Pinfish

Bait: live pinfish. live shrimp. live mullet if you can find it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This mishap occurred at Paradise Beach, near Pensacola, Florida, fishing on a dock for pinfish. ❋ Martin A. Nowak (2011)

The little pinfish had turned him into an entomologist. ❋ Martin A. Nowak (2011)

With a dozen more fish, I add three more species — pinfish, margate, and bluestriped grunt — to my list. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the enduring memories of my childhood is from the time I lived in St. Petersburg 1977-80, fishing with my grandfather off the dock behind his apartment on Snell Isle and feeding the pinfish we caught -- it was almost always pinfish -- to the pelicans and the occasional blue heron. ❋ Sinfonian (2008)

TIP: Many larger species -- tarpon, barracuda, grouper -- feed on baitfish, and pinfish are tops. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Joe Toth's beautiful Florida Bay backcounty snook, caught on a live pinfish. ❋ Unknown (2006)

One day when I was only seven years old and fishing, I pulled a pinfish -- they're called, with sharp dorsal spines -- up too hard and fast. ❋ E.O. Wilson (2007)

Transient species that move in and out of the estuary include spot, pinfish, menhaden, flounder, white and striped mullet, and red drum (the official mascot of the North Inlet-Winyah Bay Reserve). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Daily Schadenfreude "award," having previously been "honored" for employing illegal immigrants at his home the very first DS award and for flip-flopping like a pinfish on a dock over gay rights. ❋ Sinfonian (2007)

Wait a second ... isn't that the same Jim Robinson who banned supporters of Drunky McStagger back in 2000, then flip-flopped like a pinfish on a dock? ❋ Sinfonian (2007)

Preliminary assessments indicate only scattered fish kills along the Texas coast, with forage species such as mullet, pinfish and silver perch, along with hardhead catfish, accounting for the majority of the freeze-killed marine life. ❋ Unknown (2011)

BET Captain Richard Burson of Rufishingyet Charters out of Key Largo reported anchoring and chumming on the patch reefs and fishing with live shrimp, pilchards and pinfish on ❋ Unknown (2010)

Keying on finding schools, his anglers started casting live pinfish, pigfish and croakers and caught about 20 or 25 trout, some oversized and some small, he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With state-of-the-art filtration and chillers, the tanks will hold shrimp and possibly pinfish, said Glenn Kulik of Indoor Ocean Technology, the Naples firm contracted to build and install the tanks. ❋ LANCE SHEARER (2010)