They are great tuna bait for sure. A lot of times when the draggers pull back you can get some floaters for your bait if you want to use whiting for tuna. DEADLY! Also a sabiki rig tipped with a little clam will produce whiting quickly for you.
yup, frost fish. my uncle used to take us kids to barrington beach in the winter at night with lanterns, hip boots, and gig poles. they'd swim into the shallows and we'd try to gig them...
When I was kid we use to get them on the beach next to the West wall. My old man would have to make us get in his old Pontiac. We fish when the air temp was in the teens.