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Me and a buddy decided to give Solomons a try this week. We made an afternoon / evening run for croakers and what ever else decided to jump on the hook. The Yaks got wet around 3:30 PM and we made a paddle to below the bridge and started some drifts about 200 Yards away from the public pier.
I was using Squid on a single dropper bottom rig and jigging a Gulp jerk shad. My buddy was using two single dropper bottom rigs with squid.We keyed in on the channel edge ranging from 35ft to 20ft. Fishing was really slow with the occasional Toad fish here and there. This would be a forewarning of the days events. We made several long drifts from the public pier past the burned down commercial pier with no signs of croakers. There were occasional lone bluefish around 8" long jumping around us. I marked lots of bait but could not jig any up.
We paddled back to the ramp around 5:30 pm to take a break and buy some blood worms. At 6:00 pm we headed above the bridge to try our luck on the channel edge in that area.
Luis caught a 11" croaker on a blood worm right off the Bat which was a good sign. I stuck with the squid and jig because I'm funny like that and eventually pulled in a nice 13" hard-head. The story of the day was Toad Fish. We must have caught 75 of them between the two of us. Little ones, Big ones, Dark ones and Lite ones.
Around 7:30pm i got a slight tap, tug and a head shake on the jig. No way this might be a flounder i thought. Well it was not a flounder but a hefty you guessed it, Toad Fish.
I caught another dozen or so toad fish on the jig. I did manage one striper around 12" on the jig but every other tug on it was a toad fish. Luis caught several spot and white perch on the bloods and we ended the day keeping 12 nice sized croakers.
We got off the water at 9:00pm when i could not stand taking the ugly, slimy ill mannered pukes off my hook anymore. I'm so sick of toad fish now.
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I was using Squid on a single dropper bottom rig and jigging a Gulp jerk shad. My buddy was using two single dropper bottom rigs with squid.We keyed in on the channel edge ranging from 35ft to 20ft. Fishing was really slow with the occasional Toad fish here and there. This would be a forewarning of the days events. We made several long drifts from the public pier past the burned down commercial pier with no signs of croakers. There were occasional lone bluefish around 8" long jumping around us. I marked lots of bait but could not jig any up.
We paddled back to the ramp around 5:30 pm to take a break and buy some blood worms. At 6:00 pm we headed above the bridge to try our luck on the channel edge in that area.
Luis caught a 11" croaker on a blood worm right off the Bat which was a good sign. I stuck with the squid and jig because I'm funny like that and eventually pulled in a nice 13" hard-head. The story of the day was Toad Fish. We must have caught 75 of them between the two of us. Little ones, Big ones, Dark ones and Lite ones.
Around 7:30pm i got a slight tap, tug and a head shake on the jig. No way this might be a flounder i thought. Well it was not a flounder but a hefty you guessed it, Toad Fish.
I caught another dozen or so toad fish on the jig. I did manage one striper around 12" on the jig but every other tug on it was a toad fish. Luis caught several spot and white perch on the bloods and we ended the day keeping 12 nice sized croakers.
We got off the water at 9:00pm when i could not stand taking the ugly, slimy ill mannered pukes off my hook anymore. I'm so sick of toad fish now.
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did well with bws and shrimp at claiborne quite a few i wont call them horse but pony croakers a couple 17+
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