Captain's Corner: Using shrimp for bait can lure redfish, speckled trout (St. Petersburg Times)
**By Jim Huddleston, Times Correspondent**
Saturday, November 19, 2011
**What's hot: **As the sun rises a little earlier with the time change,
anglers can take advantage of the low light to catch speckled trout and
redfish. With sardines getting scarce, get to the bait shops early to ensure
the best select shrimp. Larger shrimp mean longer casts, helping anglers stay
far off the oyster bars these gamefish are invading. Use long fluorocarbon
leaders in 15- to 20-pound test to help disguise the presentation. On higher
tides, use an adjustable cork to keep the bait at the desired depth. Popping
the cork will stimulate trout to feed.
**Tackle: **Working the large mullet schools that cover the grassflats,
anglers can still pick up some quality redfish. Darker jerkbaits, bucktails
and spoons are great artificials that can be tossed into the muds left behind
from flushing mullet. Freelining a medium-sized pinfish (about 4 inches long,
rigged with a #4 split shot just above the hook) will make the bait try to
flee upward and draw strikes from reds. On the wintertime negative tides, work
the sandy potholes just off the shallowest flats where land is exposed. These
dropoffs will hold ...
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