As Big as they Get!

 

They just don't get much bigger
than this alligator blue landed 
from the kayak today.
You have to look around to find
them.  Most likely they are around
schools of large bait.

The epic action for monster bluefish just continues in Narragansett Bay.  The last two evenings I caught them from the shore.  Today I got them from the kayak.  Wherever you can find bait, you most likely will find bluefish. And, the bigger the bait, the larger the blues.

Today I found large amounts of big peanut bunker, those 4 to 5 inch ones.  They were being blasted by large bluefish as well as stripers.  When this happens that Rebel Jumpin' Minnow is a dead ringer for this baitfish.  And, it worked to perfection today landing big numbers of stripers from schoolies to small slots and good numbers of huge bluefish up to 18 lbs.

This has been a strange year of fishing in the Bay. We've had good numbers of big bluefish but the large stripers (over 40 inches) have been scarce.  That's because we don't have large schools of adult menhaden all over the place like we had the last two years. However, the peanut bunker is abundant in spots (not everywhere and they move around).  Find that bait and you are likely to find big bluefish and stripers up to slot size.