A striper i filleted this weekend had about a 5 inch cunner in it, along with about 20 crabs. Was wondering if anyone has tried em for bait? Its the only one i have ever found in a belly. Not real sure if it is a common food or not, you would think if they liked to eat cunners they would fill up on them.

You been fishing rocks and or rocky hard bottom

Did you hear about the cunner who could talk????

it asked to be called a cunner-linguist :hihi:



time for bed :laughs:

ive caught fluke with them.
thats about it.
im sure bass eat just as many cunner as they do tog, seabass, and everything else that swims. i bet a nice big cunner would work great.

My uncle caught a monster and found two lobsters..

when i caught my first i thing it had a belly full of clam...

While fishing the mouth of an estuary last weekend I bagged a keeper with a huge steam clam about 5 inch's long, without the shell on of course. I believe bass will eat just about anything if given the opportunity.

I've used small ones for bait targeting fluke and cught some schoolie sized bass.

I may give it a shot sometime if things are slow.

I was bait fishing with Sea worms and the worms were
getting munched on by something after a while I ended
up snagging one and live lining it with no luck. But I didn't
catch with the worms either

yes many times.
i take scizors and trim there back fin right off.
lots of spikes there. less likely to get spit out if there smooth.

Is a cunner a choggy? If it is in a talk by charley soarses sp? he said that he had a friend that used them for blackfish and always got the biggest fish with them. He also mentioned using them for bass.

cunner = bergal

So .. if you went choggie fishing would you be cunning? :laugha:

ok someone had to ask ....what the $%#@ is a cunner ? :hidin:

ok someone had to ask ....what the $%#@ is a cunner ? :hidin:

cunner picture (http://www.landbigfish.com/fish/fish.cfm?ID=198)

thanks aka a tautog ? :read:

Pops,
No they are related to the tautog, but they are a much different fish.

This is off topic :topic:

but speaking of whats found in a fish bellie. Read an interview with Frank Mundus (shark fishing legend) and they asked him whats the strangest thing he ever found in a sharks bellie

his answer a "Bunny Rabbit"

In my younger know-it-all years, I laughed at a guy livelining a choggy at the canal run while everyone else was livelining herring.....He got the last laugh!! I caught two cod in the canal a few years ago and both had choggies in their bellies. About the only thing I have not found in stripers belly is an eel...Go figure?

If cunner is same as choggie, Watched a friend get a 36in fish on one. Have seen a "few" people set up for livelineing them.

Eels, bivalve bodies, worms, very small fish, etc. are digested more quickly and easily than large fish covered in scales and shelled invertebrates. This could skew any at-home stomach content analysis of stripers, or of any other fish.

Choggies and pogies :wavey:

Man. you guys talk funny out there.

But they do work good, stay alive well too.


Bill