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I need to know the best lures and the best line and rods and reels. to reel in big blue fish. the setup i'm using right now is losing all of the 10 pound plus ones and i'm just using a simple gotcha anything can help thanks. Tight lines

Hard to beat a 1 oz - 3 oz. silver spoon for them. Reel it fast on the top to help avoid cut offs besides so much more fun to watch them blast something on top. A weighed Zara Spook is another fun choice. You didn't say where you are fishing so rod and reel is tough to givee you. From the beach an 8 - 9 ft rod with a medium spinner with 15 - 20 lb mono should be fine. From a pier a shorter 7 - 9 ft rod is fine medium action rated for 1 - 3 oz lures same reel 8000 class spinner is fine. I prefer mono leader 50 or 60 but some #5 wire or cable works as well.

Can't add much more then the comments from FF. I like using spoons too but my favorites are top water poppers, spooks- Heddon makes a torpedo top water lure and allot of the Heddon series is under $10. These are weighted top water for walk the dog and run the gauntlet when reeling through a school of blue fish. I usually take the mid-body treble off and leave the rear treble. You can get just as many hookups with this setup and you will find that one treble is easier to remove and reduces the chances that you end up hooked yourself. Personal preference, but you can try it either way.

I'm Fishing juno pier right now i just set up a 9 foot rod medium test light tip and a 4 ounce spoon 50 pound test mono leader and a shimano 4500 bait runner with 25 pound mono main line i just bought a heddon lucky 13 big topwater lure will that work from juno pier?

To add what other have mentioned, another way of getting them is to catch someones followers. When someone brings a blue in, you can throw a jig near it and you'll usually hook up. Be careful not to tangle with the other person or cast over them though...

JordanConnorSharp wrote:To add what other have mentioned, another way of getting them is to catch someones followers. When someone brings a blue in, you can throw a jig near it and you'll usually hook up. Be careful not to tangle with the other person or cast over them though...

what kind of jigs i just got 50 new lures for free from my buddies dad but i need to know which ones to use. most are mirro lures and crank baits

i have always known them to eat anything that moves once the school starts to feed. i throw junk lures at them like plastic shrimp tails and other jig type tails. seeing them blast the top would be much better though.
i have never caught one any where near 10 lbs but the smaller ones do take their toll on line quickly.
caught a 2 ponder the other night on a piece of mullet.

Green Tide wrote:i have always known them to eat anything that moves once the school starts to feed. i throw junk lures at them like plastic shrimp tails and other jig type tails. seeing them blast the top would be much better though.
i have never caught one any where near 10 lbs but the smaller ones do take their toll on line quickly.
caught a 2 ponder the other night on a piece of mullet.

ya after my buddy caught a 9 pounder on a big cobe rod and a big spoon because he could throw it far behind the spool i have decided to ditch my light ugly stick haha. any more tips?

Anyone got some ideas on big blue fish lures other than spoons mine just broke when i was fisxing the treble hooks some how the crank part of it broke off. it was a 6 inch rebel crank.

I have found that an economical and effective way is to use a bubble float rigged with a 3 to 4" cut McDonald's soda straw - with good size treble hook. (An age-old method for Spanish Macks.) Use 4' 40/50 lb test leader between float and straw. You can cast a mile with this rig and save lots of $s; i.e., if/when the blues tear up the straw, you can simply slip a new one down the leader (assuming you connect main line to leader with snap swivel on main and barrel swivel on the leader.) Burn this rig thru the school and hold on.

tom222 wrote:I have found that an economical and effective way is to use a bubble float rigged with a 3 to 4" cut McDonald's soda straw - with good size treble hook. (An age-old method for Spanish Macks.) Use 4' 40/50 lb test leader between float and straw. You can cast a mile with this rig and save lots of $s; i.e., if/when the blues tear up the straw, you can simply slip a new one down the leader (assuming you connect main line to leader with snap swivel on main and barrel swivel on the leader.) Burn this rig thru the school and hold on.

thats a pretty cool rig setup instead of the mcdonalds straw would one of the surgical tube lures about 4 inches long work?

Yes.

I actually use a light weight got-cha sometimes instead of the straw - IF I want the jig to go deep. (The straw stays up close to the surface.)

The float serves as a surface attractant as well as a way to cast far. Cheap too.

Straws with trebles work and just about anything that runs on top water and splashes or rattles will attract bluefish. Followers are a trick to be aware of. I have a Heddon 5" top water with only the back treble in and I attract and hook up if they are there. I have also used oversized 7" pencil top waters which are good for kings and I have landed bluefish on them. The Mcdonalds straw trick is old and works so do diamond jigs, diamonds give you more yards on the cast too. Keep them high in the water on retrieve and slow your retrieve to a jigging motion when the blues start to surround your jig. Blues are allot of fun and some people stand by their preference to eat them.

here is what we use at sebastian inlet , we catch the blues for the other people so they can limit out faster and then they pack up and go home so we can get to the better fish .

but we use 7 foot penn surf rod heavey action , 30 lb braid , and these



4 oz spoon with 12 inch wire leaders we have caught thousands of them

Thanks im buying some of those

Nothing like a nice pencil popper....

I grew up along the Jersey shore and we used to catch them with those pencil lures hands down!! we would also tie a red or white feather and it would help as well. Also in Perth Amboy NJ we used a weird float rig that had a swivel and a floating wooden bobber...im guessing the weight was about 2-3 ounces...it was painted red and white. Then it had a long mono coming out from the other end about 4' then it was attached to a thin white tube lure. This thing worked in the bays when the little blues or "Snappers" were in. We could fill a 5 gallon bucket in 1 hour with blues that were under 1#.

Ask any person from NJ/NYC and they can tell you stories about "Gorilla Blues" I wish they would get as big as them here in Miami. The drift boats up there would also chum the water red with cut up butterfish/glass minnows and menhaden pieces. When the bluefish are around that big...the water boils with them. Almost anything that you can throw in when they are ravaging like that will work.

AL

when the big bluefish showed up around January, I went to anglers bait & tackle and bough a whole bonita, then went to my friends house in pompano beach and fished off the beach that evening with the temperature in the high 40's!! it sure was cold, I sliced up the bonita in small chunks and hooked them on a basic fishfinder rig with a 2 foot wire leader. bonita worked great due to its smell and oils which drove the bluefish nuts haha. These were the 2 biggest bluefish I got that night, boy did they taste great!!