Both residents and non-residents must now have a license to fish in fresh and salt water. Make sure to check with the fish and game department before fishing.
      While fishing in the Delaware Bay you may catch some croaker by boat off of Bowers Beach and Lewes and trout are easily caught on the New Jersey side. It is possible to land 20 trout by noon in some places. If you fish on the shore try the area south of the Woodland Beach area where you will be able to catch trout, croaker and bluefish, white perch and catfish. Both the upper bay and the lower Delaware River have an abundance of white perch and catfish.
      Big bluefish can be great fishing in the bay. Be prepared, they will hit almost anything such as shiny metal jigs, trolling plugs or by using live bait fish. Stripers and bluefish are best caught when fishing on a boat and using cut mullet and bunker. Rockfish fishing on the shore peaks in October and can be caught using live eels, white bucktail and white plastic worms will put plenty of keepers in your pale.
      Some great inland fishing spots include Lums Pond, Noxontown Pond and Silver Lake have nice bass fishing while using stick baits, crank baits and spinner baits. Traveling to the lower part of the state you will find more bass fishing out of Horseys Pond in Laurel that allows fishing with crank baits and senkos. The Nanticoke and Broad Creek are also good places to fish for bass by using senkos, crank baits and jigs. When the weather cools down significantly the crappie, stripper, bluefish and tog tend to bite more aggressively and prefer to move towards the deeper water of the bay.