It's not too late to catch drum

OCEAN

The Indian River Inlet has produced bluefish, and the occasional keeper rockfish on lures this week. The blues are still being caught in the Indian River and Rehoboth Bays on bunker. Jack and Jason Austin brought 5 blues to the Lewes Harbour Marina. They were using mullet at Cape Henlopen. A few flounder were caught at Massey’s Ditch on minnows, a good sign compared to last year at this time. Charter boats are having success on sea bass with many boats limiting out.

DELAWARE BAY

I fished the Cape Henlopen fishing pier last Friday, and while the action wasn’t what it was a couple weeks ago, I still managed four nice bluefish with the biggest around 7 pounds on bunker. Coyte Searcey and John Skinner checked in at the Lewes Harbour Marina after catching 10 bluefish from the pier on spoons and poppers. Black drum are still being caught in the lower bay. Matt Garrison landed a 55 pounder off Slaughter Beach at Coral Cove. Chris and Joe Huk pulled in a 46, and 26-pound black drum at the Coral Beds. A few keeper rockfish were caught on bunker at the Yellow Can and at Collins Beach. White perch and catfish are still being caught in numbers at Augustine Beach, and Woodland Beach with bloodworms catching the perch, and bunker working well on the catfish. Harvey Straughn and Jim Frazier checked in at Captain Bones Bait & Tackle after catching a number of white perch and short stripers north of Woodland Beach on bloodworms.

RIVERS

Bluefish are still being caught in the Broadkill River. Paulie Kulesza Jr. and Grant McGuigan fished near the Roosevelt Inlet and brought home 3 bluefish caught on poppers, and a flounder that they caught on gulp. A few more flounder were caught this week in the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal with minnows doing the most damage. Aidan Hudson brought two keeper doormats to the Lewes Harbour Marina from the canal that he caught with a minnow. Mason Newsham and Jack Ostroski also found keeper flounder in the canal. Kenny Holland brought in a 7-pound catfish to Captain Bones. He caught the fish on a nightcrawler at the Appoquinimink River.

PONDS

Anglers are catching largemouth bass and crappie at Noxontown Pond. The bass are biting on frogs, senkos, and spinnerbaits while the crappie have preferred minnows. Anglers are also catching bass and crappie at Garrisons Lake with jigs working on crappie, and minnows for bass.

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