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Submitted By: marfar210
Date Submitted: 2009-10-19 11:59:00
The Big Fish Story: Well the fall striper run is poised and ready to go...but when is the question. The surf was down and getting the kayak out wouldn't be a big deal..coming back in with the rising tide might be a different story though. Once out through the surf I put out to rods to paddle troll, 1- was an 8' casting rod with an okuma level wind reel loaded with 20lb test and trolled a 5" yozuri floater diver, I ran that from the back of the yak with the rear rod holders, the other rod was a 5' ultra lite with 8lb trilene and a small lite shakesphere spinning reel and that went into the fron scotty holder, and trolled an 1oz Ava jig tipped with Gulp sandeel 4". Once out and on the troll I was in about 20' of water and was looking at the amazing amount of bait in the water, sandeels, spearing, mullet and bunker. Just as I was wondering how the fish were going to notice my baits with all the competition I saw on my fishfiner (Humminbird) a school of bait fish near the bottom and what appeared to big bigger fish below them, I stopped my paddling and let the ava sink to the bottom and when it did a I paddled fast trying to bring the lure through the bait and then WHAM the small 5' rod nearly broke in half it bent into the deepest U, I had a hard time getting the rod out of the holder but when I did the fight was on. To make matters worse the back reel start screaming off anoth big fish on, but I had to ignore the reel screaming because of the fish I was fighting holding the rod on the butt and above the connection point so it would not break. Finally the rear fish got off as the one I had on started pulling me into the surf zone I had to wrestle the fish (very carefully) to get him to go the other way, which he finally did. So after 35mins with this fish I finally got him to my Boga and into the kayak. This little reel worked flawlessley the drag never stopped working even when the fish gave sudden bursts of speed and power. I caught one more in this fashion and called it a day. Anyone who has ever caught bluefish knows their power and fight and nothing beats this experience then with lite line, small tackle and a kayak

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Where'd you catch it: NJ | USA
Category: InShore Saltwater | Species: bluefish
How big was that lunker: 34 Inches | 10 lbs. oz.
That Hawg was bite'n on:
What string were you runnin: Monofilament
What reel were you crankin: Baitcast
Caught it on:
Comment By:somefishinfool
Nice Fish! Castin 5 MERRY Bobbers at ya, for Dec. 09 Thanks for the votes & comments. Take Care Tight Lines & FISH ON!
Comment By:Squirrel
nice fish come back and give me a 5 heres you a 5
Comment By:somefishinfool
Nice Fish! Casting 5 Bobbers at ya 4 Nov! Thanks for the votes & comments. Take Care, Tight Lines & FISH ON!
Comment By:remington870
i'm not a big fan of the blue fish, how do you cook your blue fish?
Comment By:riverrat04
Congrats on the nice catch and thanks for the votes here's 5
Comment By:ri fisherman
I live in rhode island and ive had battles with the blues many times. That must have been a blast reeling them in on light tackle in a kayak! FIVE BOBBERS
Comment By:shmikeynyc
NICE FISH !!! heres 5 for ya,come lookat my blackfish and let me know if you like
Comment By:Bass Lesson 102
Very nice sir!!! 5/5
Comment By:jignpig
excellent job! definite 5 your efforts. just so you know, the bait in my pic is a castaic catch 22 swimbait. they make several models, not just trout. and i think they'd do fine in salt. i have a couple and i really like mine. you can check 'em out several places online. good luck.
Comment By:2lucky
nice blues I've often thought about using a kayak to fish the shoal section of the Savannah below Augusta Ga. It's not accessible by boat and I'm sure has monster largemouth and stripers. 5/5
Comment By:mcnew01
5 for OCT can u please vote for Moms Snapper pic in the Inshore CAT
Comment By:mackjill
Great story!
Comment By:str29273
Hey, sounds like a whale of a time. These are some big fish to be caught on light tackle like that. You must have some brass ones bro...........good fishing!!!!
Comment By:FishingFool1
Nice catch and story heres 5 for ya
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