Your Best Blitz Experience?

[Sweetwater]

September 2001: I was fishing in the north cape area (is that broad enough?) from a friend's boat late in the afternoon. The water was flat calm and there were bazillioins of peanut bunker everywhere. I was on my cellphone when the water by the boat began to boil. I told the person on the phone to "listen to this!" I held the phone out toward the blitz and he said it sounded like "a torrential rain storm." But no, it was a massive blitz that covered well over an acre of water.

All three of us aboard threw poppers and immediatiatly and we had triples. I was surprised to find that the blitz was not blue fish, but stripers in the 26 to 32 inch range, and they were ravenous.

In the excitment, the boat owner dropped his rod overboard (somehow he missed the rod holder on the gunwale completely), in about 18 to 20 feet of water. Next thing I know, he jumps overboard (fully clothed except for shoes) and is diving for his gear. He is swimmng right in the middle of the blitz, with 8 to 15 pound stripers slashing into bunker, and me still wizzing a Gibbs popper right by his head and catching fish.

Upon resurfacing after several dive attempts, he climbed back on board and reported that there were even larger fish /under/ the boil that swam right past him as he searched for his rod and reel. Evidently the drift was too fast and we couldn't get back on the spot.

[Squibby17]

HA good story.

Last year in July on the vineyard I was down island with my family. I was with my two sisters and their boy friends and figured I would just throw a few casts seeing it was hot and July and the fishing would prob be slow.

Well we get to the beach and there are herring all over the beach, and fish just furiously pounding them against the shore line. We only had two rods so we had to take turns. Anyway between the five of us we caught 10 blue fish the largest was 16 lbs and 15 stripers up to 36 inches, and three fluke!!! It was so cool seeing the fish two feet off the beach with the fluke swimming right with the blue fish and stripers.

At one point our white bomber broke off and before I know it, my sister swims right threw the fish to get it, about 50 feet off shore. My other sister is walking the beach and throwing all the herring back into the water!! It goes to show, sometimes the best fishing is when you are completely unprepared at the wrong time of year, wrong time of day, with the wrong people!!!

[Striperhound]

Several years ago on the Saturday of Columbus day weekend a friend and I hit a sun up to sun down blitz on a Long Island beach. The surf was light we saw many sights this day. At times 20 lb bluefish were chasing 5-8 lb bass and weakfish right up onto the beach. Many times that day a wave would crest and dump hundreds of big weakfish onto the sand with these monster blues in hot pursuit. We spent some of the morning putting the fish back into the water that got stranded high and dry. We caught small keeper bass and for the most part monster blues. My biggest blue came out of this blitz at 22 lbs. This fish swallowed a 3 oz pencil popper all the way down with only 1" of the plug still showing like a cigar. My muscle ached for 3 days after that blitz.