With the wind blowing pretty good out of the East and snotty seas Tommy and I decided to run down Barnegat Bay to the BB buoy and go blowfishing.  For both of us it ws our first blowfishing trip.    We left the dock about 7:30 and made good time South and were setup by 8:15.

It wasn’t 15 minutes after getting the chum pots and lines in before we had a pretty good school of northern puffers around the boat and bent rods.  The action continued for a few hours till the tide went slack.

We  also had countless short sea bass and half a dozen nice sized porgies and a few snappers to round out the mixed bag.

Water was 63.9 to 65.8 depending on time of day and location in the bay.  Fish took both clam and squid and we ended up keeping 35 good sized blowfish and half dozen porgies.

Tags: blowfish, bluefish, porgies, sea bass

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