You do not need to get exotic on the tackle end. Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, coat blowfish, dip in egg wash, re-coat blowfish, then flash fry in cooking oil at high temp for 1 min. Tackle Captree B&T Spicy Blowfish RecipeDry Ingredients:1 cup flour Anchor up, drop the chum pot and go to work. For example, if the water depth is averaging 4 to 6 feet, find a hole from 8 to 10 feet deep. What I found effective last year was finding a slightly deeper hole then the average water depth in the area. Last year I had blowfish at the mouth of Heckscher State Park, near the OBI rocks, Narrow Bay and Tuthill Cove in Moriches, plus had numerous reports from other areas on the North and South shores. In our area, you will find them in 10 feet of water or less for the most part. I am sure Bay Shore Marina in Great South and the pier inside Smiths Point Park are also holding them.īlowfish, or northern puffer, is found in bays, estuaries and protected coastal waters, and can range from 5 feet of water up to very deep ocean waters. One of the hottest two areas early on this year has been the Tanner Park Pier and Captree Overlook Dock. Blowfish are just as plentiful for the shorebound angler as well as they are for boaters. I have seen guys this year from Sag Harbor to Great South Bay fishing from the shore and catching, so don’t feel you need a boat to score. ![]() Add a chum pot filled with clam chum if you are fishing from a boat, and you can get them feeding pretty quickly. The preferred three baits however are clams, squid and worms, all of which in my opinion will work equally well. ![]() Simple To Find And Catch The author’s grandson Alex had a blast with blowfish on a trip last year.Īs I said earlier, blowfish will eat just about anything you put on a hook. Andrew Muqattash, with his dad Isa, had his first-ever weakfish while targeting blowfish last year off Heckscher. The positive note is they spawn from May through August in shallow waters, which is a long spawning period. A little saving now will go a long way in keeping blowfish around for years to come. If you head out to catch some of the little puffers, keep a handful for the table, and release the rest to swim and breed for next year’s crop. But think about it, if we take any and all sizes, how long do you think it will be before they disappear again? Currently there are no regulations on blowfish recreationally or commercially. The way I see it, they have made a great comeback, but before we get into how and where to catch them, let’s think about conservation first. Northern puffers are perfectly safe to eat. In Moriches, they were there by the end of May, and in good numbers.įour tasty ones ready for the frying pan. This year, they are already in the mix, with anglers landing jumbo blowfish in Great South Bay as early as mid-May. Reports of great tasting “Chicken of the Sea” were once again prominent. In fact, they were so plentiful last year, kids of all ages got in on the fun. Last year was the first good run of blowfish in Great South and Moriches bays in years. They would eat anything and it did not matter what the tide was or what time of day. At 10, I would catch them off the Bay Shore Marina Dock using whatever bait I had that day – clams, squid, a piece of chicken, worms, whatever. When we took it out of the towel it puffed up and we dropped it back in the water as we had never seen anything like that.įast forward to today, 53 years later, and I still remember it well, and still remember how much fun they were when I was a kid. At 8, you then put the little fish in a cup and see how many different ones you catch. ![]() You and a buddy grab an end of a towel, then drag it along the bottom, scooping up small fish. If you have never heard of towel fishing, it goes like this. Photo by Captree Bait and Tackle.įor kids and adults, blowfish are just plain, old fun and pretty darn good eating.ĭo you remember the first time you saw a blowfish? I do! I was 8 years old and my friend and I were doing some towel fishing. This little guy was caught off the Captree Pier Memorial Day weekend of this year.
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