I am a child of the 80's

[Skip]

Brave man going out without donuts

Be interesting to see if Bluefish population rises as Rockfish population declines.

I have fond memories as well of those critters - casting hookless poppers from a boat on surf rods around Hacketts.

Got tired of reeling them in - so took hooks off - just to see them hit popper.

Congrats on getting into them .

[one fish]

wtg fn. I was just tellin someone on my boat the other day about those blues of the 80's. my biggest was 16 lbs while chumming off 86 by myself. walked me all around the boat.

glad u got into them. wow. thx for the memories. ron ps is should get off my lazy arse and get in on that action.

[B-Faithful]

Cool report. A 36" slammer blue makes a 36" rockfish look like a slug. I got one as a kid that went over 18lbs on the scale and I won the youth award in a summer long tournament in NJ. I think I won a Penn reel.

[Joe Walsh]

I would rather catch blues, than rock, but would rather eat rock, than blues, especially the big blues...

Joe

[Rivercat09]

Originally Posted by Skip

Be interesting to see if Bluefish population rises as Rockfish population declines.

If the late 1970's are any indication, I would guess so.