Trophy Croaker
 

Found this pic somewhere,thought it was pretty cool. Use that big daddy for trout bait!

that would be a sweet mount!!

Wow.

Fry dat up wit some taters!!!

Are They really good to eat

Yes. Croakers are clean white meat.
Not sure about one that big though.
I only eat small ones. Fillets look like
tater chips.

Croaker are very good to eat. Fry the small ones whole like a bream.

bull croaker

Grand dad and his podnas used to catch them.....not quite like that, but big enough to fillet.
Good eating fish.
We have caught a few this summer big enough to keep at the mouth of Manchac pass and P-train......

That is a dang monster though.

I bet that fish was a fight....the little ones fight like hell, I can only imagine a big one.

They used to call em breakfast croaker. croaker filets w/ eggs and biscuts.

mmmmmmm mmmmm goood.
I should go back to Croaker fishing, My freezer was always full. I've been trying the artifishal thang and my freezer is lonely!!! LOL

Yea a mount of that would be cool.

Gulp catches them. I caught a ton of them on gulp fishing in v. bay. If nothing else is biting and I want some feesh,croaker stinks the pot just as good. :D

LSU reef was full of Croaker a couple months ago.
Caught them on Sand Eels.

We caught a bunch of them Saturday in P Train. I got a full gallon bag of fillets off dem dudes!

that was caught in the chesapeake bay in virginia a few years ago..i was living there and remember it well..i think its the world record croaker..

its nothing to catch 2 to 3lb croaker there..they call them "horse croaker" they fun to catch..they fight like lil horses lol

If I get on some croaker while fishing, I'm not moving. They are great eating!

Yep, when the trout aint bighting I go to the Hammock in VB and put on a tiny jig head and a small piece of dead shrimp and its usually all the croaker you feel like cleaning. Last year i got home and took a 20lb. ice back out the boat full of croaker to clean. The wife came over and took a look and said I thought you were going catch specks and reds not bream:redface:.

that should be mounted.

found the news article on it..

http://hamptonroads.com/node/312171

Always gotta skretch them arms....even on a world record croaker. :rolleyes:

Dang that thing is huge, never seen one that big.

Have never seen a croaker that big that's really nice fish...my friend's grandpa and used to catch some around 5 lbs offshore. Another friend's dad used to catch some big ones too offshore all the time

Caught some real nice ones last weekend, but nothing like that. that's a monster. I caught 8 of them around 15-17 inches.

That pic was from the Chesapeake Bay area in Virginia if I recall.
I've caught some big ones about 12 -13 inches in the surf the last couple times I've gone to Galveston along w/ some hoss channel mullet/whiting up to 20 inches. They all looked like small reds at first. All of em are great eating.

I agree. Always happy to put croaker in the box. And if they're too small to fillet, then they're about right for bait.

Dats a big Croak

I'd mount that big sucker