04 / SALT / REDFISH
Redfish are not complicated. They eat shrimp, they eat mullet, they eat crabs, and they eat anything that acts like it doesn't want to be eaten. A gold spoon over a grass flat, a Gulp shrimp under a popping cork, a twitchbait worked along an oyster bar: these are the lures that put redfish in the box.
JOHNSON
Gold weedless spoon that slides through grass flats where redfish live and treble hooks die. The redfish kit color is the one that outfishes everything else on the Southeast flats.
MIRROLURE
The flats jerkbait that has redfish writing letters to the FTC.
BERKLEY
New Penny matches the color of a live shrimp in skinny grass flat water better than almost anything on the market. At $6, you can afford to fish it into the rocks, which is where the snook live anyway.
BERKLEY
Pearl white in a pint jar full of scent juice that pulls redfish and snook closer. The Alive! liquid keeps the formula fresh between fish, and the 4" profile matches the bait shrimp everything inshore wants to eat.
BOMBER
Slow-sinking twitch/walk bait built for flats. The mullet profile is what everything inshore eats from June through October. Twitch it, let it sink, watch the rod double.
RAPALA
Topwater walk-the-dog for saltwater. Snook blow up on it at dawn, redfish crush it over oyster bars at dusk. The saltwater version of the Zara Spook argument, and Rapala's answer.
FOUR HORSEMEN
Pop it, let the Gulp shrimp dangle below, wait for the cork to disappear. The popping cork rig is inshore fishing simplified to its most effective form. Works from the Chesapeake to the Keys.
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