The area between Quonset, Hope Island and Jamestown exploded with the largest schools of bluefish we have seen in the Bay for some time. On a charter last Sunday, we hooked up with 14 bluefish with striped bass mixed in on the surface.
Striped bass, bluefish and false albacore. Keep the caught and cleaned fish in an ice and saltwater brine solution in a cooler for the remainder of your trip. Take care of the fish once it is on board it is hard to unhook a fish, clean what it coughs up and wash away the blood while others are fishing. The fish were in the mid- to lower portion of the East and West Passages of Narragansett Bay, north and south of Gould and Hope islands, off Quonset, Jamestown and many other places.Īll the fish were chasing good size peanut bunger (immature Atlantic Menhaden). They were coughing them up when brought on deck. Bluefish eat 2½ times their weight every day, so it seems like they never stop feeding. Most of the bluefish were caught on the surface during blitzes, or feeding frenzies, when fish push and trap bait close to shore or up on the surface where the bait has nowhere else to go. One has to wonder if this is a sign that the stock is rebounding. This week, we caught fish in schools from 18 inches to 30 inches. The updated stock assessment incorporated data through 2019. (This is for skipjacks, too, which are immature bluefish.) The three-fish limit was imposed as the 2021 stock assessment conducted by NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center indicated bluefish are overfished, but were not experiencing overfishing in 2019. The coastwide regulation for bluefish is three fish/person/day. More: Fishing Report: Ocean sediment part of the fight against climate change More: Fishing Report: Scout's project puts fishing line in its place Bluefish provide a great fight for anglers and, if treated properly after catching them, they make for good table fare. Anglers have been treated recently to an abundance of bluefish of all sizes.
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