Blowfish?
2,096 views·11 replies·by Loonzter
Last year around this time there were sooooo many blowfish in the narrows at Moriches Bay you just couldn't drop a jig with gulp without it getting annihilated immediately. I haven't read any reports of anyone fishing for fluke in Moriches? I was curious if there's any talk of action in the area whether it be fluke, blues, bass or blowfish. My grandson's been chopping at the bit but it hasn't exactly been warm outside yet. Just don't want him to get disappointed if the water's still to cold for any action. Even Birds would be something to knock the cobwebs off. Anyone with his ear to the ground about this area?
Mate200 postsSince 2020
I said I would go for blowfish last year and didn't. In 2019 I caught a couple by accident on fluke jigs while kayak fishing. they are delicious, just like I remembered from the 1970s and early 80s. I usually drift for fluke off the yak but could anchor, although getting them off my rarely used boat should make it easier. Hoping they will take tiny Gulp on small hooks as readily as they strip the tails off my Gulp going for fluke ! IIRC, the blowfish were too small to catch until mid-summer.
CommodoreOriginal Crew7,027 postsSince 2018
I got them off the Kismet dock two summers ago. Used flounder hooks and squid.
Captain4,988 postsSince 2020
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I said I would go for blowfish last year and didn't. In 2019 I caught a couple by accident on fluke jigs while kayak fishing. they are delicious, just like I remembered from the 1970s and early 80s. I usually drift for fluke off the yak but could anchor, although getting them off my rarely used boat should make it easier. Hoping they will take tiny Gulp on small hooks as readily as they strip the tails off my Gulp going for fluke ! IIRC, the blowfish were too small to catch until mid-summer.
I said I would go for blowfish last year and didn't. In 2019 I caught a couple by accident on fluke jigs while kayak fishing. they are delicious, just like I remembered from the 1970s and early 80s. I usually drift for fluke off the yak but could anchor, although getting them off my rarely used boat should make it easier. Hoping they will take tiny Gulp on small hooks as readily as they strip the tails off my Gulp going for fluke ! IIRC, the blowfish were too small to catch until mid-summer.
Mate200 postsSince 2020
I haven't seen a blowfish in forty years. And if you keep hauling them out at 75 a trip I may never get to see one again.It's never good to assume Avenger, my grandson caught every one of those fish, I was to busy baiting his hook. I didn't say we brought all those fish home (even if it was my right to), we brought home only what we wanted to eat. Don't exactly know where your fishing but on the South Shore of Long Island Blowfish are everywhere.
Mate200 postsSince 2020
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