Pompano 2023

[phatdaddy]

Not a great start to the spring run, went yesterday for a couple of hours. Heard they starting to show up. Had good whiting bite and then this guy staggered by. He was 12 inches from nose to fork in the tail. That gives you an idea how big the 2 whiting were, definitely studs for our area



hopefully when the run gets hot, I'll have more pics.

[Giorgio]

Whiting, I remember when we would head out in January on the party boats and fish for them, freezing, snow and wind, just to catch a few and big ones. Got home sliced them up into chunks, put them in a pot with a little water, pepper, hot pepper, garlic and cook them covered, when ready drizzle with some olive oil. Then the Russian fleets moved in with their mother ships and they just disappeared with so many other fish. We would head out fishing and they would come with their nets so close to us, the captains, believe this or not fired warning shots and that's when the mile limit, I think was 15 miles.



So I might as well get to the freakin' point here, enough of that crapola, GREAT CATCH!!!!!!

[SkunkBoat]

Originally Posted by Giorgio

Whiting, I remember when we would head out in January on the party boats and fish for them, freezing, snow and wind, just to catch a few and big ones.

Not the same "whiting".

Our "whiting" in Northeast are silver hake. and yes they are pretty much gone in the NY Bight.


Those fish pictured are what we would call croakers. Member of the drum family along with redfish, black drum, weakfish, speckled trout and spot (spotted croaker aka Lafayette) and northern kingfish.

Kingfish here are also sometimes called whiting in the South.
They look like those but with dark markings and a tall front dorsal fin.

In the Great Lakes there is an entirely different "whiting"

[phatdaddy]

I think in the Carolina s , they call them ground mullet.

Kinda like we call a cobia a ling, a kingfish is a king mackerel, a vermillion snapper is a beeliner.

Don t even get started on LY s or alewives,pilchards,greenies,whitebait,chubs,chophe rs,pinfish,etc.

[Blue_Runner]

In NC at least around Cape Hatteras, they call them sea mullet. It has been so long since I'd heard it I had to google it lol.

Good eating fish! Those are nice sized also, congratulations on the catch.

[cfelton]

Yep, we call them mullet. Good eating and good for cut bait. Few years ago I caught a cooler full in the surf by the Avalon pier. Fried them up nice and crispy, delicious! Nice catch!