dawn patrol day 2

[phatdaddy]

dogs got me up this morning at 4:30, so i made coffee and sat around bored, then it dawned on me, the boats in the water across the street. *i grabbed a surf rod, frozen shrimp, & a thermos of coffee and headed for *shell island.
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e203/ffatdaddy/POL_0337.jpg
mr pompano & mr whiting
meet these guys over there and invited them back to the house for breakfast.

back at the crib by 8:00

life is good

[shore-power]

Looks good. I caught a bunch of those Whitting (we call them sand mullet or king fish up here in Va.) the other day. Those things are great to eat. Where are fishing out of? Somewhere south judging by the pompano?

[phatdaddy]

panama city florida

we also call whiting ground mullet :)

[dragn3]

GROUND MULLET! ;D

[phatdaddy]

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e203/ffatdaddy/POL_0338.jpg

day two, getting better............

[shore-power]

Nice fish!

[Stinky_Hooker]

Nice catch!


We have both ground mullet and whiting. A ground mullet (southern kingfish) is completely different and caught differently but they are very closely related. Whiting run the beach and are caught in the surf around here where as ground mullet prefer muddy bottoms like around oil rigs in the bay.


The main difference is that whiting are really silvery with a small black mark on the tail. Ground mullet are more brownish and can even produce spots when stressed (caught).

Either way they are both in the drum family and look very much like baby redfish....they are both excellent eating and are IMO the finest flakiest meat around. If they got as big as reds I swear that all Id fish for. ;)

[phatdaddy]

thankx, cookin one as i type..