"john" wrote in message
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I sure wish I was down there. I worked there ages ago when they were
dredging the pipeline from NJ to Long Island to Kennedy airport. I was
maintaining all the electronics on the dredge. The tugboat that took me
out to the dredge picked me up at that dock.

With all that bait in the water, a jig would probably stand out a little
more. Bluefish will go after just about anything.

Yeah, I think you could have thrown out a paint stirrer with hooks on it, if
you cast into the school. They are eating machines. I wonder what would
happen if you fell into a school of 12-pound bluefish that were worked into
a frenzy with a chum slick. They almost seem to pile on top of each other
sometimes.

I haven't fished for them from a boat for some years, but that's wild
fishing when they got going. Then you'd bring one over the side, and it
would puke all over you. Bad table manners.

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Ed Huntress