WHAT IS THE BEST TROLLING SPEED FOR BLUE FIN? AND SOME GOOD LURE COLORS ? CAN YOU JIG THEM WHEN THERE ARE DEEP AND WONT COME UP ?
AS FOR SPEED I DONT KNOW WHAT KNOTS= IN MPH AND THE SPEDO IS MPH
AN HELP WOULD BE GREAT. WANT TO HIT THE HILL IN A FEW WEEKS.

THANKS PAUL

P.S. ANYONE KNOW OF A GOOD RAMP ON THE EASTERN SHORE. GOING TO TRAILER THE BOAT OVER TO CUT DOWN ON RUN TIME

THANKS AGAIN PAUL

We leave out of Willis Wharf. On a good day its tricky to run the hour out to the ocean. Great ramp, real skinny water at low tide. If the winds allow we will go Sat or Sun in the next month at least. You run right over the 26 on your way to the canyon. There is probably better places to launch on the ocean side but this is where Capt berths his boat. If no other better options become available let me know, we'll get ya out and back in.

Mike

Speed is going to be controled more by the action of your spread...but I'd say 6-8 knots. Best colors are blue/white, pink/white, blue/pink. For schoolie bluefin, cedar plugs and smaller jet heads or Bullet lures work great too. Don't forget thsoe droon spoons on planners or spalshing on the surface way back.

Make sure you read the other post I made about teh VA-Pilot Article on the Bluefin population in the Atlantic.

[quote=knothead,Nov 1 2007, 09:17 PM]
We leave out of Willis Wharf. On a good day its tricky to run the hour out to the ocean. Great ramp, real skinny water at low tide. If the winds allow we will go Sat or Sun in the next month at least. You run right over the 26 on your way to the canyon. There is probably better places to launch on the ocean side but this is where Capt berths his boat. If no other better options become available let me know, we'll get ya out and back in.

Mike



There is an excellent public ramp with floating docks at Oyster with access to the inlet between Cobb and Wreck Islands Sand Shoals inlet.This is a deep inlet used by commercial shellfishers. The run from the ramp to the inlet is thru marsh protected channels that are well marked, but stay in them!
The channels between Fisherman's Island and Smith and between Smith and Myrtle Islands are deep approaching from the Marsh channels but then kind of peter out along the breaker line and are not marked out to sea. Not an exit or return point that I would want to count on and certainly not for a first timer. Bob

I think this is right except I would add the blue fin like it a little faster than yellow fins, so I wolud tend to the upper range of this speed - 8 to 10 knots. I have caught more on natural and black cedar plugs that everything else combined.
Steve is right in that article. I first started catching them in 1977 at the Fish Hook. They were as thick as flies and would bite early in the am at first light - we were loaded (no limit in those days) by 10:30 am and be on the way back to Rudee Inlet. I clearly remember throwing off hordes of bluefish - as fast as we could - to get another bluefin on as they were all mixed in. Three - 50 or 60 pounders and the anglers would hide in the salon saying" no mas" -take us home. A good sized blue fin is an absolute brute.

Yea, Faster is sometimes better for the Bluefin remember that where there are Bluefin there are Bluefish the faster troll reduces the Bluefish hook ups.They also like to move faster than yellowfin its easier to keep up with them and turn on them at a faster pace.

Blues are no joke. We fought one for near 3 hours on a TLD 30. We thought we had a monster on...turned out to be just over 70 pounds, but it fought like 700!

I fought a 175 lber on a old 50 that fish pulled like a Train.

We used to troll faster, pull bigger but fewer baits. 5 big baits in the spread. Since the primary forage back then was tinker mackeral, it was 2 blue and white Ilanders with horse 'hoos on the long riggers, cedar plugs on the flats and a bird/green machine on the shutgun. That was the standard. Worked real well too.

THANKS FOR ALL THE INFO. IT REALY HELPED


PAUL

I sure would like a shot a big BFT this year.

I wouldn't mind seeing one like this....




My Pops(pictured) was a mate in NJ and they targeted those monsters all the time. This one weighed in at 455#'s

your gonna look just like that in 30 years...Bob

I hope so!!!