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| I've landed good numbers of bluefish this week in the Bay where the water has been fishable. |
n the last few days it has been way too rough and dangerous for me to fish the oceanfront. But, I haven't missed a day as I turned to my ace in the hole when the oceanfront is unfishable. The waters from the mid Bay to the upper Bay have been calm, clean and fishable in all this roughness. I've been fishing up a storm in this area where it has been LOADED with huge schools of peanut bunker. That has attracted good numbers of small bluefish and occasional stripers. At times this week, I have seen numbers of bluefish just blasting through the peanut bunker as if they were on an October binge. I've been getting my fish on bucktail jigs, paddle tails and Rebel Jumpin Minnows.
Between the bait and the cooling water temperatures, it has caused the fish to become much more active. A hint of fall is in the air and hopefully a sign of things to come.
