croaker season

[kayak456]

hello all...i have not been on here or a while now so i figured i should post something. so usually every year i begin to catch 10-20inch stripers in the south river in early April with bloodworms. and late april all the way through to early June i catch croakers off my pier. but many people do not think there is croakers in late April even though late April and early may is the best time in the south river. so i tied up about a dozen bottom rigs and tied them on 4 of my spinning rods and then one bait caster (Calcutta). i will be using blood worms bottom and fish bites top,so be expecting a report soon.

-Andrew

[tufnik]

Yeah, let us know. With the somewhat warm weather we're having, maybe the croakers will come in sooner than usual. I hope so. I haven't had fried croaker fillets since last Fall.

[J.A. Veil]

hello all...i have not been on here or a while now so i figured i should post something. so usually every year i begin to catch 10-20inch stripers in the south river in early April with bloodworms. and late april all the way through to early June i catch croakers off my pier. but many people do not think there is croakers in late April even though late April and early may is the best time in the south river. so i tied up about a dozen bottom rigs and tied them on 4 of my spinning rods and then one bait caster (Calcutta). i will be using blood worms bottom and fish bites top,so be expecting a report soon.

-Andrew

I don't catch them on the mid-bay bars (Tolleys, Hacketts, Thomas Pt, etc) until mid-June. If you are finding them in April, that is great. Let us know when you find them.

[DOGFISH]

I'm just glad your still in school, so there are some fish left for the rest of us to catch.

[kevinfry]

I'm just glad your still in school, so there are some fish left for the rest of us to catch.

Yeah, I hope school doesn't get out till mid June...I am taking vacation the second week.

[Foursteps24]

Keep your eyes and ears open. Last year MetroMan and myself caught some nice croaker at North Beach in April last year. We heard of them being caught and thought it was definately too early especially up this far in the bay. We had nothing to do so we decided to try our hand at the pier where they "said" they were being caught. As we walked up on the pier a croaker was coming over the rail during daylight. As we waited for the sun to drop sure enough our rods were slamming with nice croaker. The following week we took the kayaks out of Chesapeake Beach and headed towards North Beach where we slayed them again. First time since Ive been fishing Ive seen nice numbers of Croaker this far up that early. MetroMan posted our report on here if you all would like to look it up. Definately a possibility of early croaker as this winter was much milder than last.

[Foursteps24]

http://www.snaggedline.com/showthread.php?t=1027

[MDFishin]

My parents live 5 min from Chesapeake Beach, Definitely keep us informed. I will go home in a heartbeat for some croaker action.

[MetroMan]

http://www.snaggedline.com/showthread.php?t=1027

Ha, I almost forgot all about that trip! It won't be much longer with this mild winter...

[kayak456]

i have never tried fishing for them in march but i looked at the info of the picture i took last year and first one caught was april 3rd and i got 31 on april 3rd so it was great,and none were smaller than 10.most in the 10-12 range but the biggest was 14.5,i checked my log

[moc]

I have also caught horse croakers in April at the Choptank River peir many years ago. With the warm winter, who knows how this year will shape up.