Well we overnighted from Dallas to N Padre last Sat night.
Arrived to the jetties right before sunrise. Wife figured the pier would be better place to swim (too much seaweed around the jetties, and when the kids get restless from fishing, they like to swim) So kids were working some squid and shrimp,nothing happening. I walked up Bob Hall tried a few different spots only managed a small hardhead. Then I hooked up on small Bonnethead on a Gulp Ghost lol. Kids got bored went swimming. Finally the pompano started coming in. Swear I caught 40 minimum. Also got a small spanish, but he had no friends hanging with him. Monday, different story, nothing but hardtails all day, really rough conditions and the water clarity kind of sucked. Tuesday went offshore, seas were 3 to 5, took my boys, managed a red snapper limit to 10 pounds, plenty of vermillion to 5 pounds, 3 squirrel fish, good size bonita, 28 inch AJ, and 3 juve Aj's, like 8 inches, must of just been born lol. Got pulled to the wreckage and broke off a few times. The ride out was rough but anchored up not so bad, sorry no photos. The next night schools of trout had 2 inch watermelon shad pinned up in the canal behind my place, it was crazy feeding frenzy going on. Unfortunatlely could not hook up. Trie gulp, tried shad they were eating, topwater, mirrorlures, spoons, rattle traps. If anybody has tips on what to do in a situation like this please tell me. I was about to resort to dynamite.

What were the conditions like when the pompano were running? Time of day? Tides? Bait used? Will be traveling down there in a couple of weeks.

Night fishing under the lights, try your simple speck rigs (the ones with just mono tails, not soft plastics), weedless/weightless softplastics or Yo-Zuri 3D Minnow 70. All in white or clear colors. That's mainly all I throw under the lights.

It was midtide, that day the ocean wasn't roaring so much,
the were pulled out were the waves would first break. Pretty much eating everything which is odd to me, bc on the East Coast where I grew up we had to dig for sandfleas and catch them in the am or late pm hours if we were lucky.
Now on the fishing lights, I have fished lights but this was a different scenario. There were countless huge schools of watermelon shad getting pinned up at the end of a canal by specks (not under lights) but they would not touch anything.