| Author | Message | ||
| Pounder
New member Username: Pounder Post Number: 1 Registered: 2-2001 |
Can someone do me a favor and start keeping more of them? Thanks in advance. WoooHooo Post # "1" | ||
| Flukinuki
New member Username: Flukinuki Post Number: 24 Registered: 7-2003 |
Welcome pounder...Just to let ya know I did you a favor over the weekend and kept 5 croaker for ya  | ||
| Warden
Senior Member Username: Warden Post Number: 700 Registered: 8-2000 |
Pounder, welcome to the board, again....Just where are you being bothered by all these croakers? | ||
| Pounder
New member Username: Pounder Post Number: 2 Registered: 2-2001 |
Croakers are everywhere in the Delaware Bay. I surf fished Bennet's and was bothered by them. I fished the Fingers above Blake Channel an caught them all day long. They are being caught at the Oyster beds of Mahon as well as in 55' of water off the outer wall in Lewes. I dont see how you can miss them? | ||
| Gradywhite244
Advanced Member Username: Gradywhite244 Post Number: 187 Registered: 2-2001 |
Strange, so far this year guys on my boat have only caught 4 croakers. Flounder outnumber croaks by at least 5 to 1 & I'm not complaining one bit. | ||
| Ocsurffishn
Intermediate Member Username: Ocsurffishn Post Number: 169 Registered: 1-2003 |
Went out north of the Rt. 90 bridge with the cousins... and of course, the youngest (6) was the only one with a double header hookup and the biggest fish of the night Quite a wind blowing... the bridge broke up the white-caps and it was pretty calm Kept 20 between the 6 of us... had about 50 keepers, didn't want too many Fortunately we didn't hook up with any of those dead-weight, fightless, tasteless flounder. Good fishin' | ||
| Charlietuna
Senior Member Username: Charlietuna Post Number: 1455 Registered: 7-2000 |
Welllll Pounder, if you caught plenty of croakers at Bennett's Pier, you're the only person that caught anything resembling an edible species there this year. Consider yourself extremely lucky. I put in more than ten days there and countless hours before giving up for the year. One croaker all spring / early summer. From now on, croakers are about all there'll be at Bennett's. Even in productive years when the trout bite is on, from July onward, Bennett's goes in the dumper....unless you like catching dogfish, sandbars, and skates. To coin Monty Python, "awlways look on the bryight side of life". Hell, this year, croakers are welcome in my book. | ||
| Shamrock22
Intermediate Member Username: Shamrock22 Post Number: 171 Registered: 10-2002 |
A GUY AT WORK SAID HE CAUGHT, ALL YOU WANTED, SOUTH OF ROOSEVELT ON LEWES BEACH LAST WEEK; PLUS A 22"FLOUNDER AND A 33" WEAKIE; ALL ON BLOODS AND KINGFISH RIGS! THE GUY IS A STRAIGHT SHOOTER SO I BELIEVE HIM!!! | ||
| Steve
Junior Member Username: Steve Post Number: 66 Registered: 4-2003 |
OC, any real size to the keepers? Biggest one I've caught there so far was only about 10', using squid. | ||
| Dick
Senior Member Username: Dick Post Number: 1883 Registered: 5-2001 |
10 foot Croaker?  bet that was a battle. couldn't resist..... CT, if we went by what you caught and haven't caught, there wouldn't be a productive spot on the entire east coast..  | ||
| Charlietuna
Senior Member Username: Charlietuna Post Number: 1459 Registered: 7-2000 |
Eat me. We'll see soon enuff laddie. I am the greatest fishermam I know, just ask me. Slowly but surely, I'm throwing away the bait for the arties. Move over Saxatilis. | ||
| Surfcaster
Senior Member Username: Surfcaster Post Number: 603 Registered: 10-2002 |
they must be related to the 10' trout we caught this year. | ||
| Dagsborodangler
New member Username: Dagsborodangler Post Number: 44 Registered: 10-2002 |
The wife and I even caught some in IRB. Let me correct that, she caught some and she let me reel in a couple. They averaged around 9" to 10". | ||
| Ocsurffishn
Intermediate Member Username: Ocsurffishn Post Number: 171 Registered: 1-2003 |
Biggest one was 13"... by the 6 year old... We only kept ones that went well over the 9" marking on our cutting board... so there were 20 that were at least 10" There are probably bigger ones around but we were using tiny pieces of bait just to catch something in that chocolate milk known as the Assawoman Bay Should clear up as soon as the wind stops howlin at 20 from the south-southwest | ||
| Steve
Junior Member Username: Steve Post Number: 68 Registered: 4-2003 |
We were back out yesterday and caught a few, a little bigger than before, the largest around 12...inches, not feet. You guys are tough. Caught the largest ones on the heads of the squid. | ||
| Harts
Advanced Member Username: Harts Post Number: 181 Registered: 10-2002 |
Is CT actually Doug2 in disguise? I thought he was the greatest fisherman alive. A ledgend in his own mind | ||
| Rcsmith
Senior Member Username: Rcsmith Post Number: 260 Registered: 4-2001 |
I went out this morning about 7am (yep...missed the tide - was too sleepy and didn't wake up! ) . Stayed there for approx 3-4 hours, and ended up with three croakers, two sandbars, one sand shark and one LARGE eel. All were caught on Perdue peeler. Not bad for keeping me busy, but didn't keep any of them! RCSmith |