Bunker Mayhem: Blue Fish Attack Huge School of Bunker 

This reminds me of stories from before the 1900's. It was said the vikings didn't need boats to invade England because you just had to wait for the cod to spawn, and you could walk across the North Sea. Video like this, makes me think they were not exaggerating.

Once I see the yellow tails of Bunker in the water, with or without predators, I get so hyped. Even when you snag them, they fight really good!

Bloke is still trying catch one by hand, three years later!

Had this happen a couple years ago off North Beach, Sandy Hook. But huge stripers and blues were smashing them, Literally jumping clear out of the water.. Long story short, Took a few days for our arms to recover lol. Awesome video. Nice to see this.

Fantastic video, thanks for sharing!

they are eating fish ocationally. So there are huge fishes in the river. So i glad to see this.

Id think if there were blues there itd be a little more violent, no? thats an amazing sight though would love to come across something like this one day

Amazing!lots of blue fish.

interesting...thanks for sharing vid....* I grew up in Danbury Ct an we used to fish the sound an would hunt for bunker to use as bait for the blues... 1FM Lake George, NY

it was like that 2 springs ago off the jetty at the manasquan inlet,, monster blues around 40 inches were under them any time you dropped a lure under them you had a monster on

Oh my God, so amazing

I come from the Pacific Islands and I too never see anything like that, ty for sharing this. have a nice one.

agree totally with Wes

weird, our world, one day we are lookin at a huge fish die off. and the next i see a video like this. how can some part of nature be so strong and yet people are whining all the time about the end of all things. sheesh. Nice Video guys. really, thanks.

So very nice..👍👍👍

Years ago, in the summer months you had schools like this all the way into Canada. Your lucky if you see a small school as far North as Gloucester Ma....today! You only need a few Blues or Stripers under the Pogys to drive them to the surface like that. Their instinct to school-up and survive are like no other fish. I love Menhaden -- find a school of these guys and your almost guaranteed to catch something.

Could not help but notice that there were no bluefish or stripped bass caught during the video.

what a lot of fish. very nice

there is something definitely wrong with that shawl of fish. it looks more like water lacking oxygen or polluted.

The first time i ever went blue fishing was in the LI Sound. HUGE schools of blues would frenzy at the surface for whatI was told were Bay Fish. Great video. Thank you.

humans from New Jersey aren't the sharpest tools in the shed

I hope we have that huge fish in the Philippines so that our fishermen don't use dynamite just to catch fish for their daily living. your place was so blessed. thank God.

The bait fish are not being attacked by large blues, they are dying from a red-tide plankton bloom that is cutting off oxygen to the fish. Note that the fish are attempting to swim on their sides to at least expose one set of gills to surface air. Shortly they will all wash up on the shore.

Wow! Fish Amazing

The Brits have the Blue Planet series for the oceans and us Long Islanders have this;)

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Looks like a big fish kill. The bunker get chased by the bluefish into shallow water and they can not breath and die off.

This is really sad. That huge shoal of menhaden is dying. They may have swam into a dead-zone and are being asphyxiated due to the lack of oxygen.

Very Good

Living at the beach in Jax, Fl, my neighbor would take his wheelbarrow down to the beach, cast net up a load of Pogies (as we call them) and plant them around his tomatoes...haha

Definitely just a massive die off.....some were barely moving

what the hell is a ling doing back here? lol - great video

wooooooow!!! i love fishhhhh

A bluefish I had speared free diving attached itself to my bicep like a bull dog. Had to have a friend cut it's body in two next to it's head with a fillet knife leaning over the transom while I pushed it into my arm and held my arm out. If I tried to pull it away it would clamp down harder. 15 stitches and a bloody mess. Texas GOM

THAT'S HOW THEY MADE MCDONALD'S FISH FILET FROM THESE BUNKERS.. YUMMM

This calls for a Beer

Bunker numbers are indeed low,just because you see a school like this does not mean its like this all over,you were just lucky to see it

wonderfull wow good job

oh god, if i see something like this, i'll fall in a deep fishing frenzy. anyway it's pretty sad that all those fish are suffering like that

when a blue fish grabs your hand you're gonna know it!

I let my cat 🐈 watch this and he won't stop laughing

See this almost every day on long island especially when it shallow water . Not polluted, dying or suffering they are usually being pushed to the top by fluke, blues or stripers

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Amazing

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That's a small school! I remember seeing some that were 10 acres and more! And we loaded up on the bluefish.

If a school of tuna was in that mess all those poor little fish would b gone😭😭

lol, yeah, if your fish finder can't find them fishes, it's time to get a new fish finder.

Wow ....blu fish ....good job.. Mantab....

They all came to the surface all at once. I hope the other boats were fishing and got some too.

Im sorry, but this is no feeding frenzy. Note the lethargy and lack of predatorial fish in the video.This is a fish kill in the process. These fish have been trapped in an anoxic zone and are dying due to lack of dissolved oxygen in the water. This is what a bluefish "blitz" looks like. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gd9k_UNC15A.html

wooooowww amazing

ive seen em thick over the years but not this thick!!!! DAM!

Very cool

oh my God...wow

nice awesome

Those fish are dying! They must have notice something wrong in the sea!

Crazy nuts

This guy says there all dead fish too in the beginning and then says there all alive 😂😂 dude I'm dying

Would ya look at that!

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Alex is gonna be so jealous.

Nick, when and where was that school of bunker, and has anyone said it might have been a spawn?

guess these guys have never seen this before... LOL... I see it every week

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wow wow i like fish very nice

I can't believe there's no birds working them.

Wow Ameezing

love it... new jersey?

Wow wow

I believe those fish are mating

Good ol cast net would do the job

Good Fish

Instead of playing with the bunker...You should have live lined one of them to the bottom where giant stripers are...

some just talk to hear themselves talk. somethings brings out the goofs in this. nutz...crazy....nutz....crazy.....our own aquarium....LMAO!!

wow cool

The current has pushed them up far enough so that their swim bladder's have expanded too much, the buoyancy is greater than the force needed to get back to the bottom, they float around until the gas is released.

jesus: go on the left side of the island ppl on the boat:😲😲😲😲😲😲

We call them LY here in Maryland

man i wish i was there dude

That's allot of damn bunker! It's hard to imagine that this is the way it used to be back in the 60's. And here we are again with the school of bunker, baitfish, so enormous that the blusfish are going bananas. There are videos like this in Florida with the mullet run this last autumn! I love to fish when the baitfish are so abundant. It lends itself to getting the best catches of sportfish and eating fish, whether bluefish or other species.

omg a lot fish

2 years ago a huge school came right by the statue of liberty had to be millions of them half mile long

Lots of lobster bait there.

LOOK AT DIS.

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nice

Where were you guys fishing out of?

that's definitely no blitz

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Are blues any good to eat? I live on the west coast so we don't have blues or many free floating fish for that matter.

Its not just that.. more important than the fish being cluster at the surface is the fact there isnt any seagulls in the area!!!

That's fish poisoning gents

imagine how much chum blocks you could make out of those. Id throw my castnet till my arms fell off

where is this place bro..

my god wow

Looks like a bowl of cereal

They are spawning. if there where blues or strippers under them they would be jumping

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