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Short Description	Pompano Tips
Tip	Pompano range from Florida in the winter up to Nags Head in the summer. They like warm water above 75 degrees. They're a silver flat fish with yellow fins and blue eyes shaped like a sun fish or crappie. The larger ones (2#+) come in first. In the early summer they'll range the sand bar and come in on the high tide. They feed primarily on shrimp and sand fleas (mole crabs). They will come in to the shore break, flip over on their sides, snatch their food and then zip back out on the same wave. They say the best way to catch a pomp. is to set the hook just before it hits. They're a very quick fish requiring guile and quickness and they're a good-fighting on light tackle. For the mid-late summer pomps. (inside the bar) I'll use a 6'6" light action rod with a small open-faced reel spooled with 4-6# test line. Pomps. are spooky so you have to use the right terminal tackle. I'll use a #6 good short shank hook snelled to the running line and often a light egg sinker in between. It doesn't take much to cast to them. Look for areas where there are lots of sand fleas. Often where pomps. have been feeding, the tide-line will be littered with sand flea carcasses. There'll probably be a short drop right behind the surf break. That's where you want to put your bait. They hit fast and soft. Be ready and strike.