IntroductionLower your rig beneath the boat and stop the line once the sinker reaches the seabed. As you wait while watching ...

Kevin Whitley finally got his silver drum. “People always laugh at me when I tell them I’m targeting croaker,” said Whitley, a 37-year-old Norfolk resident known throughout the Chesapeake Bay as ...

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 ...

BAFFIN BAY — Saltwater action seekers hooking into some of the best speckled trout battles of the year are turning to a bait that has a well-deserved reputation of giving anglers an almost unfair ...

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 ...

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 ...