Ultimate Pier Trash Fish Catch, Clean & Cook! Massive Pier Bluefish 

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I know you all have been craving a pier video, so I hope you enjoy this one, I know I had a ton of fun making it! What's the biggest Bluefish you all have ever caught?

I like making fish cakes with bluefish. Find a can of old bay with the crab cake recipe on it and substitute the bluefish in for the crab meat. They are delicious!

Jack's and blues are great with or without the blood line. Grilled or baked with your choice of seasoning might just surprise you. Smaller Jacks tend to be less wormy.

My B&T guy had a bluefish reciepe... "As soon as you catch em bleed em and put em on ice. Scale em and fliet them with the skin on. Put em on some water soaked cedar boards and put em ob the grill. When the bkuefish is nice and firm and done....take it out and throw it in the trash and eat the cedar board." This guy has said this to me for the past decade when the blues came in the Sound. 😂😂😂

So glad I'm a surf fishing guy. Don't know how ANYONE can fish like that, lol. Although, catching the Yellow Eye Devils are always fun. Very oily fish when larger than 4-5lbs, great for smoking and fish dip. If you want to bake or broil, try soaking in butter milk or whole milk for a few hours prior to the oven. Will cut down on the oily texture of the larger fillets. Smart move on not incorporating the belly meat. Belly meat on blues is not palatable. Also, good call on the mayo. As oily as mayo is, for some reason it negates the oil of the meat. Mom used to do that when I brought home blue fish when I was a kid. As for the truck issue... Maybe someone tried to clone your key fob in the parking lot. The truck recognized it was not the correct codes being sent to it and sent itself in shutdown mode. After a while it woke and recognized your correct coded fob. Kind of like your I-phone locking you out for 5 minutes when you enter the wrong password.

as a kid in the mid 80's we used to catch these off the bridge in duxbury mass. some really good memories of those fall days!

Definitely, thank you Christina! Long day in a difficult job. My son has a 2021 F150, it's left him stranded a couple of times for the same reason, once while he was driving on one of Florida's highways. They did fix it, so far. Have a wonderful week you two, absolutely beautiful meal!

Big Jack's are so fun! Such power houses that will fight you to the end! So much power and so fast! They can rips some drag out in a heart beat!

Summer time in South Portugal we get huge schools of blue fish, not as big as these ones tho. Its an hard fighting fish and for sure my favourite fish to eat in the ocean. We just scale and climb them and they are ready to go to the grill, awsome video once again. Greetins from Portugal

What a great, healthy and delicious meal. You nailed it. When fish is fresh, no matter if it’s bluefish, snapper, or even a jack, it’s going to be good. You kept it simple, as you should with fresh fish. Just a little salt, pepper, oil, and a squirt of lemon is all you need.

We had days like that with king mackerel of the piers here in the Florida pan handle back in the day.

If you're looking for lures that cast far, and have the presentation of the gt ice cream you were talking about, look into a jig stick and some surface irons. Some of the best include kicker 25l, salas 7x, tady 45, starman 112, jri stinger, jri-dw1, and the jri-4. They're generally used for yellowtail and tuna in Southern California, but after explaining what you wanted out of your lure I believe these will fit that perfectly.

I just discovered your channel from one of the saragosa videos. Now I'm hooked hehe. Little bits of life advice, cooking and a whole lotta fishing action. Perfect! Cheers from Malaysia!

I’m from south florida too and I love fishing especially at juno beach and now i’m working towards a degree at UCF. I miss fishing but I guess I have to find new hobbies for the future.

I love catching and cooking blues. So so strong! My pb is 18 LB. I think I lost one bigger last Spring. It was a fun time tho. 😂

Back in the 60’ in Va when massive schools of these Gator Blues would infiltrate the Chesapeake Bay my Dad would harvest and sell 100’s of pounds Bluefish that ended up on the Sunday brunch of restaurants around Yorktown and Hampton Va.People loved it and it continued for many years.The fish was always fresh and taken great care of.

Ryan, thank you for your service! And thank you to Christina for her service at the hospital =DAppreciate the life lesson speech there, super cool for you to share all that. A lot of young men need to hear it See?? I be giving you videos some love! When you were out tuna fishing with Kurt Tillman, that was me on the phone that randomly called while you guys were filleting hehehe God bless

Semper Fi Brother! Glad I found your channel! I'm a Texas fisherman, if you're ever in Corpus Christi and want to fish on a boat. Let me know. I always welcome a fellow Marine to join me, fishing.

We were catching these like crazy a couple weeks ago, freaking awesome

A new video on leap day! Wow, we really must be lucky😋

That smaller, average ~2# blue is the size you want to eat it, especially if you bleed it fully or clean it right after your catch. Keep your lines tight, Juno Ryan.

