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 ...

Controversy over the use of croakers as summertime speckled trout bait is based in large part on misinformation. Croakers work, but they pose no greater threat to Texas' trout population than anything ...

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 ...

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 ...

1. Unlike spot, croaker prefer strips of squid and cut bait. 2. Use longshanked No. 1 or No. 2 hooks; anything else is too much hook for these little guys. 3. Small croakers are plentiful around the ...

BAFFIN BAY — About 300-400 dozen croakers a day are being grabbed up at the Marker 37 Marina bait stand with little sign that the new five-trout limit has had much impact on guides and recreational ...

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 ...

Gulf Coast residents found the matter interesting this week.