Croakers are deadly effective on summer trout, and experts say the baitfish pose no threat to inshore fisheries. Coastal bait camps always have attracted customers with white flags to signify ...

St. Mary’s County fishing enthusiasts are navigating seasonal closures for striped bass, also known as rockfish, while enjoying robust opportunities for spot, croaker, bluefish, and other species.

All traditional tackle techniques used today began as nontraditional methods. In the timeline of angling history, free-lining live croaker is a recent development. And since the inception of using a ...

Last weekend’s weather greatly reduced the number of reports during the past seven days. Although Saturday was supposed to be decent for fishing, I ventured out to Poquoson Flats for some speckled ...

As it turns out, these seven or 10 years later, using live croakers for bait has not decimated Texas' speckled trout population. The state's most popular gamefish is in good shape and faces greater ...

During the past 20 years, the bait-stand price of juvenile croaker has doubled, more or less. A dozen of these mostly summertime baits for speckled trout has gone from $6 retail to as high as a dollar ...