My simple favorite recipe for Kingfish and Bluefish is, first lay out a big enough sheet of foil to completely wrap your filet in a package, thinly slice bell pepper and onions add salt ground pepper, and garlic powder to the filet, add a dollop of Mayo and smear a light coating over the fillet, place vegetable slices to the foil, place fish on top and wrap the foil tight in a sealed package flip vegetable side up so it is on top bake at 400 or put on moderate heated grill until done. The Mayo seems to kill that strong flavor of oily stronger fish, I ate a lot of Mackeral and Bluefish growing up in Pompano, it`s an old recipe. Thanks for the memories, some of the best days of my life fishing the piers and jetties of the East Coast. Oh and a fresh squeeze of lemon on the fish after cooking to personal taste.

I have caught Gator Blues from Long Island, N.Y. down to South New Jersey. They fight like hell. They also taste good if they are bled and cleaned properly. You are delivering GREAT content Ryan. Keep it up. I enjoy your love of fishing.

I lived in CT for a long time and caught lots of big blues and stripes. I started bleeding them with a cut at the tail and gills as soon as I caught them. When fileting, float your knife like you did to get the rest of the dark meat, use paul prudhomme blackened redfish seasoning to do a light blackened bluefish.

On the F150 issue: I suggest very closely inspecting the main fuses usually close to the battery that power up almost everything in the vehicle. We’ve found some Fords in our fleet with a CRACKED (not blown) fuse that causes an intermittent issue like the one you’re having. Best of luck and a Semper Fi brother

Cloves are the dried flower buds from a Myrtle Tree. It's an evergreen that is related to Eucalyptus, Allspice and Rum Tree. Originally from Indonesia and other spots in southeast Asia. Btw. Try using bluefish in your chowder. The strong flavor is actually complemented by the cream, quahogs and rendered pork belly. Most importantly, you need to bleed that fish while it's alive right at the dock. Slit the gills and the tail right away. Since they're still flipping around, they push all the blood out of the arteries on both sides.

CANT WAIT TILL IM CATCHING THESE IN NY!!!!!!!!!

Oh man, almost forgot about this channel. Really only watch the pier ones 😅

its crazy how little those big ones fight down there. they fight like kings up north

I don't know about your truck, but it makes me appreciate my 1996 Dodge Dakota.

Also SMOKED blue fish are amazing! Makes for one hell of a fish dip!

First thing I would try for your truck is the key fob battery. Your fob may not be indicating it is at your truck sometimes.

Great video Ryan! Some beautiful blues caught. That was an amazing plate of food. You’ve really stepped up your skills! Thanks for sharing!!!

Yep. Foresure. I love fried bluefish when assessed properly by bleeding & icing right away. I think alot of people sleep on blues. Especially some floridians. Im a native floridian myself & ofcourse my fav & perferred fish to eat is snook but even tho blues is more of an up north fish to eat l still will be happy to eat some fresh fried blue any time. I love it. Ive actually turned several people onto it before when they were certain it was trash. Now they think differently

Nice Blues! Cool to see them in south FL. I'm from the northeast and we get them all the time. A great recipe is to completely coat the meat in mayonnaise then sprinkle with salt/pepper, and taragon then throw lemon slices on and bake it. The mayonnaise will bake off and remove a good amount of the oil so it is a much better experience haha. Nice lunkers man!

I'm in my 60's and I have always eaten bluefish jack crevalle barracuda and others since my early teens they're good no issue with me I don't use the term trash fish. Oh and just because I don't care to cook I just fry or broil them

Blue Fish is called Ancho in Trinidad, that fish is my absolute favorite fish..i love that it is oily, its also great in a soup...i love it

blue fish are really good eating when fresh and are pound for pound one of the hardest fighting fish you'll find on the beach or pier. Here is a tip, because its such an oily fish they are great smoked..think smoked fish dip.

RE: Your truck. Since it wouldn't unlock with the key fob, I assume some kind of anti-theft kicked in and didn't let you start the truck. I would check the battery in the key fob, make sure that it isn't dead. Ford truck usually have the keypad on the door, try that next time because it should disable the anti-theft as well.

Glad to see ya back on the pier. Well even if the bluefish is not that great taste wise you have some yellowfin to fall back on ;-) keep up the good work and have a great day Ryan.

Love the pier videos there always fun to watch can’t wait till summer

Fords have a very weird "reset" option. I dealt with this on a 2021 Platinum. Believe it or not, you remove the cup holder liner, and stick your faub in there, and it re-sets! I know it sounds insane, but I youtubed it to figure it out!!

