04 / SALT / SNOOK
Snook live in places where you can't throw most lures: under docks, in mangrove roots, along seawalls. The lures that work are the ones that match the bait (usually mullet or pilchards), can be worked on a slow retrieve, and survive the structure. These picks cover dawn topwater, midday deep structure, and everything between.
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.
LIVETARGET
Photo-finish realism for clear-water inshore. Snook see colors. Yes, really.
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.
BERKLEY
Six inches of pearl white scented plastic is the big-trout bait when schoolies ignore everything else. Rig it weedless, work it over oyster bars on a slow retrieve, and find out how big the speckled trout get in your creek.
PAUL BROWN
Hand-poured suspending bait. Texas seatrout religion. The most expensive thing you'll lose to a redfish today.
MIRROLURE
The flats jerkbait that has redfish writing letters to the FTC.
RAPALA
The freshwater darter with VMC saltwater hooks. Same dance, salt-grade hardware.
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