Will Trade Home Grown Maters and Hot Peppers for Tips on Pier

Gonna make it down to the Pier Thursday 12th and maybe Friday and Sat evenings, have never fished the Pier before. Will be staying at an Uncle's Condo on the Bay side. Didn't have much success fishing in the Bay last Summer but did well with the Crabs. Would like to catch some edible fish. I will have my little 6 year old blonde haired boy with me. Would like to meet some of the regulars if you will be there early Thursday. What time should I be there and what would be good bait choices and rigs.

I hope you like remoras ::)

come early, stay late!
use sabiki or ribbon rig for bait

:poke1: Can I get a mater sammich fer that? ;) :D

Bring whatever gear/tackle ya have down with ya, bring a crisp $Franklin$, hire Pier#r ^^^ for three hours to show the where, when and how to catching whatever has the best chance of success.

Bait and rig will depend on what you want to try to catch.
A #2 treble attached to a 2' wire leader, with a swivel going to your main line and baited with a live LY isn't going to catch many Flounder.
But as of late, it has a 99.999% chance of catching a Remora and half decent chance of a King in the early morning & evening.

Switch the wire leader for 30-40# FC and add a 1oz egg, Carolina style, and you will still likely get a Remora, but your odds of a stray bull Red, shark or stingray go way up.

Good thing the water is clear this year. We have a remora infestation like Navarre. It would be bad if we had the water clarity of last year. Then, we couldnt see them and it is likely all we would catch.

If everybody fishing the octi would commit to catching and killing 10 remora per day it would surely make a difference, wouldn't it? I tried to do my part last week while I was down. I don't eat coyotes but I kill every one I can for population control.

so what do you do with it after you kill it? Use it for bait or chum?

crabs love sun dried remora!!! directions... stick to pier and leave 4 - 6 hours...then throw back into gulf....

Last week, some of us decided to start sticking them to the sign off the front of the octi. That way their life hangs in the balance on their own conscience.

Once they suffocate themselves from staying in the air too long, they finally let go and fall back to their place of origin to be swept far away from the pier in the currents and tides of sea life.

Of course, my wife theorises that they are actually related to the starfish family, because everytime you kill one, three more emerge in its place.

True dat!

They are like "ZOMBIE FISH" or sumpthin ???

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