During the past 20 years, the bait-stand price of juvenile croaker has doubled, more or less. A dozen of these mostly summertime baits for speckled trout has gone from $6 retail to as high as a dollar ...

Controversy over the use of croakers as summertime speckled trout bait is based in large part on misinformation. Croakers work, but they pose no greater threat to Texas' trout population than anything ...

Not so long ago that anyone has forgotten, a vocal minority of coastal fishermen in Texas told anyone who would listen that speckled trout were headed to extinction in a hand basket unless croakers ...

One cast landed to the right of a small rock structure and the popping cork went under for a brief second before resurfacing. The other cast -- from the same boat -- landed on the opposite side of the ...

All traditional tackle techniques used today began as nontraditional methods. In the timeline of angling history, free-lining live croaker is a recent development. And since the inception of using a ...

A fishing boat operating in the waters off Jiwani caught 18 large croakers (called Kir in Balochi) and docked at Gunz in Balochistan with its prized catch. The largest specimen of the catch fetched ...