If you are looking for some great summer time fishing fun, pompano is a great species to target.They put up a good fight for their size.The Pompano usually arrive in early June and will stay around through early fall.

The best conditions to catch pompano is clear, calm water.Pompano are typically found in the sloughs just past the first sandbar or deep water sloughs very close to the beach.A good way to spot these deep areas is to go out at low tide and look for the holes and the return to fish about two hours prior to high tide and continue to fish for a couple of hours during the falling tide.Sea mullet can also be found in these holes. Therefore, make sure you are not trying to show off and play “He-Man” and cast too far.

The most popular bait for pompano is sand fleas.You can read the article we posted a couple of weeks ago on how to catch sandfleas but for a quick refresher, you can use a sand flea rake to catch sand fleas and then hook them as shown below or you can buy frozen sand fleas at Frank & Fran’s.

Shrimp is also a good bait for pompano but it can be easily picked off by calico crabs and that can become a nuisance.The tackle needed to catch pompano is a simple two drop rig with small hooks.Here are some of our favorite rigs for pompano.

Here are pictures of some of the recent pompano that have been caught and shared with us at Frank & Fran’s.Stop in, grab some pompano rigs, sand fleas and get out there are do some catching.Don’t forget to stop in and let us take a picture or send us a picture at frankandfransavon@gmail.com to share on our fishing report.