Surf Fishing in TX

My Wife Kathy and me are on a vacation down on the coast of TX.
I have been trying my hand at surf fishing.
I'm using this huge spinning reel spooled with 50# braid.
Wading out then cast a 4oz sinker with shrimp flavored biat strips.
We have been catching "whiting".
This is really a lot different from crappie fishing in KS.
I think the sinker weight is more then some of the fish we are getting.
We clean the larger Whiting we caught.
Cooked them up along with some KS crappie we brought.
GOOD STUFF. can't tell much difference.Attachment 226921

My wifes idea of a real vacation is on the beach. So we made a lot of beach vacations over the last forty years. If you put me close to water I am going to have to fish....so I learned a little about surf fishing...never all I should have but some. I like it and it made the vacations fun for me. I think are beach days are mostly over now.But I hope to make another trip someday. You have to use those pyramid sinkers or satellite sinkers to hold it ...depending on the surf it does take a 4oz sometimes. I did find on the whiting that on the atlantic coast they come in pretty close sometimes and you can through past them,you can catch them on light equipment when they come in close. Pompano are the bomb. Intercoastal water is a hoot too. I hate the catfish.