Interesting Day Fishing on Long Island Sound
On Aug 25, 7:29*pm, JustWait wrote:
On 8/25/2011 7:41 PM, Tim wrote:
On Aug 25, 12:35 pm, *wrote:
"Canuck57" *wrote in ....
On 24/08/2011 5:01 PM, Wayne B wrote:
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:55:16 -0400, John
wrote:
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:34:15 -0400, Wayne
* *wrote:
As some of you may remember, our trip north this year started out with
some fairy decent fishing. *Coming up out of Florida we caught 4 Mahi
Mahis, 1 Tuna, and 1 Bonito. *All decent fish, all good eating as
confirmed by our fillet, fry and release program. *Then we hit a dry
spell and did not catch another fish until July when we caught a
decent sized blue fish in the islands south of Cape Cod. * And then
another long dry spell even though quite a few serious attempts were
made in areas known for both blue fish and stripers, not even a
nibble.
Our luck changed today near Orient Point on the north eastern tip of
Long Island when we hooked up a 30 foot sailboat on two rods
simultaneously. *The sailboat fought valiantly for several minutes
amidst some heated discourse by both boat owners but in the end he
broke off, taking about $30 worth of lures away with him.
It was some sort of omen of things to come however. *Although
discouraged by the breakoff I immediately rerigged both rods and
minutes later we had a strike from a very feisty bluefish just south
of Plum Gut. *Unfortunately he was a bit on the small side resulting
in a donation to Davey Jones. * Ten minutes later we had another
strong bite *from a secong bluefish. * This one got almost to the boat
but *gave one last minute jump and flip which was successful in
throwing the hook. *Close but no cigar.
It looks like we'll be eating out tonight.
You *are* using wire leaders for those blues, right? Would you have eaten
them if you'd landed them?
How would you've fixed 'em?
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My wife is a genius at cooking bluefish. *I filet them, and then she
cuts away all of the dark meat (too oily), and then pan fries the rest
adding some breading, garlic, fresh onion and mint. *It really turns
out very nicely.
Probably a good thing you weren't using braided line, it might have cut
the damn sailboat in half.
I'm assuming you weren't, 'cause you didn't say you sunk the sailboat.
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