When a fish is swimming around it is fishing and when it is eating it is catching. Because fish also fish, I mean they have to right? Sometimes other fish will go after your fish when you are reeling it in, this happens often. It happens in the surf a lot with sharks hitting bluefish and kingfish. Big bluefish are notorious for stealing catches or at least the good half of the catch. That is how fish help one another, they see another fish in distress and they eat them. From the potential frying pan into the fire so to speak. Yesterday Greg Hinkle and his buddies were at the old grounds and a cobia helped itself to their flounder. “We lost two fish to the cobia, then we tossed bait at it on a line afterwards and manged to catch it, then released it.”
Bluefish have been decent in the surf the past few days in the late afternoon along Delaware Seashore state park. T.C. Dean and his buddies have had decent action the past few days. The blues are hitting mullet on mullet rigs. You can catch fresh mullet around the inland bays. The only stores that have had any as far as I have been told is Dan’s Tackle Box. He gets in many a dozen and they are gone fast so call ahead. Otherwise it is cast nets and hitting the flats and tidal creeks of the inland bays.
Pompano action has been hot the past two days in the surf and still is today as well as kingfish.
Lot of white marlins being caught in the northern canyons the last few days. The bite has been off the hook. The docks at Ocean City are flying a lot of flags. Just in time for the White Marlin Open.
Night time short striped bass action under the lights around the inland bays has been excellent. Use top water plugs or small swim shads. Crabbing is excellent in the bays as well. Lot of full pots, trot lines, and hand lines. Have a great weekend.
Fish On!!’
Rich King