This is was kind of lame day, towards the end of the last pompano run (I had some pictures of much better catches, but please see previous post re: me sucking at picture taking).

Two 12" pomps and a dozen whiting. I don't target the whiting, but don't mind catching them while I'm fishing for pompano. They are a fine eatin' fish, breaded in corn meal and fried.

Now the pompano... if you've never had one you're missing out. There is no finer eating fish in the ocean. Some are as good but none are better.

Nice Little Pomp's ya got there . . . Nice Picture.

PS - that's not me in the picture, it's one of my fishing buddies. (But it's my truck.)

you boyz gots a permit for them fish

Thanks for the Clarification . . .

you have to have a permit to issue permit permits.

If you ever get hassled for fishing a private beach, you may have to present a permit.

Yeah but those are pompano, not permit...

they are like little permit though.

For a long time I was convinced that pompano and permit are the same thing, not matter what anyone told me. Then I caught a little permit off the beach, and could tell that are slight differences. But it was undersized, so I ate it (without a permit permit). 😉

you know what I ment,where is it...where do you keep it do you have more than one? how many polls can you have on the beach at the same time

My policy is to never submit to polls at the beach. The eco-nazis use your information to make laws that screw over fishermen.

you a pollitition

Pablo, jes a-funnin' with ye...

Regs for pompano are as follows: each fish has to be 11" from nose to fork (probably can't tell from the pic, but a pomp has a forked tail, as opposed to a paddle-type tail). You can keep six per day.

There aren't any regs for whiting. Keep all you want. We call the small ones fish sticks, and they fry up nice. Tingspon Kyart will always tell you, "a whiting will fry, mon!"

Whiting are often overlooked because they're not what you'd call a spectacular gamefish. As far as a fight, they're kind of like the French: they'll hit your bait pretty hard, then instantly give up. Once it's all said and done, the fight is over and the fish is in the bucket, then they'll start fighting again.