Most delicious fish, and nearest beach.

[redneck_billcollector]

You could search on google or youtube for "Ikan Bakar" recipe. Literal translation of grilled fish in Malay. The recipe goes well with flounders too. If you could find banana leaves, I recommend grilling with banana leaves.

I surf fish PCB all the time, never heard of sheepshead being caught in the surf and flounder in the surf are not common at all, we get them in the bays and dune lakes. You will catch redfish/red drum/channel bass, pompano, black drum, whiting (southern or gulf kingfish), sharks and spanish mackerel with bluefish showing up in large numbers come fall through the winter. You will also catch jack crevalle, catfish and tons of lady fish, which I target in the surf with a fly rod. Here are some Panama City Beach surf fishing pictures.

 

[redneck_billcollector]

I wade fish the dune lakes just west of PCB a good bit, but exclusively with a fly rod...the fish in the photos were all caught in the same lake in one little stretch that I wade all the time, often on the same fly, nothing large, but fun on a fly rod.

 

[Sharkfighter]

Black sea bass tops the list, but it takes a whole lot of them for a good meal.

I love fried sea trout also, and mullet dip

I say 3 decent Black Bass for 2 adults if going the skinless boneless route with a good appetite. Buddy and me got 5 last weekend So that is 2 1/2 in frying pan for me and the wife.

 

[almoore]

I wade fish the dune lakes just west of PCB a good bit, but exclusively with a fly rod...the fish in the photos were all caught in the same lake in one little stretch that I wade all the time, often on the same fly

On a gurgler. That looks like a lot of fun!

 

[Polkberry]

Puppy drum (smaller black drum with stripes) as good as it gets besides grouper IMO. Hardly anybody fishes for them and they are plentiful and easy to catch. There used to not even be a limit on em but that may have changed.

 

[charlie81]

I agree with the puppy drum. I usually get lucky and catch one or two when I’m fishing the Jekyll pier. I don’t know how specifically target them though

 

[Polkberry]

I agree with the puppy drum. I usually get lucky and catch one or two when I’m fishing the Jekyll pier. I don’t know how specifically target them though

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What I call a puppy drum is a juvenile black drum that still have vertical stripes . Lots of people refer to slot reds as puppy drum too. In summer they seem to be scattered about around shallow cover in bays . In the winter I find them bunched up on the top lip of the channel drop around rocks close to river mouths in 5' to 10'. I fish on the bottom like catfishing.

 

[Pate55]

From the beach whiting is the tastiest. In the Ocean off GA coast, trigger is # 1 with Cobia being a close 2nd. A little farther offshore and the sand tile fish taste like a scalop met a lobster and had babies. Delicious!