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 ...

Every March, an influx of croakers fires up the speckled trout and flounder bite in the marshes of South Louisiana. The post ...

One cast landed to the right of a small rock structure and the popping cork went under for a brief second before resurfacing. The other cast -- from the same boat -- landed on the opposite side of the ...

Not so long ago that anyone has forgotten, a vocal minority of coastal fishermen in Texas told anyone who would listen that speckled trout were headed to extinction in a hand basket unless croakers ...

If there was ever a best time of the year to catch a big speckled trout, I would say that this is that time. If there was ever a best bait to use to catch that big trout, I would have to say that live ...

A mottled matrix of shoal grass swards dotted by patches of bare black mud carpeted the bottom of the flat along the Espiritu Santo Bay shoreline. We could see the marine landscape beneath the shallow ...

ROCKPORT — On any given trip to this anglers' playground, Pirates of the Bay guide Doug Stanford is quick to dip into his “arsenal” to help haul keeper speckled trout, redfish and black drum into his ...

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 ...

A smorgasbord of saline species swarmed the water over and around the submerged reef, the incoming tide triggering a rush of activity as prey and predator jockeyed for advantage under the changing ...

Just when you think you have the whole summer fishing thing figured out the darn things move (or don’t show up). For years, we have had some decent fishing for panfish such as croakers in the late ...