In July 2006, a seven-year-old girl was attacked on a beach, near the Spanish town of Alicante, allegedly by a bluefish. Wading or swimming among feeding bluefish schools can be dangerous. Most juvenile bluefish spawned during the summer in the mid-Atlantic and in the spring in the South Atlantic remain in coastal waters, but some summer-spawned fish do enter the lower Bay for a couple of months before they return to the coast in the fall and join the adults in their move southward. Chopper bluefish runs once were commonplace at the Outer Banks beaches, especially at Ocracoke Island, during October and November during the 1970s and. Bluefish in the 2-5-pound class were breaking on the surface again today, and the Golden Eagle from Belmar reported that it was all you want fishing again. Bluefish are aggressive and have been known to inflict severe bites on fishermen.Those fish that were spawned in the south during the spring are 6-8 inches, whereas those spawned in the summer are 2-4 inches.Juvenile bluefish grow quickly and by late fall, there are usually two size groups along the mid-Atlantic and New England coasts.Inshore: Sadly, we do not have any boats scheduled for inshore trips today. There has even been some Flounder caught as well but not many keepers. The reports have proved that any top-water lures have been working best along with cut Finger Mullet. And yes, apparently, some people feed them to their pets. After they spawn, bluefish move inshore with smaller fish generally entering Chesapeake and Delaware Bay and larger ones moving northward. There are still some Bluefish in Rudee Inlet, though the bite has dropped off a bit. Others, as I have sadly witnessed, just kill them and leave them to die on the beach.In Maryland, peak spawning occurs offshore in July. Spawning and larval development takes place offshore in the South Atlantic (North Carolina to Florida) in the spring and to a lesser extent in the summer and fall, and in the mid-Atlantic during the summer.Most bluefish mature by age 2 (approximately 14ВЅ inches), and females can produce from 900,000 to 4,500,000 eggs.Most juvenile bluefish spawned in the south during the summer in the mid-Atlantic and in the fall spring in the South Atlantic remain in the coastal waters, but some summer-spawned fish do enter the lower Bay for a couple of months before they return to the coast in the fall and join the adults in their move southward.

Bluefish bite