{"id":5175,"date":"2020-07-21T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boaterscatalog.com\/nbcat\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2022-03-07T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T20:22:18","slug":"pigfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boaterscatalog.com\/nbcat\/pigfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pigfish\" src=\"http:\/\/flfish.com\/baitfish\/baitfi17.jpg\" alt=\"Pigfish\" width=\"319\" height=\"162\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>Pigfish (Orthopristis chrysoptera) are in the grunt family and are another good bait for most bottom fish. Tarpon are also particularly fond of them. I have read that they are a fair-flavored panfish, but I think it\u2019s time to tell you that I am not in the habit of eating my bait &#8211; and pigfish are bait on my boat. I have a credo that I share with &#8220;Ziggy&#8221; in the funny papers; &#8220;I consider it a successful fishing day if my catch outweighs the bait.&#8221; So don&#8217;t forget: pigfish are bait.<\/p>\r\n<p>They do grow to about a foot in length and are best used from a still or very slowly drifting boat. They will not troll well, but most fish do like to eat them. Usually we catch pigfish when we are gold-hooking for other baits so we don&#8217;t expect to get a well full, just a few at a time. Those of you who don\u2019t own boats, please remember: when I write about a still or slowly drifting boat, the same can be applied to pier or bridge fishing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Capt. Charlie<\/p>\r\n<h4>Pigfish<\/h4>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boaterscatalog.com\/nbcat\/product-category\/explore_product\/fishing\/\">See our quality fishing gear here.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pigfish (Orthopristis chrysoptera) are in the grunt family and are another good bait for most bottom fish. Tarpon are also particularly fond of them. I have read that they are a fair-flavored panfish, but I think it\u2019s time to tell you that I am not in the habit of eating my bait&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1189],"tags":[1195,730,729,1173,1126,1241],"class_list":["post-5175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bait","tag-bait","tag-bait-fishing","tag-fishing","tag-grunt","tag-live-bait-fishing","tag-pigfish"],"views":323,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boaterscatalog.com\/nbcat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boaterscatalog.com\/nbcat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boaterscatalog.com\/nbcat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boaterscatalog.com\/nbcat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boaterscatalog.com\/nbcat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/boaterscatalog.com\/nbcat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6124,"href":"https:\/\/boaterscatalog.com\/nbcat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions\/6124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boaterscatalog.com\/nbcat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boaterscatalog.com\/nbcat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boaterscatalog.com\/nbcat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}