Comments on: Yellowfin Croaker

By: kenjones

kenjones — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 23:19:14 +0000

Mission Bay is where I first fished for big spotfin croaker. Later my dad would daily go down and dig up some ghost shrimp and use them to pursue the fish.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 23:10:23 +0000

Yellowfin, Spotfin & Black Croakers of good size can still be taken in Mission & San Diego Bays. For Spotfins in our bays, it helps to find the clam beds and fish right on top of them on a falling high tide to low tide. Ghost shrimp, Razor & Pismo clams are my go to baits but, I’ve also brought them home for dinner by using raw market shrimp & long thin strips of squid & on a 1/2oz Krocodile. Mojarra Frita is by far my favorite way to eat this fish, the skin tastes so good. I’ve even eaten yellowfin croaker as sashimi. I believe that most of the people that are telling “fish stories” about the pollution in our bays, are good story tellers but, lack actual fact based, peer reviewed scientific reports to back up their claims.

By: Robert Richardson

Robert Richardson — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:24:48 +0000

When I was a kid, back in the 50′s, my father and I would catch Spot Fin and Chinese Croakers in Mission Bay. But that ended when they dredged the bay. Sure miss those days. Now lucky to get a rock bass.

By: Jack Elliott

Jack Elliott — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:00:52 +0000

I’ve caught these fish numerous times while throwing lures for halibut from the beach. I finally took one home last year and fried it up pollution and all. It was damn good.