2016 Fishing Report

[Minuteman]

Looks like a painting..

Roger that.

Is now my desktop image. Wish I had the full sized image.

 

[Sticky]

Couple of good days jiggin up some nice stripers. The fish are spread around now, went out late yesterday and boxed four (2 of us), a couple in the mid 20's and then went out with another buddy this morning with a friend and his two young sons up from Hawaii.. had a stellar morning, limiting out by 10am..

Three over 24" one close to 28... all on light tackle jigs..

 

[wilcam47]

I spent about 12 hours total this past weekend surf fishing in Del. Caught two sharks, a kingfish, a skate, and a seagull that got tangled in my line.

Dont Steve Irwin yourself...

 

[mckraut]

Fished Loch Raven from a boat yesterday. My bro snagged a nice bass and I managed a micro pike.

 

[jeffie7]

Fished Loch Raven from a boat yesterday. My bro snagged a nice bass and I managed a micro pike.

Grabbing a fish from the mouth always looks easy, but for some reason whenever I do it, they struggle like hell. I always have to apply the death grip or they just sand down my thumb lol

 

[wilcam47]

I guess thats not the "real" way you are supposed to hold them but I just hold them like that for a photo op then put them back in the water...unless they are messed up and then it doesnt matter.

 

[kstone803]

We fished the Pax down off base on Friday and crushed croaker and perch until the storm blew in. Then Saturday up by the 231 bridge all the way down to Clarke's Landing we boated three total fish in six hours. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But speaking of winning me and a few buddies are fishing a white perch tournament out of Tall Timbers this Saturday. Hoping to boat some big ones!

 

[pbharvey]

My son went out last night with some buddies and caught about 50 croakers in the lower Potomac.
What's the best way to prepare these?

 

[kstone803]

My son went out last night with some buddies and caught about 50 croakers in the lower Potomac.
What's the best way to prepare these?

Fillet them, lightly batter with House Autrey then oven fry for fish tacos. Or fillet, wrap in foil with lemon and pepper and grill. Just about anything you can think of. But with that many I would definitely fillet them. Way faster than cleaning them whole

 

[pbharvey]

Thank you.
I could eat 50 fish tacos without coming up for air.

 

[Overboost44]

Or don't even filet them. Remove head and guts. Scale them. Wrap in foil with your favorite seasonings and some butter. Croaker is one of my favorite eating fish, next to Wahoo, Tuna, and Mahi.

 

[protegeV]

50 fish! Damn.

We're at the Delaware beach this week. Took the boys out for some ocean fishing. Caught a few flounder, sea bass, and sea robin.

 

[remrug]

My son went out last night with some buddies and caught about 50 croakers in the lower Potomac.
What's the best way to prepare these?

Be careful....they have sharp gill plates.An electric fillet knife makes short work of them.If I get a bunch of them,I make fish cakes with some.....yummy

 

[pbharvey]

Thanks for the tips on the croaker. I ended up getting home a little late from work so I put a blob of butter in each one, hit it with some spices and grilled them in foil packets. Everyone was on board with the taste but a few complained about the bones. Served them with some jasmine rice with coconut milk and cilantro, and a medley of sauteed tomatoes/onions/zucchini. It made for a nice meal.

 

[wilcam47]

My son went out last night with some buddies and caught about 50 croakers in the lower Potomac.
What's the best way to prepare these?

fillet then debone and make nugget sized pieces, beer batter or cornmeal batter and deep fry til golden brown and enjoy!

 

[rsj1231]

Would you guys recommend something like this to start out? I checked out the local Walmart but honestly don't know what's good for the price. Some of my coworkers said to check out Amazon and this one has a lot of good reviews.

I only plan on fishing around Loch Raven or around my area in HarCo.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01D...&psc=1#mobile-twister_size_name_1468886937217

 

[Jason21237]

Would you guys recommend something like this to start out? I checked out the local Walmart but honestly don't know what's good for the price. Some of my coworkers said to check out Amazon and this one has a lot of good reviews.

I only plan on fishing around Loch Raven or around my area in HarCo.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01D...&psc=1#mobile-twister_size_name_1468886937217

Go to walmart and grab an Ugly stick kit. For like 30 bucks you will be good to go on most fish being caught from the shore around here.

 

[ChrisD]

Been pretty good fishing going on still on the upper bay. We've been busy lately, not much free time to post. Had this group two days in a row. They were a group of very good fisherman. They caught a limit and released many for two good days of old guy action. Only have pictures from Sunday, somehow missed getting a shot of Monday, when we actually had a larger grade of fish.

 

[ChrisD]

Family group from a few days ago.

 

[ChrisD]

Father and son trip, while they were in town from South Carolina. We did a trolling trip, these two guys caught 37 fish in three hours.