Has anyone fished for crappie in saltwater? Just reading about it today. I had no idea they were in saltwater. 🤷🏻*♂️
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Has anyone fished for crappie in saltwater? Just reading about it today. I had no idea they were in saltwater. 🤷🏻*♂️
I have not heard that before. I have caught them in brackish waters.
Never heard of that.
Don’t think they can survive salt water.
They may be talking about speckled trout. Kinda look like crappie but have a couple teeth on top and bottom.
Maybe you can post the article.
I would be interested in reading.
Thanks
Chuck
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No crappie in the ocean. However I have caught flounder and crappie in the same river. (Brackish water)
They sure can't tolerate any salinity here, they ball up in the last few miles of freshwater in the Pearl River when the salinity gets anywhere off freshwater.
Saltwater crappie fishing is like freshwater shark fishing.
I’ve heard of crappie living in brackish water. If I were fishing brackish water, though, I would not be targeting crappie.
Well I just watched a video of it and they were not crappie. ��*♂️ But I also found this picture. https://www.crappie.com/crappie/blob...1-b59e251f14b0
sorry I guess I don’t know how to post a picture.
https://crappiefisher.com/salt-water-crappie/
see if this works.
Flounder would be my target for inshore salt water. Mighty fine eating and a lot of fun to catch.
Those were pinfish they were catching out of the kayak in the YouTube video embedded in the link.
I saw pinfish also. Sure would full of bones.
Makes great bait.
Speckled trout are a pretty fish and good eating. As said above, don’t try and lip them.:RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by Chuck Adams
Bob
Agree with you guys. Attachment 405958
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Pinfish are the greatest bait stealers I know, just based on boyhood memoriesQuote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
Bob
I saw a YouTube video when trying to find good crappie waters near me, which featured a small, very local park, with incredibly brackish water (saltwater comes gushing in at high tide, and a tiny creek feeds the freshwater part of it.) The guy in the video had a bucket full of crappie and bluegill. I haven't been able to test out those waters, as they've been doing construction work there, but it was very surprising.
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Youtube and the internet and technology have created some of the "best" entertainment ever , the amount of know what they are doing folks is astounding , and yet as I view these short clips and ridiculous things that are just trash and see herds of wanna beez trying to be stars on the internet it makes me actually wonder a few things.
1 were they dropped repeatedly on their heads as a child ?
2 were the crowds following also dropped repeatedly on their heads as children as well ?
3 who are these people ?
Ketchn pinfish and calling them crappie is about as stupid as it gets and to top it off it's done by "crappie fisher " :Rofl
One thing for sure positive about it all , Ketchn is way more fun than fishing , dat much is fact rotfl
I wish Crappie were as easy to catch as Pinfish, I could have bucket load every time out.Quote:
Originally Posted by mperry
Bull sharks go up rivers and they are mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by deathb4disco
Yep! Sounds like you watch as much “Sharkfest” as I do. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Barnacle Bill
Panfish. If you get a bunch of them, scale and cook them whole in the way you like to . Yes, they’re bony and tedious but they’re tasty. Had some done up that way when on vacation down here when I was a teen. I wouldn’t want to make a meal of them, it would seemingly take a week but they’re worth the effort when cooking other things.
And I’m with Ketchn on them being dropped, maybe repeatedly, on their haids!
You can see crabs up the river where I grew up all the way to the first lock.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barnacle Bill
I first ate pinfish in the mid 1980s. I was cast netting mullet off of a sea wall on the way to Boca Grand pass in SW Fla. I got a bunch of big mullet on the last throw, more than I needed.. There was a family there fishing one of the passes, I gave them some of the mullet and they offered me some fresh cooked fish hot off the grease. It was small pieces, so I asked what is this..Pin Fish they said, They fillet and eat the big ones and use the small ones for bait. The fried pin fish was really good as were the side dishes they had. since that day I have eaten fish like squirrel fish, Southern Puffers, sting ray, and several others that usually get thrown back. There are plenty that I never wanted to eat...like Remora that may be tasty but never tried.
I believe it comes down to what one is comfortable eating or what they have been told that wasn't good to eat. Growing up I always heard the best recipe for gar was to season heavily and cook on an oak plank until tender. Allow to cool slightly, throw out the fish and enjoy that tender oak plank. Led me to believe to fish was not worth eating. Through the miracle of TV you realize people eat and enjoy them. It ia all regional as to what is acceptable to eat most times.
AND fresh water drum are trash and salt water drum are the greatest table fare ever :Rofl:Rofl:banghead
Blackened Gasper Goo. Hmmm
and ding dong silly me thunk this thread was gunna be about some fool ketchn triple tail and kawln em crappie :Rofl
That ran through my head too. The first one I ever saw was caught by a then friend and he called it a sea brim.
I would have to agree with this. They can thumpQuote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
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they sort of act like crappie sometimes you know ,seen them suspend on buoys before way south of you, one per buoy .Quote:
Originally Posted by skeetbum
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 bagQuote:
Originally Posted by Yak Fish
Nothing like fresh flounder! That was a nice mix!
Bob
Do they taste much different than freshwater Crappie...assuming you've had both.
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Originally Posted by Yak Fish
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!:Rofl:banghead 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.:juggle
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sharpnose and blacknose sharks in the surf before the sun rises , love cut pinfish , this much is for sure :highfive
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
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
And master bait stealers when I was a kid on vacation down in NC. You do need really small hooks!
Bob