the blues simply weren't there yet. I would turn my attention to Pompano using sand fleas or sometimes live shrimp. But for every Pompano I'd catch there would be 3-4 Atlantic Croakers (which aren't bad) and an equal number of those nuisance gray catfish. But in all the years since I never had anything that remotely approaches the bluefish catch I had that night. I have to believe the full moon had something to do with it.

[TheCigarCritic]

great story. very descriptive.