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FM Talk Fishing Report 8-22-24
And it is time for the FM Talk 1065 Fish and Report brought to you by McCoy Outdoor Company and McConnell Buick GMC. And my man, Captain Bobby Eberskato from 18 Fish and Adventures. Hey, Bobby. Hey, good morning. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm fine because we get to talk about fishing croakers as well. Looking forward to this weekend here, getting out and we hadn't talked about it this year, but people who always use shrimp, why should they even bother with a croaker? Well, this is the time of the year. Like you just said, this is the time of year. If you're going to use croakers and you want to use croakers, this is the time of the year to do it. And for some reason, if you ever figure it out, let me know if anybody knows. But this is about the only time of the year, the hot months when the trout get the hankering for croakers. You can put one on in March or April or October or November when the trout are eating everything else and the dang croakers die on the end of the hook. You know, it's like, but for some reason, when it's hot like this, they love to eat them. And so if you're going to, you know, be fishing during these hot months, particularly the hottest ones like we're in right now, man, it's a great bait of choice. You can buy them at the bait shops, other bait shops, carry them, or you can catch your own, which I prefer to do, but you can buy them. And one tip I'll give you when you do buy them, make sure when you get them that they're not halfway floating in red-tailed and red-bellied, don't waste your money there. They charge quite a bit for them. They're very effective baits because they're, you know, usually when you get bit on a croaker, it's something that you want to catch. You'll catch a shark or a bluefish with it. But typically it's something so, you know, if you got 30 or 40 croakers versus 30 or 40 shrimp, you know, you're going to get quality by some of the majority of those, but make sure that those croakers are good quality croakers. You don't want them swimming sideways and have red tails and red-bellies. Don't waste your money on those. And when you do get some good ones, make sure you treat them right. One of the things that croakers really like is some current in your live well. Typically when I'm using shrimp, I just run bulbers. But when I'm using croakers, I run up, go ahead and run my research and turn it at about a 45 degree angle, so it's creating some current in that live well. And that's what really keeps those croakers alive. They like to swim into the current. And so I'll get you a little bit of current going in there, as well as your bulb or suit. And then the most importantly is keep that water cool. You're going to spend a lot of money on there, or a lot of time catching them, or a lot of money buying them. You want to make sure they stay alive and want the big things to go ahead and keep that water real cool just by throwing some bags, baggies of ice in there. You can throw frozen water bottles in there and get that water cool. Those things live until something eats them. Yeah, I mean, that thing about, you know, putting, cooling it down for them, it just lets that water carry so much more oxygen, right? You and I've talked about it over time. That's exactly what it does. That's what it's really doing for them is, you know, holding that dissolved oxygen in the water. And that's what really keeps those croakers good and alive. You know, and then when you bait them up, you know, if you're going to use them on a single hook, like I call a tight line or a free line, and you're fishing a current situation, what you want to do is just hook them through the top lip. Don't hook them through both lips. People, I've heard people tell people of, you know, hook them, I just hook them through the top lip. And when you hook them, just make sure you hook just enough croaker to get to make your cast. You want that hook coming out of that croaker when the fish bites. You know, if you're coming back after you've gotten a bite, you still got the croaker on the hook and you've missed the fish, you're hooking the croaker too deep. You want that hook to come out of the croaker. So, you know, just take it. And then when you do get it baited up, you're going to throw a couple off, you know, you're going to throw a couple off cast, but you can just make your, you can just make your cast gentle enough to get it out there, even if you have to feed out a little bit of the line, you're going to find out that you're more, a lot more efficient at hooking fish when you get the bites there. If you're barely getting that hook into that croaker's lip, man, you got me fired up for a tight line and free lining croakers this weekend. I love the band. I know you love it too, man. I do. I do. If somebody wants to get a trip booked with you to fish now, or gosh, we're not, you know, just a couple three, four months, we'll actually be back in fall. If anybody get a trip book now for fishing now or in the future, how they do that? Just go to 18 fishing.com. That's our website. And it's got our trip information on there, as well as that beat the heat special. So if you want to get a trip in before we start getting into this fall, whether we got a good, really good, cool four hour short and trip, get out, get your, get, you know, get, get to fish the best part of the day and get back in before it gets nasty and hot. I love it. Captain Bobby, we appreciate it. We'll talk again next week. All right. Thanks, my friend. Have a good weekend. You too. There goes Captain Bobby with the FM talk. One of six five fishing report brought you by McCoy outdoor company and McConnell Buick GMC.