Summer 2024
I was fortunate to spend alot of the summer fishing my favorite waters from the East Coast in Delaware to the mountains of West Virginia to the lakes and streams of Michigan and Illinois.
Some of my highlights of the summer include catching two invasive species. One inhabiting to Lake Michigan, called a Round Goby, was not larger than a shiner. It looked like something from a deep ocean trench and puzzled fellow fishermen when I posted a picture.
The other invasive species I landed -a first for me- was a Northern Snakehead. An invasive prehistoric looking creature native to Asia and Africa has some serious teeth. For some time, I had known a certain stream in Delaware that I'd fished my whole life had a population of snakehead and this bugger grabbed the whole night crawler and provided excellent sport and tablefare. It's white flaky meat delighted my family that evening for dinner. You have to google this fish if you have never seen one before. It's some interesting reading too. Did you know they can live for some time out of water?
As we go into the last month of summer, I'm remembering other highlights like catching Sea Bass and fishing with my dad and sons on Indian River Bay in Delaware. Also a nice time fishing a pristine West Virginia quarry for beautiful Small Mouth Bass. As well, I caught several blue claw crab off my local dock and steamed them up with old bay and butter. In homage to the hit song about Blue Claw Crabs, I suppose.
In what's becoming a family tradition, I also made a point to take my sons many a morning to our favorite local honey holes on the Appoquinimink River for Catfish and Croaker, as well as White Clay Creek for Rock Bass and Smallmouth. We caught live leeches for bait as well as crayfish.
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Oh yeah and one more thing... I just got a bass boat! Hope to fill you in on some new adventures and fishing tales back here again real soon!
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