artificial bait for croakers?

[keakar]

Originally Posted by Sightwindow

I'm glad I don't fish around where you're fishing. I hardly ever see recreational trawling in the cocodrie/dulac area. Very happy about it, too.

a lot of that is because its just not worth the gas for trying right now but let them start catching shrimp in decent size and numbers and they will be out there again.

on opening day of trawling season every year I find myself hoping the shrimp will be small in size and numbers so they leave the shrimping to the offshore and commercial fishermen so they aren't dirtying up the water in my favorite areas to find the specks.

im kinda side tracking my own thread here lol

but anywho... I was just speculating on why and how what seams to be a thriving and very abundant fish species seams to have an almost 100% mortality rate once it gets barely big enough to be of decent fillet size