How to catch Whiting

Whiting feed in 56–82°F water and bite best at 62–76°F. Fish Scouter's season calendar follows them in 16 waters; in October they are at their peak in The Lower Texas Coast, The Upper Texas Coast, The Louisiana Marsh and 5 more.

10 pts · trophy at 15"Feeds 56–82°FBest 62–76°FIn season nowBeach / surfPass / inlet

About

The whiting, the kingfish of the surf: a small, silver, delicious fish on every beach, the one that saves the day when the pompano are not there.

How to fish it

A two-hook bottom rig in the surf, small hooks, small baits, in the first trough. Kids' fishing, and the best kind.

What it eats

shrimpsand fleasFishbitesclam

Live bait for it

Sand fleas (mole crabs)On a small circle hook or a pompano rig, digger-end first — the pompano and whiting bait.

Live shrimpUnder a popping cork or free-lined, hooked under the horn on a #1 to 2/0 circle hook; on a jig head for the bottom. The universal inshore bait.