They used to not have any limit on them, and when my Dad had his boat, me and Matt's Dad caught lots and lots of them. One day, just the two of us got 64 of em. (The current limit is 10/day).
They all fight like crazy, but when they start getting over 8 lbs you have a real fight on your hands (they can get up to 20 lbs, and we often got them in the teens). Matt's Dad once caught one that was 36", but it looked half starved!
On spinning rods with 20 lb test, they were all you could handle, and you just hoped that a second one did not cut your line after the first one was hooked (you caught a lot more of them if you did not use wire leaders).
They liked Silver Diamond jigs with a pattern to imitate scales. In about 60 feet of water we would cast as far as we could, then after it hit bottom start bringing it up real fast, then a brief stall and reel again … that is when you hooked up. They would think it was sand ells coming off the bottom.
I'll have to scan some of my pics from back then, they were not digital. Matt was a little tyke back then, but loved to come with us.
They have teeth sharp as razors, and I have seen them boil the water like piranha. I have heard that some of the attacks on sailor's during WWII were by schools of Bluefish, and I believe it. They are fearless, aggressive and nasty.
Baking them with some oregano and other spices (and sliced fresh tomato from the garden) helped tame the taste. We had it often. We caught too many to eat all of them fresh, so we froze lots of them. I much preferred eating Bonito or Stiped Bass, but it was infrequent that we were able to get them. Blue Fish almost always seemed to be there!
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