In the warm weather schools of blues can be observed feeding close to the surface making them easy prey for the alert fisherman. A myriad of fishing techniques are available from chunking to trolling to casting artificials. In the fall as the water cools these fish will slowly make their way offshore towards the warmer gulf stream water feeding closer to the bottom. Here jigging shiny metal off the bottom can really be effective. In the winter there is some debate on where the fish migrate.
Some experts feel they stay offshore in the Gulf Stream.
Others feel the fish may migrate southward. Occasionally bluefish tagged in New York Harbor have been caught in Florida waters. This tends to lend credence to the latter rather than the former hypothesis. One thing does appear certain however, and that is that there are no interchanges taking place between the species of the northeast United States and that of the larger variety off of Africa s Atlantic coast.