Best way I've cooked them here in NC is two ways. 1. Season with Everglades fish and chicken after cutting into small fillets. Batter with medium hot chicken breader and lightly fry. Put in the fridge overnight. The next day, pull all apart, mix in Dukes mayo, sweet pickles diced, some sugar and salt and pepper. Tastes like chicken salad the 1st day. Second day it will taste more of the fish flavor. 2. Brine and smoke your big fillets like you would a king mackeral, and make a dip. It's delicious.

Around the 5-10lb mark is the BEST bluefish without a question

I caught a pair of those Blues along the Space Coast a few weeks ago They have amazing green eyes

3 fish 1 net! Epic! All the boys are out there!

Dude. Your key fob Battery is likely dying. Happened to my 2014 f150 (I had to get towed bc mine died an hour from my house). My other key worked fine, and ford replaced the battery inside the key so the original one went right back to working. Good luck!

Here in NC when we get the big blues in I like to cook them like I do stripers, which is deep fried chucks. Cut them into 2x2 chunks and deep fry them in a hot hot oil. I feel like the hot cooking oil displaces the fish oils and takes away some of that oil fishy flavor. However we just fry the smaller ones with your favorite seafood breader mix, ours happens to be a Cajun breader. All personal preference obviously but bulefish in my opinion is not a junk fish.

Bluefish have actually been pretty scarce for about 20 years in the mid atlantic. From the 60's to the 90s they were king of the ocean. Partyboats would bring in thousands every day. The surf fall blitzes would run September till Thanksgiving. All your arms could handle. I haven't seen a blitz on the beach for at least 20 years in New Jersey. Partyboats haven't bothered fishing for them for about the same amount of time. There have been signs lately though that they may be starting a coming back.

I’ve been told that Jacks are very good

I love bluefish''I leave the skin on and put sliced red and white onions,red or green peppers,sliced fresh garlic sliced tomatoes and put it under the broiler and cook it like a steak;;Sqeeze your lemon on at the end.Whte wine drizzled on top before cooking it.Vegies keep it from burning the fish,also fresh parsely is good.Enjoy''

Although my trips to Hillsboro for my offshore fishing, never produced any blues, my OC MD trips have. One thing I do is salt brine for a few hours after removing all blood, then drain, and over night marinade the fillets in soy sauce. Then cook or bake it anyways you prefer

G'Day Mate, we call them tailor in southern Australia. they are fantastic hot smoked, grilled or with a curry. we get them much smaller in size.

I thought that until I cooked one on the grill 20 minutes after catching it. It was delicious.

Very good fishing. Strike many big fishes. Very good cooking. Very delicious foods. I watch upto finish your video my friend. Full watching.

Great video Ryan. I have eaten the smaller Bluefish. I would imagine it would be good smoked. The pier looked insane for a minute and those bigger blues look like they can fight. Stay safe out there brother.

I grew up on the piers. I loved being a pier rat when I was a kid

Hi Ryan, I really enjoy watching your videos. I am a new subscriber from Indonesia.

Those Van Stall reels really are popular in the U.S for shore casting.

Great video as always! My go to way to cook bluefish is the cedar plank method. Soak the fish overnight in Italian dressing. Put them on a plank then grill for 20 minutes. Allow to cool, remove the fish and eat the plank instead 😂

"thats the mahi from japan" got me good 22:32

You may have a bad connection with the wires that connect the security system to the battery. My wife had an issue very similar to that and I had to take the eyelet connector off because, whoever put it on the first time didn't strip the wires enough, so I cut their connection off restriped the wire, and added my own eyelet wire connector, and have not had a problem with it since, and that's been over 2yrs now.

Awesome man, when i tried going to juno pier a little past mullet run the conditions were like this except nobody caught anything

