Holliday's World Famous Fishing Thread - 2026 Version

[Lotte Skoring]

Got the first of my Krocodiles today.
... It was the pink ones - so appropriate to the day.
Should be getting the balance of my orders within the next 4 days.
So far, I rate this winter as...SUCKS.
..so little things like this count.

 

[oldslowandugly]

My grandson is visiting. We got a lot of work done on the fish board. I used four 2x3 sections to reinforce the underside. Glued and screwed. After that cures we will seal and paint it. This is going well. It will be big enough to almost cover the top of the dock box. The last one was a bit narrow and fish would slide off. I need to get down to the dock to take some measurements. I am upgrading the charging system for the boat battery. I am sure the docks are covered in ice right now, like everything else.

 

[Lotte Skoring]

My grandson is visiting. We got a lot of work done on the fish board. I used four 2x3 sections to reinforce the underside. Glued and screwed. After that cures we will seal and paint it. This is going well. It will be big enough to almost cover the top of the dock box. The last one was a bit narrow and fish would slide off. I need to get down to the dock to take some measurements. I am upgrading the charging system for the boat battery. I am sure the docks are covered in ice right now, like everything else.

Wear your crampons.

. Meant to ask - do the Krocodiles in the larger sizes you use come new with the red plastic dangler piece on them? Do you leave those on or remove them? I have no idea if they add strikes but they seem cheap and fruity so I tend to eliminate them. Thots?

 

[oldslowandugly]

No crampons. I gave up jetty jockeying many moons go. I stay on the sand now. The only Krocs that had the red thingy were in the smaller sizes. Johnson's Sprite had them too as well as some other things like small skirts. At one ounce it is just a treble hook with a single barb hook included in case you want to change, as I do.

As far as attractors go I am as guilty as anyone thinking they help. I use glow skirts on all my Fluke rigs. I use grubs, worms, and tails on my lead heads. My buddy and I used all kinds of fancy crap on our rigs thinking it was better. Then my old Polish neighbor would out fish us with a bare hook. Very humiliating.

More snow last night. But this week should melt most of it away with rain and warm weather.

 

[oldslowandugly]

Remember you saying you got some Striped Bass way up by you? I have a Salt Water Sportsman book about Striped Bass. The Delaware Bay and River used to be a big Striper source until pollution screwed that all up. They said spawning used to occur from Philadelphia as far North as Port Jervis. Since the 80's they have been working to clean it up. They say that the Stripers are actually spawning again in Delaware Bay near Philadelphia. They also stated that the fish can roam up to 150/200 miles inland. Some have been recorded on both the East and West branches of the Delaware. So those fish you caught were not strangers.

 

[Lotte Skoring]

Remember you saying you got some Striped Bass way up by you? I have a Salt Water Sportsman book about Striped bass. The Delaware Bay and River used to be a big Striper source until pollution screwed that all up. They said spawning used to occur from Philadelphia as far North as Port Jervis. Since the 80's they have been working to clean it up. They say that the Stripers are actually spawning again in Delaware Bay near Philadelphia. They also stated that the fish can roam up to 150/200 miles inland. Some have been recorded on both the East and West branches of the Delaware. So those fish you caught were not strangers.

I had heard about them being caught up this way for some years but have only caught them the last 3 years.
I have recently heard of them going up as far as the Roebling bridge where the Lackawaxen flows into the Delaware (Lackawaxen PA).