Bill's Sport Shop Fishing Report

Tautog season will close Sept. 1 until Sept. 28. Puppy Drum, triggerfish and sea bass are still ready and waiting for the anglers. Flounder fishing is improving and there are croaker everywhere. The offshore tuna bite has slowed down but blue water anglers are still boating mahi mahi. We are confident that the tuna fishery will improve as the water temperature cools down.

Here are some of the reports we have received since last week:

At Massey's Landing, puppy drum and sheepshead are being caught in abundance, with fresh clams being the hot bait. Short tog are also being caught with an occasional keeper.

Croakers are being caught in the Shears by all the head boats and private boats heading to the De. Bay.

Rob Robbins caught pickerel at Burtons Pond on spinners.

A customer reported a boat next to him caught a mako, 3 bluefin and a dolphin on a temperature break at the Tea Cup.

Linda Leidhecker fished the Poor Mans Canyon and caught her first wahoo, a big 52.2 pounder.

Dominic Barvagallo, Jim Landaker, Scott Seacrest and Mike Seacrest loaded up on croaker right in front of the Bell Buoy in IRI on clams. The group also broke off 6 large sharks using spot heads for bait.

Louie Sartori and Bob Sartori caught over 100 spot in IR Bay on Fishbite bloodworms.

Louie Satori caught flounder and sea bass to 18 1/2" at A buoy on squid and mackerel fillet.

Sam Clary caught 10 blues to 20 " on a bucktail and gulp combo.

George Merrick of Fish On Charters boated 5 yellow-fin tuna, 2 white marlin and 30 baler dolphin, 30 fathoms outside the Dumpsite.

Pete Parks reported catching at least 10 speckled trout mixed in with croaker southeast of the Beachball on squid.

Jim Bell caught big spot in the canal on bloodworms.

Reece Cavanaugh caught flounder up to 3.15lbs and 22" at A Buoy on squid and minnows.

Rich and David Goodman, Tony Dispato and Bill Jr. caught 22 tog up to 6 lb at the Wall on fleas.

Jim Bell and Chris Shepherd caught a 7.25lb sheepshead at the Outer Wall on fleas.

HD Parsons called in while running in from the mouth of the De Bay to tell us he had a boat full of happy anglers on his Thelma Dale V head boat that finally had something to talk about other than throw back flounder. His anglers just loaded up on croaker. He also said that Capt Ricky on the Angler was headed in early too with the same results of croaker just by the Lighthouse at the Outer Wall. The high angler boated 75 croaker.

HD also reported that he did very good on tile fish out in the deep this last weekend and that they were also bringing big sea bass up from 300 feet deep.

Capt. Ted of Angler's Fishing Center reported catching coolers full of big croaker. He also reported small bluefish and weakfish mixed in.

Robb Larrick, Jim Cramer and Bill Weiss fished the beach at Gordons Pond Crossing scoring an occasional blue on whole mullet rigs and top and bottom rigs. They also caught small sand sharks and skates.

Nick Weist checked in with a 3.5 lb triggerfish caught on sand fleas at the Inner Wall.

Mark Januskowsky fished Massey's Landing and came away with a 4 lb puppy drum.

While at the antique car show, that is held every Tuesday night in Millsboro at the Dairy Queen, Capt. Bill ran into Captain Paul Henninger of the Amythist Charter Boat out of the IRI and he told him that he did very well bottom fishing on croaker just outside of the Inlet between the buoys.

John Rinker from West Bay Park caught a 28 inch, 8lb 9oz flounder on live spot at IRI.

Captain Bill's Radio Fishing Report

Captain Bill Baker broadcasts his daily fishing report on WGMD–92.7FM. Captain Bill's report airs daily at 7am and 5pm after the news. If at any time you miss this report, you can catch it on our home page, www.billssportshop.com and click on Bill's Daily Radio Report, on the internet! and you can now view pictures of the latest fish caught that we are reporting by going to our home page and click on Updated Fishing Pictures.

Delaware Sport Fishing Tournament

The Delaware Sport Fishing Tournament is a popular program that provides recognition patches and citations to anglers whose catch exceeds certain weight minimums for each eligible species. A companion program provides recognition patches for catch and release entries that exceed certain length minimums. For more information on the Delaware Sport Fishing Tournament, please call 302-739-9914 or visit www.fw.delaware.gov/Fisheries.htm and click on "Delaware Sport Fishing Tournament." Citations are again being issued and fish may be weighed in at Bill's Sport Shop.

General Fishing License

The Delaware State Legislature has passed and the Governor has signed into law the General Fishing License has gone into effect. With a few exceptions–this will mean that anybody fishing, clamming and crabbing in ANY Delaware waters will be required to purchase a GFL(General Fishing License). We have all the various types of licenses available in the store, and full information on the GFL on our home page www.billssportshop.com.

Bill's Sport Shop

Lewes, DE

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