May 8 CHSP

[Shady]

Yeah, definitely glad I had GPS yesterday!

[Sun]

It was exactly as you described. Thick in the morning, then came and went.

[AbuMasgouf]

Man it was a blast catching those blues and my first keeper Tog on a Kayak! Definitely one for the memory bank!

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[plastic boat]

Had a great day out there. Here are the photos that I have that are worth looking at. Thick FOG and from the photo of the under side of the pier you can see why it's closed. There is not much holding it up

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Then While back on the beach I discovered that my new outback dried to sink on me. I pumped out about 30 gallons of water. before I could pick it up to get the cart under it. I stopped by Delaware paddle sports and Chris Erby and crew had it fixed in less than 1 hour. It had a small hole in one of the scupper holes. They plastic welded the small hole and it should be good to go now.

[YakCapn]

I'm a glutton for punishment...make me jealous....what does a blue fish taste like? How do you prepare them? They look great in those photos.

[AbuMasgouf]

I'm a glutton for punishment...make me jealous....what does a blue fish taste like? How do you prepare them? They look great in those photos.

They are fantastic...

http://www.snaggedline.com/showthrea...Double-Masgouf

[Sun]

They are fantastic...

http://www.snaggedline.com/showthrea...Double-Masgouf

Will your little skewers be long enough for the monster blues you caught yesterday? haha

[Shady]

I kept two of the smallest ones I could find, both at 27". Blackened some for dinner yesterday = yum! Thin sliced some today for sashimi = delicious! Smoking the rest tomorrow, I love smoked bluefish! I bled them and cut off the red meat. If you properly take care of them they do not taste strong

[plastic boat]

I kept two of the smallest ones I could find, both at 27". Blackened some for dinner yesterday = yum! Thin sliced some today for sashimi = delicious! Smoking the rest tomorrow, I love smoked bluefish! I bled them and cut off the red meat. If you properly take care of them they do not taste strong

I would love to try to smoke some blue fish how long and at what temp do you smoke them ?
Thanks

[Shady]

I have a charcoal smoker and run it 2-3 hours starting around 200 deg and ending around 150 deg depending on thickness of fillets

[plastic boat]

I have a charcoal smoker and run it 2-3 hours starting around 200 deg and ending around 150 deg depending on thickness of fillets

Thanks I give it a try

[Shady]

Make sure to brine and dry before smoking as well

[AbuMasgouf]

Will your little skewers be long enough for the monster blues you caught yesterday? haha

LOL! Never thought I'd answer no to that question with the long ones I have! I have one 27" bluefish in the mix and I'm going to Masgouf that one. The rest I just filleted. Those are going on the grill.

[ComeOnFish]

I added the fishing video and more details to my first post on the first page. But I think it's OK to put the same descriptions and video here so that you don't go back to my first post.

It was another good day indeed. I had so much fun fishing with a bunch of forum members. My challenge was catching three species, Big Bluefish, Tog, and Flounder. I failed last week. So, I planned to fish for flounder a couple of hours.

I met Plastic Boat at parking lot. We trolled together for about 15 minutes. I lost him in the dense fog. I went to Mustafa and joined togging crew in the ocean side of the Inner Wall. Mustafa landed his first keeper tog. I was very happy about that. The tog bites weren't as good as that of the last Saturday. Though some members got limited out. I ended up 3 tog at 14, 14, and 15".

Bluefish fishing was great again. When I went through videos at home I found that I had so many bluefish hits. I didn't know the hits because the most of the hits last only a few seconds.

I didn't have to fish for flounder at all. I hooked a 20" flounder while trolling a crank-bait for bluefish. That was a pleasant surprise. So I achieved my goal, catching big bluefish, tog and flounder.

I tried hard to get to the members when they had fish on to take videos of the moments. I managed to take some videos of members with fish. It was hard to put all actions in a 6 minute fishing log video without too many redundant scenes. I like the first scene of me and Goody landing two big bluefish. Being on a Hobie, I could manage to get close to Goody to take video of both our fish. I muted here and there because my inappropriate language. We were having fun.:

Fishing Log Video with members, and violent rod bends when bluefish struck:

Thanks.
Joe

[Shady]

Oh, so jealous of the flounder! I guess I should have tried a little harder...