Major Chaos, in high-volume🎣🎣

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I've been subbed to you for years but never really watched you. This video was fantastic. Filmed and put together very well. Many things I agree with you on and some I disagree with you on. Never been to Florida, hell never been further south on the east coast than Hatteras NC. We either tossed blues back or used them for bait(very good bait), but we did an inshore charter one time and caught blues and told the captain just to toss em back and he was dumbfounded. We said how we'd freeze them and take them home and they were awful eating. He told us to take them back to the rental and eat them within the next three days and your mind will be blown. He was right, we cooked them up that night or the next night and they were phenomenal. They were average blues, not monsters like in your video. They probably went 10-18 inches. I don't think I'd keep one over 22-24 inches. But I've never even caught one that big lol so who knows. I'm a believer in throw the little fish and big fish back. Let the small fish grow and let the big fish breed. Take what you need from the mid range fish. In virtually every fish and even animal, you're going to get a better quality meat from smaller and younger specimens unless their meat is fatty. If you harvest too much from the small range than that can endanger the species, at least if everyone does the same. Over the years I also learned about properly bleeding and icing fish and realistically all meat. That grows ever more important with larger fish. I had a 24 inch channel cat once and it was pretty much inedible due to tasting so bad. Nearly a decade later they were draining that lake for a dam replacement so I fished it hard and got a few 28 inch channel catfish. I figured it would be a disaster but I didn't want to waste the fish and let them rot on the bottom of a dry muddy lake. I took what I learned and bled them, iced them immediately and took them home. I cut off any yellow or red in the fillets which was fat and bloodline. That was some of the best fish I've ever eaten. Also you took a shot at pompano saying they are overrated. How dare you?? lol. They are absolutely fantastic table fare. The only issue I encountered is they also have a massive bloodline that becomes even more pronounced that they grow.

Cliffy in the jack gaff! I’m jealous!

If Bluefish are handling correctly and prepared right they are a delicious eating fish.

Great video my guy. What I’ve usually seen with the situation with your truck is bad ground connection. With all the new electronics in vehicles now it could be any number of things. Can’t wait to see the blues as they move back north through canaveral. Keep up the great work.

They love to run under the pier and break u off. 😂😂 I enjoy the fight, so I try not to horse them all the way in. Smaller reel, lots of patience. By the time they get close they’re fone.

We use blue fish and jacks for crab traps bait.

Jack ceviche comes out delicious!

We call Bluefish, Taylor here and they are great smoked.

Awesome video ryan if you ever cook Bluefish again i heard letting the filets sit in milk overnight will kill some of the gameness but that fish looked awesome tightlines Brother🤙🏻

If it been a rod, I’m interested in catching it. Love your videos

Almost 100k let’s goooooo. where did you buy that pulley from for the fishing gear?

Here in NC 5lbers are easy. On obx weve caught dozens at 15 pounds plus in a day

Great video! The blood meat is great bait.

I truly agree that you need to ice your fish as soon as possible

I Love Your Videos Ryan!🤗

There's nothing like fishing elbow to elbows on a fishing pier lol❤😂 chaos

Smaller bluefish are the best eating, both for taste and because they have accumulated fewer chemicals

When your fishing for blues, in off colored water, may I recommend a 1.25oz + rat l trap. The more visible the better.

fun fact blue fish are very desirable fish(sort of delicacy) ,its over fished our bag limit for the day is 3 fish

Also, my brother had the same thing happen with his 2019 Explorer. Went to Walmart to get groceries, came back out 30 minutes later to 0% power to anything. Spent 10 minutes tinkering around then the lights came on. He bought a new battery just to be safe but I highly doubt it was the battery. Never got an answer from the dealership as to what it actually was

How many times have you heard "you should have been here yesterday".

The Bluefish - known as Elf or Shad in South Africa is considered a great eating fish by fish connoisseurs. But not like you cooked it. Best for me, and I’ve tried many recipes, is fillet and leave skin on. 1. Salt with med course salt and wind dry for a few hrs - draws moisture out 2. Then cut into portions and pan fry in butter. I must add that our min size is 30cm, and a good one weighs around 7lb, but the odd ones come out up to 20lb.

Hope they come to NY/NJ

You should beheld the blue fish and jacks o make them taste better

Amazing content, had to subscribe. Hopefully one day i get this far.

In Australia we call "Bluefish" "Tailor". They are popular and highly sought after table fish, not "trash fish" at all. You just need to bleed them as soon as you get them to get a cleaner taste. If they aren't bled they have an unpleasant flavour. It's extremely bizarre to me that anyone would label them "trash fish".

If you get tailor bleed immediately get them on ice and they’re very nice

Ryan, another awesome video.... Great job..

yes the sensor to the door of grocery store affect the key fab its happening here at aldis grocery store in town here there Senors on door affect people's key fabs and they have to call a tow truck to start there vehicle or they get locked out cus it disables there key fab Man CHRISTINA LOOKED WHOOPED AFTER THAT 12 HR SHIFT I FEEL YA CUZ MY OLD LADY DOSE SAME SHIFT AT HOSPTIAL AND COMES HOME IDENTICAL TO CHRISTINA LOL love u both god bless awesome meal!

Honestly with how high tech vehicles are now a days you might have caught it rebooting after an update

My dream fish to catch would be a jack!

Favorite video so far great job 👍

When did an alligator snag hook become a gaffe?😂😂

While living in Australia people love tailor aka bluefish