Species: Yellowfin Croaker (Umbrina roncador) Location: Torrey Pines State Park, California Date: August 7, 2018 Even though the last post included the same link, I’m posting it here again. Read it here. Please consider subscribing to my weekly column and access my past columns for as low as $1 per month by clicking “Become a Patron”…
Read moreSpecies #176 —Spotfin Croaker
Species: Spotfin Croaker (Roncador stearnsii) Location: Torrey Pines State Park, California Date: August 7, 2018 I haven’t been published in many big, national magazines, but there was a brief stint where I wrote for Game & Fish before they consolidated their writer pool and fired the previous editor I’d worked for. Kinda disappointing, but I made…
Read moreSpecies #156 — Gulf Kingfish
Species: Gulf Kingfish (Menticirrhus littoralis) Location: Saint Petersburg, Florida Date: July 14, 2018 After spending most of the day fishing at two separate piers and finding plenty of fish but little in the way of species variety, I opted to move to the outer edges of Tampa Bay. I found myself not far from Saint…
Read moreSpecies #97 — Atlantic Croaker
Species: Atlantic Croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) Location: Graffiti Bridge, Pensacola, FL Date: August 1, 2017 Here’s the unsung hero of my Pensacola trip. These things fought like crazy, and I could always tell I’d hooked another Atlantic Croaker if it fought like crazy and made my imagination run wild. All of the Atlantic Croaker I caught were less…
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