Jeff Taviano's Delaware Regional Fishing Report
OCEAN
The Delaware Division of Fish & Wildlife will begin offering collectible award lapel pins to anglers for trophy catches this year. There will also be a “Delaware Elite Angler” award. Snakeheads and cobia will be added to the list of catches eligible for citations. The minimum qualifying weight for cobia will be 45 pounds, and the Live Release Awards program minimum length is 48 inches. For snakeheads, the minimum qualifying weight required for recognition is eight pounds. Any size limit may be submitted for snakeheads, however, no live release awards will be given for snakeheads.
Chip Graves, Bill Low, and Matt Baker landed a nice 204-pound swordfish at the Norfolk Canyon. Anglers are still catching limits of tog at Site 11. Most anglers have been using green crab as bait. Reports of a few small stripers were caught at the Indian River Inlet near the Coast Guard Station, but nothing close to keeper size.
DELAWARE BAY
The Woodland Beach Pier continues to provide decent white perch action with earthworms serving as the best bait.
RIVERS
White Clay Flyfishers will be having a six-week fly fishing class from Feb. 14 through April 4. The fee is $25. To sign up go to whiteclayflyfishers.org, or email whiteclayflyfishers@yahoo.com or call Joe at 302-547-6612.
Yellow perch are still biting in Maryland on the Susquehanna River near Port Deposit, and Perryville. Nightcrawlers have been effective on the yellow perch. Yellow perch have been off and on at Broad Creek. Weather pending, the fish have will bite in numbers one day, and not touch the bait the next. Taylored Tackle reported crappie at the Laurel Spillway. Anglers have been using minnows and small jigs. Anglers have begun catching white perch in the Nanticoke River with bloodworms working as the best bait.
PONDS
Patty at Captain Bones Bait & Tackle reported decent crappie action on minnows and crappie jigs at Garrisons Lake. A few bass have been caught at Garrisons on minnows as well. Ed Raymond landed a 4-pound pickerel at Derby Pond on a tube jig. He also caught a few smaller ones.
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