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Livie's Lifers


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Last week we took advantage of the nice weather and headed to an estuarine creek to do some crabbing and fishing. We have caught lots of species from this bridge in the past. One goal that I had was to get Livie on a naked goby, which I have caught here before. I was not entirely altruistic since I was hoping to try for a striped blenny at the same spot. Well when we got to the bridge there was a family camping out right where we wanted to fish :angry:.

While my wife crabbed, Livie and I both fished and caught silver perch, white perch, spotted (speckled) trout, croaker, spot, and striped bass but no new lifers for either of us. Can't complain since we caught a lot of fish.

Livie Silver Perch - Slaughter Creek - 06Sep20.jpg

While we were fishing I was soaking bait in a minnow trap. For four hours and not a single minnow. My plan was to use the minnows to try for snakeheads, but without them I decided to continue to fish salty fish. We ended up on Hooper's Island. It didn't take long to begin catching spot again. Livie caught the first different fish, a southern kingfish. She then caught her first lifer fish of the day, a small black drum :D.

Livie Black Drum - Hooper's Island - 06Sep20.jpeg

We caught a lot more spot, southern kingfish, mummichogs, and I caught my first Atlantic silverside of the year. The other side of the causeway had more rocks and was calmer water. We microfished for the goby or blenny. I caught three naked gobies before Livie took the rod. It didn't take long for her to catch her first naked goby on a #24 hook with a tiny piece of worm. This is her 89th different species on her lifelist! Hoping to have her at or above 90 by the end of the year.

Livie Naked Goby - Hooper's Island - 06Sep20.jpg

I never did catch a striped blenny, but did land a decent white perch before we quit fishing for the day. 

White Perch - Hooper's Island - 06Sep20.jpg

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Well it didn't take too long. We went down to the Ocean City Inlet Pier for a few hours. Livie caught her 90th new species for her lifelist with this pigfish.

Livie and Pigfish - Inlet Pier - 20Sep20.jpg

Livie Pigfish - Inlet Pier - 20Sep20.jpg

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Sue wasn't going to be outdone. She caught her first northern puffers with this double. She caught four more. Livie really wanted to catch puffers. I caught one and Sue five before Live finally caught one herself. Should have kept them for dinner. Didn't know that we would end up with 10 total.

Sue double puffer - Inlet Pier - 20Sep20.jpg

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43 minutes ago, jdmidwest said:

Is there much meat on a Puffer, normally just air?

Actually about as much as a chicken leg and relatively boneless. 

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