Blowfish by Dave Spendiff

Posted on August 21, 2019 by kelli

My son Kyle and his family were up from Maryland and we squeezed in a morning of blowfish fishing last Friday. They forgot to bring the child life jackets, so we draped adult jackets on the girls and headed for Barnegat bay north of the BI buoy, anchored up, put the chum pot over the side and started catching blowfish. The girls, ages 6 ½ & 4 ½, had a ball cranking in the fish and putting the “balloon fish” in the live well. We only spent an hour and a half fishing before heading back. In addition to blowfish, we caught fluke, sea bass and porgies.

The eating may have been the best part of all!

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Fishing Facts

Of the fifty United States, thirty-eight have a striped-bass record. New Jersey has the largest striped-bass record—a 78-pound 8·ounce whopper that was caught in 1982. The state with the smallest striped-bass record is Iowa. That landlocked striper weighed only 9 pounds 4 ounces and was caught in 1983.

There’s something fishy about beer these days. Fish Tail Ale is popular as ever, and New Jersey’s Flying Fish Brewery is one of the state’s largest specialty breweries. There’s also Washington’s Wild Salmon Organic Pale Ale, Florida’s Land Shark beer, Delaware’s Dogfish Head beer, and two versions of Stingray beer—a lighter version from the Cayman Islands and a dark beer from Canada.

The triangle fly is probably the most unusual of saltwater flies. It’s one of the few, if not only, flies tied to a treble hook. It’s also barely a fly at all, because hardly any material is used. It is complete after tying the two straw pearl twinkle flashes and the tiny tuft of natural squirrel, leaving an entire hook fully exposed. Incredibly this barebacked treble fly is a knockout when it comes to sea trout.