Details: Blue Catfish
73*F sunny with a light breeze. Hit the river this morning with my lil buddy. Fishing on an outgoing tide. Managed to catch 4 in about 45 mins. Heading back tomorrow ...more morning with the cooler!!
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Details: Atlantic Croaker
Had a blast again yesterday morning putting my nephews onto a ton of fish. Brought the cooler this time and my parents had a nice fish fry last night.
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Details: American Shad
Once again my son comes through with the catch of the day. A nice American Shad...something else to add to the list a species caught!! I cast the line out a few ...more feet from shore for him, he turned the handle a couple times and the set it by my feet haha. A few minutes later I saw the line go tight and told him to come grab it. He started to reel and as it came close to the surface I noticed it
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Tim Knecht 0@seaturtles I've used Spot for bait a lot...works great in other areas but never produced anything at this pier for me.
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Sean Wilms 0him or some of those spot and croaker, never no what you might pull up
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Tim Knecht 0@seaturtles well dang I should of chunk him up for bait haha!!
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Sean Wilms 0I was at the pier on the Atlantic Ocean on Monday and we were snagging those menhaden and using them as bait, I even caught a shark off one of them, very sure that's ...more what it is
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Sean Wilms 0they look very similar to American Shad but I'm 99% sure that's a menhaden (bunker) especially with the big drawbridge door like mouth for filter feeding ...more that they have
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Tim Knecht 0new species for us to catch!
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Tim Knecht 0@seaturtles hmmm I've used Bunker for bait quite a few times and they never quite looked like this that's why I leaned towards the Shad as it looks very ...more similar to the American. Either way it was a
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Sean Wilms 0actually my friend that is a menhaden, also called bunker over by me. I've been seeing a lot of those around too, great baitfish
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Tim Knecht 0was different than anything we caught here before. He was stoked and so was I! Hopefully we will get to catch some more!!
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Details: Atlantic Croaker
Between all their catches I managed to land a few nice ones myself. Caught a few nice Croaker and Spot. I went for the deeper approach casting out to the edge of ...more a deeper pocket and reeling back until the line came tight. Had a hard time keeping bait on the hook as most bites came soon after setting the bait and I had a full plate helping the boys manage their catches haha! Was an awesome time!!
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Details: White Perch
My nephews are down with my parents for a week and they are some fishing fiends just like their Uncle. So today we grabbed a couple bags of Bloodworms and hit Chaptico ...more Wharf. They slayed em this morning. Proud Uncle to put them on so many fish today. Here's a few of their better catches. They had a ton of luck just dropping right off the edge of the pier. Found a couple honey holes and were
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Fishing on incoming tide. Sunny and in the high 70's. Tomorrow we are bringing a cooler...today we passed on a bunch of keepers to a couple on the pier not having ...more much luck.
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hooking one right after another. They caught around 15 or more fish a piece in just a couple hours. A ton of Perch, couple Spot, & a crazy amount of juvenile ...more Striped Bass and one nicer one.
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Gorgeous morning on the pier with my lil buddy. Sunny in the mid 70's with a nice breeze. Fishing on outgoing tide. The boat lift wasn't producing today ...more so we fished the opposite side of the pier. He caught a nice Perch while I caught a mix of Perch, Spot and a few nice keeper Croakers. Found a deeper pocket and tried keeping the bait right on the edge. Produced a ton of bites for us.
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Details: Atlantic Stingray
Morning started out nice with my lil buddy...partly cloudy with a nice breeze and outgoing tide when we showed up around 8am at Chaptico Wharf. Within a couple hours ...more the bite started to heat up and it became a scorcher pushing 90*F & up. We toughed it out for as long as we good but the heat got to be too much for my buddy. Brought in a nice mix though with the Ray being the bite of the day.
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Details: Spotfin Croaker
Once again it was another great therapy session with my buddy. We had a blast, made friends, spread the Crew love and even shared our catches, bait, and stories. ...more Caught a great mixed bag of fish. Tried out and succeeded with our home made minnow trap....although we lost it after my son accidentally knocked it in the water once I packed it up haha. Good times though!
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@Drew72 you got that right brotha!! Couple empty 2 liters and I'll have another one haha!
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Details: Hybrid Striped Bass
Trophies of the morning but not trophy size haha! Once again made some well placed casts under the boat lift this time with some minnow that I caught in a homemade ...more minnow trap and cut into chunks. Next time I'm going to try a different set up and live line em to see if I can get into something larger. These guys were some good fighters and a blast to catch. Tide was about slack and the bite was
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i want a blue shirt
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all but dead when these guys took the bait. After that we caught 1 other small Perch in the last 45 mins before heading out.
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Details: Channel Catfish
Got a couple casts in right under the boat lift in a deeper pocket and pulled on these Cats. The one on the right is the Channel and I believe the one on the left ...more is a Mud Cat but not to sure. Was brownish in color with a wider head. Both smaller than I was hoping for but put up a nice lil fight!
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