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Take the Old Inlet Surf Fishing Class
 
Old Inlet staff will teach you basic equipment, casting, bait, seasons, regulations and many other things you need to to know to get started fishing on the beach.
 
$10 a person
Children under 12 free
All children must be accompanied by an adult.
 
Individuals, families, and groups welcome.
 
Private lessons available - $30 an hour
 
Classes are held every Tuesday in June, July and August
 
Advanced registration required.
Reserve now.  Space is limited.
302-227-7974
surfclass@oldinlet.com
 
All bait provided
Bring your own equipment or rental equipment is available
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Fishing Report

INDIAN RIVER INLET FISHING REPORT
July 7th, 2008

WQMR
Old Inlet is proud to sponsor the "Hot Spots Fishing Show" every Thursday from 2-3pm on Talk Radio 101.1 FM WQMR. Listen to the show via the WQMR webcast by clicking the logo.
Hope you all had a great July 4th Holiday Weekend. The busy season is here. We'll take 10 more weeks like the one we just had.


The fishing report is pretty much the same as last week with just a few minor changes.


Kingfish, spot, sand perch and croakers on the beach with a very few bluefish in the mix. The kingfish are in the 13-14 inch range. They are hitting on bloodworms and small chunks of fresh bunker. The croakers and spot are small but fun. Use bloodworms - fake or real. Dont like bloods?Try a sibiki rig for the spot.


CHad Clancy, of My Wolf, PA, weighed a citation kingfish tipping the scales at 1 pound 1 ounces and measuring 14.5 inches.


Live spot are here and they stripers are eating them like candy. Your best bet for a daytime striper is get in your boat or find a friend with a boat and drop a spot to the bottom of the Inlet. The best drift is the rip in front of the Coast Guard station on incoming tide. Or you can fish the end of both rockpiles on the start of outgoing water.


Along the rocks and railing the heat and boat traffic have driven the stripers deep in the Indian River Inlet. Live eels, rigged eels, black bucktails, and dark colored swim shads are the best baits with incoming water being the preferred tide.


Daytime rockpile jockies will find snapper blues on the incoming water in the Indian River Inlet. These fish are not picky eaters. They will hit anything like a spoon, metal cast lure, bucktail, Gotcha Plug. If you cant catch them do yourself a favor and dont admit it in public.


Good news for tautog lovers. The Delaware season reopened on Tuesday July 1. Live fleas are here!! The regulations will be 14 inches and ten fish a day.


The flounder bite is starting to pickup just offshore. The big flounder will move out of the bays to cooler offshore waters in the summer months. B Buoy - 8.4 miles due - east of the Inlet is a summer hotspot for big flatties.


Latest Photos (click to enlarge photos)
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Bluefin Tuna
42" and 50lbs
Jim Fister, George...
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Sea Trout
5 lbs, 24"
Marlene Martin
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Herring
17
Rob Kaufman III
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Bluefin Tuna and Bluefish
80#
MEGA-BITE Charters...
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Bluefish
14inch
Rob Kaufman
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Bluefin Tuna
30 punds
MEGA-BITE CHARTERS...
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Trout
7lbs 8oz
Phil Stekervetz
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Striper
24lb 07oz 43''
Zach Bedell
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Striped Bass
18lb s12oz
Bob Engle
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Flounder (First keeper flounders ever for both Drew & Mark)
Drew's = 22 1/4" and Mark's 22 1/2 - Did not weigh them
Drew Hipple & ...

 

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