The Yack Report: Trophy Season!

Striper Trophy Season Opens April 16th, 2016   This is my Friend Ron Mcmorrow…He and his friends are the “Young Guns” of the light tackle jigging style that is becoming so popular. Most all of these fish were taken by jigging 10″ BKD’s near a warm water discharge over the course of the winter. Ron…

The Yack Report: Light Tackle Fishing

April 12th, 2016 While I was chasing Hickory Shad with Phil Kerchner, Ange Harclerode and Larry Perch were fishing near Ange’s house for White Perch and catching some good ones,too! Larry was my first customer when I started working at Sarge’s Bait and Tackle. He bought 2 of these little “Crappie rods” as he called…

The Yack Report: RIP Big Brother.

My older brother Fred passed away Sunday morning at his home with heart trouble. I am reposting the story below from last fall… The last time he went fishing and the last time we fished together… My thoughts and prayers go out to his wife Lynn and daughter Lindy Yack at this sad time… RIP…

The Yack Report: Last Couple of Days!

April 9th, 2016 When John Rogers and I arrived at the river the dam had just released several gates and the river was rising. The water was very dirty for 30 minutes or so. During that time I fished the current seam where the dirty water was pushed towards the bank, with no luck. Soon…

The Yack Report: Cold Weather? No Worries!

This colder weather has the fish snapping and the fishing tonight was nothing short of epic! As Ange Harclerode and I arrived at the river we could hear sirens and see the flashing lights indicating an imminent release of water from the dam. The scheduled release rate was 50,000 cfs. Our timing could not have…

The Yack Report: Shad Fishing

I had a most interesting day yesterday. It was full of failures and successes. I am very pleased with the quality and size of the Hickory Shad this year lots of Roe fish 20″ and better. The small bucks have showed up as well this week. I hope this cold weather slows things down a…

Orca in the C&D Canal???

Breaking News this Morning from Delaware Surf Fishing dot com has taken over the internet as fast as the reports came in of a Orca sighting in the C&D Canal?! Check out their report below: About an hour ago Chris Ragni and Brian Mack were cruising along in the work boat when they saw something…

The Yack Report: Shad But True!

Fat Hickories on ultra light gear… except for braided line I’m using pretty much the same lures and rigs that we used almost 50 years ago… adds to the ritual of Spring fishing. — with Ange Harclerode.