Ocean crappie

[DockShootinJack]

I caught crappie & founder on back to back casts to a willow tree in brackish water on the west side of Albemarle Sound. Thought the flounder was a giant slab. All were big enough to hit the cooler & swim in grease.

Jim

That would make for a nice mixed bag

[BobC]

Nothing like fresh flounder! That was a nice mix!
Bob

[Slabopotamus]

Do they taste much different than freshwater Crappie...assuming you've had both.

I caught crappie & founder on back to back casts to a willow tree in brackish water on the west side of Albemarle Sound. Thought the flounder was a giant slab. All were big enough to hit the cooler & swim in grease.

Jim

[up2specks]

Have caught, cleaned, used for bait MANY pinfish! Sabiki rigs are THE ticket. They have exact same skeletal anatomy that most fish possess. No extra bone hassle like ladyfish, shad etc. Great table fare with the larger ones favored, small live ones are great used weightless for all gamefish. Can be used as cut bait as well, but a great tip is to cut a portion of the tail off to make it "struggle" more to exert more vibration/attractant factor. Lips, dorsal or anal fin are all good hook locations. I favor the anal fin the most. Any anglers that confuse crappie with pinfish may actually have a "pinhead" chromosome or three! Have caught boatloads of Specks(Crappie) in brackish environments up and down the East coast. Don't know their salinity level tolerance but I do know they don't tolerate too much. St. John's river here in the Sunshine State is an excellent example of a brackish(fresh/salt) river fishery. Varying degrees of salinity present both North to South.

u2s

[Ketchn]

sharpnose and blacknose sharks in the surf before the sun rises , love cut pinfish , this much is for sure

[DockShootinJack]

I watched a Brown Pelican choke out on a pin fish I had unhooked and thrown on the pier. He bit off more than he could swallow

[Ketchn]

pinfish are fun to ketch when nothing else will bite , if you have a tiny hook you can get tired of ketchn them pretty quickly .
they are the bream of the ocean , pecking little fools no doubt

[BobC]

And master bait stealers when I was a kid on vacation down in NC. You do need really small hooks!
Bob