{"id":860,"date":"2010-09-13T18:21:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T01:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=860"},"modified":"2010-09-26T17:09:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T00:09:17","slug":"reef-madness-at-shagwong-40-acres-of-bluefish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"Reef Madness at Shagwong: 40 Acres of Bluefish"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s fishing, and there’s boating; But there’s also exceptions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

September 11, 2010<\/p>\n

My good friend and stalwart fishing buddy Big Bob W. filed this report from the weekend, which is worthy of a special “Boater’s Edition” of FishTales.<\/p>\n

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A report from the waters at Shagwong Reef.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Big Bob battles a brawny bluefish on Shagwong Reef.<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/em>Saturday 3:30-4:30 pm 9\/11\/10.\u00a0 Shortly after my phone died while speaking to you on Saturday afternoon, I was cruising the waters around Shagwong with my son Sean and his friend Jonathan, a fishing debutante from Annapolis MD, when we witnessed quite a display of nature.\u00a0 It started with a small group of birds working over some bluefish.\u00a0 We hurried to the spot and picked off one small blue.\u00a0 Shortly after that at about 3:30, we saw a larger group of birds near the Shagwong buoy to our north.\u00a0 While we traveled in that direction, more and more birds arrived until birds covered the sky from the Shagwong buoy south\u00a0to Shagwong point and west to the buoy marking the mouth of Montauk harbor.\u00a0 The dinner bell sounded and a million, three to four pound bluefish starting feeding on either bay anchovies or baby spearing.\u00a0 It was hard to tell\u00a0based on the regurgitated remains that covered the deck of my boat.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Within five minutes, we had 6 blues landed and in the fish box.\u00a0 We also had one broken reel and one snapped line from my new light tackle rod.\u00a0 The deck was covered with blood, fish guts and semi-digested bait fish.\u00a0 Some of the blood was mine as I sliced my finger on fire wire line trying to help my charges pull their fish into the boat.\u00a0 With two rods down we switched to boat poles that had been set up with leaders and quickly added small diamond jigs. We dropped lines to the bottom and just reeled straight up and caught a fish on every retrieval. <\/em><\/p>\n

With 8 fish already in the box, we just shook the new catches off the line and went back down. I kept thinking of one of your basic rules: never leave the fish.\u00a0 But by this time a reel on one the new boat poles had also jammed.\u00a0\u00a0I was also running low on fuel and day, so we headed into Star Island Marina for gas and\u00a0filleted our\u00a0fish.\u00a0 And then into the setting sun.<\/em><\/p>\n


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Fish Magnet: The reef and point at Shagwong, Montauk<\/p><\/div>\n

Thank God I had two young guys with me to scrub down the boat when we arrived back at Hogs Creek marina.\u00a0 I was exhausted. Karen agreed to include bluefish on our evening menu. We grilled the fish with a spicy rub that\u00a0proved very tasty.\u00a0\u00a0These small bluefish were indeed\u00a0some of the very best I have eaten.\u00a0 All of our guests enjoyed it and I must say that even Karen ate an entire fillet.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It was one of the largest concentrations of fish I have ever seen.\u00a0 If this is a foreshadowing of the season to come it will be one\u00a0for the ages.\u00a0 I can ony hope that the bass will be as plentiful.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Talk to you soon.<\/em><\/p>\n

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There’s fishing, and there’s boating; But there’s also exceptions. September 11, 2010 My good friend and stalwart fishing buddy Big Bob W. filed this report from the weekend, which is worthy of a special “Boater’s Edition” of FishTales. Fred; A report from the waters at Shagwong Reef. Saturday 3:30-4:30 pm 9\/11\/10.\u00a0 Shortly after my phone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}