Pompano 2023

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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"