as my birthday present we are going fishing for blues at night. does anyone have a recipe for em or any advice??
How are you going? Party boat, charter, private boat, surf, jetty?
I always found the key to blues is finding the school... ya can almost cast anything into a feeding school and get a hit.... silver and white jigs is what I had fair success with.... or surf plugs. Cut bait will work too, but I never had much success on blues fishing cut bait on the bottom.... mostly jigged it.
I've used 6-10 inch live mullet on the bottom with good success for blues. Use a stinger hook or they will cut off the bottom half of the bait and leave you with nothing. As you probably know, use a wire leader and a wire on the stinger hook as well.
Nelson
125 ft party boat I have been checkin the fish reports of the charters website and they seem to be doing good.
http://www.vitinc.com/nn/chart/jamaica.html
that is where we are going.
Take your swimming suit. With 2,000 HP you will be able to ski behind that one going out and coming back. :wink:
Jerry
well went last night for em. it was different but the trip was kinda ruined because of my father getting seasick. big waves last night pounded us all night. I would have to say 5-6 ft waves. maybe more. roughest that I had ever been on. but the fight of them blues were awesome. really good fights that sometimes resulted in lost fish because the rods we were using had crappy line on it. nicks all up and down the line. but if I could go again I propbaly would. got 12 fillets to bring home and now need cooked. not sure if we are going to do them tonight or tommarow.
Sorry to hear your dad got sick. I'm sure if your anything like Cam you won't let him live it down :innocentwhistle:
I know Cam wouldn't me. :roflmao: So.....when's supper? Those are some good eating :yoyo:
na I have not really given him any grief over it. it kinda ruined the trip because it seems no matter what we do he never catchs kills or has as much fun as us. it is the same thing with pheasants he goes shoots but miss's.
what I should say is it allways seems that both me and my brother allways out fishs and out hunts him. I know that for a father that he still has fun but both my brother and i are starting to get up in age. I just turned 22 and he is 17 so we can fend for ourself. It just makes us both feel like crap when dad shells out money and the only thing he got is sick and we caught a boat load. kinda makes us feel guilty. which I guess is a good thing because we do care about pop and how he is on a trip. we know that he has fun as long as he is not working but it just sucks personally to watch him allways get the short end of the stick.
Getting up in age at 22....................... :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:
Ya killing me with that one. :roflmao:
When you mentioned the waves, I was thinking that I would have been feeding the fish. And not in a good way. :puke:
Jerry
hey awh just because you are a old fart doesn't mean I don't feel older.
Just got a good laugh from your post was all. Didn't mean nothing bad about the remark I made.
Yeah but you have to live your life like a kid so the kids don't wear ya out....LOL
ya I know I did not really take offense. takereasy.