1. Unlike spot, croaker prefer strips of squid and cut bait. 2. Use longshanked No. 1 or No. 2 hooks; anything else is too much hook for these little guys. 3. Small croakers are plentiful around the ...

FLOUR BLUFF — Hooking into a 4-inch croaker fresh from the live well, guide Scott Hibbetts appeared to be unconcerned as a brisk 20 mile per hour wind bounced his boat anchored about 15 minutes from ...

Croakers are deadly effective on summer trout, and experts say the baitfish pose no threat to inshore fisheries. Coastal bait camps always have attracted customers with white flags to signify ...

As it turns out, these seven or 10 years later, using live croakers for bait has not decimated Texas' speckled trout population. The state's most popular gamefish is in good shape and faces greater ...

Fish Lines What's the Catch? Washington & Vicinity POTOMAC RIVER -- The river's upper reaches provided good smallmouth bass fishing until last weekend, when torrential rains caused the river to rise ...

POTOMAC RIVER -- At Lander, good catches of smallmouth bass were made between the Brunswick bridge and Bald Eagle Island. Tube lures were still the most productive, but trico hatches produced red-hot ...

Last week, while headed south toward the mouth of the Choptank, the alarm on the fish finder sounded repeatedly while crossing Tolly Point Bar. With our minds set on catching black drum at the Stone ...