There was a thread up a couple months ago, and I said I would report my luck/lack thereof.

Went to the Bass Pro early afternoon and picked up the tackle to make 3 leaders, along with a package of frozen shrimp, and my 3-day fishing license. ($32 for all)

Fished for about 30 minutes this evening from the time the beach started really clearing out, until the time where I needed my head lamp to see my hooks, but it was still in the car. Caught 1 hard head. That was it.

Did see a few really immature bone fish earlier in the day while I was out in the water (6-10 inch range).

The closest sand bar to the beach house we're in was farther than I cared to walk/swim this evening. I might nut up and go for it tomorrow, we'll see.

I'll update before we had to Nawlins.

Go try either side of the pass. My buddy catches stuff there all the time. Just be ready to help the shark back in the water after you wear him out...

_____________________________
"Guns don't kill people, I kill people."

Just got back from Grayton Beach, spent a week out there. We did "well" off the shoreline with shrimp on red flag days that helped push some of that crap June grass up. Wade past it and cast and catch!

Try the jetties as the tide is going out, everyone was doing VERY well the few times we went by (it started raining on our group when we tried to hit the jetties, go figure!)

adpotts- I seriously doubt those were bonefish. They simply don't go that far north. Destin is even too far north for snook and bonefish are less tolerant than snook of cooler waters.

I didn't fish from the beach any when we were on Perdido Key a couple weeks ago but we fished near-shore in a boat and tore up the smacks & jacks. I saw a lot of bait up close to the beach too. Lot's of pilchards, juvenile pompano (like 5-6" long), blue runners, and pinfish. Even saw a decent size stingray that was probably 18" across swimming right up agains the shore in about 6" of water- he literally swam right in front of my face.

Finn - I'm pretty sure that I reeled in a few 12" or less bonefish as well. Some of them had very distinct "tiger stripe" like coloring, which made me wonder if they were something else.

Maybe they were bonefish. I've just never ever heard of bones remotely that far north. Though I can't think of what they might have been.

They sure looked like bone fish, but I'm thinking they may have been whiting, as we caught a 5 yesterday. I just know they were very similar in appearance to the bone fish we caught in T&C while looking at them in the water.

So on top of the 5 whiting caught yesterday, between myself and another guy here, we caught 7 pompano today, and I also caught 1 black drum.

All fish were pretty small, and all were biting on frozen shrimp. We tried mullet and squid as well, but didn't have any luck. we were both fishing with a 2 ft pre-rigged steel leader with 2 hooks and a 2oz pyramid weight. Most bites were coming on the lower hook. Plenty of fishing biting, missed a few. We were catching the pompano during the middle of the day.

I know I saw a lot of whiting in the surf, especially small ones.

This is a whiting:


This is a bonefish:

That whiting has a case of the browning. Fresh out of the water, they are silvery white.

Ladyfish

Yup - Bonefish is what I was reeling in.