July 4th Weekend!! Is it here already?
Kingfish, spot, sand perch and croakers on the beach. Funny thing is there are no bluefish around to speak of in the suds. The kingfish are in the 13-14 inch range. They are htting on bloodworms and small chunks of fresh bunker. The croakers and spot are small but fun. Use bloodworms - fake or real.
Thomas Rolando, of Ellicot City MD, weighed a citation kingfish tipping the scales at 1 pound 2 ounces and measuring 14 inches. The croakers and spot are small, but a good sign of things to come. Small pieces of bloodworm are good for spot and croaker. Try a sibiki rig for the spot. Just in time for the July 4th Holiday weekend.
Live spot are here and they stripers are eating them like candy. Your best bet for a daytime striper is get in your boat or find a friend with a boat and drop a spot to the bottom of the Inlet. The best drift is the rip in front of the Coast Guard station on incoming tide. Or you can fish the end of both rockpiles on the start of outgoing water.
Along the rocks and railing the heat and boat traffic have driven the stripers deep in the Indian River Inlet. Live eels, rigged eels, black bucktails, and dark colored swim shads are the best baits with incoming water being the preferred tide.
Quite a few citation stripers to report. Larry Fike (Howard PA) gets top honors this week with a 30 pounder. Tom Lynch (Georgetown DE), Burt Campbell (Dagsboro DE), Nicky Miller (Harrisonburg VA) and Leonard Gettle (Richland PA) all posted stripers ranging from 20 to 23 pounds.
Daytime rockpile jockies will find snapper blues on the incoming water in the Indian River Inlet. These fish are not picky eaters. They will hit anything like a spoon, metal cast lure, bucktail, Gotcha Plug. If you cant catch them do yourself a favor and dont admit it in public.
Good news for tautog lovers. The Delaware season will reopen on Tuesday July 1. We plan to have a full stock of green crabs and live sand fleas. The regulations will be 14 inches and ten fish a day.
The flounder bite is starting to pickup just offshore. The big flounder will move out of the bays to cooler offshore waters in the summer months. Gary Klabon, of Ocean View, landed an nice 8 pound 6oz doormat out at B Buoy.
A good tuna bite continues in the Hambone area. Capt. Tom Murphy on MEGA-BITE charters submitted a new pic this week. Check it out!!!
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Rehobeth Beach, Delaware
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