I’ll be down to fish the mud/weed soup after Sally.....but I’d have a lot of line on your reel fishing those big croakers......whatever eats those usually runs like hell. LOL

Was it a bait permit?

+1

Are you sure it was a permit and not a pompano?

My thoughts exactly

Quite a few juvenile permit caught around here in the last few years. Makes me wonder why just juveniles and not a single mature fish.

I guess I can’t say definitively, since we didn’t take a pic or contact an expert, but it was definitely different from the pompano we were catching. The color was much different, just gray/silver with a little hint of orange around the anal fin. No other bright color anywhere on it. Also, the nose/forehead bump (don’t know what it’s called) looked different. Did some quick googling while we had it out of the water and looked just like a young permit.