Anyone ever liveline a cunner?

[Rob Rockcrawler]

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.

[bassmaster]

You been fishing rocks and or rocky hard bottom

[Nebe]

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

it asked to be called a cunner-linguist



time for bed

[Christian]

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...

[outfished]

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.

[MakoMike]

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

[Rob Rockcrawler]

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

[tattoobob]

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

[thefishingfreak]

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.

[cheferson]

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.

[eelslinger]

cunner = bergal

[Pt.JudeJoe]

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

[pops]

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

[thefishingfreak]

Originally Posted by pops

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

cunner picture

[pops]

thanks aka a tautog ?

[MakoMike]

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

[Squibby17]

This is off 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"

[rickhern]

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?

[t.orlando]

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.

[Bass Babe]

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.

[Billybob]

Choggies and pogies

Man. you guys talk funny out there.

But they do work good, stay alive well too.


Bill