The essentials for living your best life.
The essentials for living your best life.
Essential Concepts
Redfish do hit spoons, especially near weed lines, grass flats, potholes, and feeding activity on shallow water. Use a weedless spoon with a steady retrieve, then add bumps and pauses, with gold, silver, or black chosen to match water clarity and light.
Essential Concepts: Live shrimp is the best all-around bait for red drum; small blue crab and fresh cut mullet are best for larger fish, surf, and stained water. Match the bait to local forage, water clarity, current, and depth for the most reliable results.
Artificial lures for redfish work best when they match water clarity, depth, cover, and the fish’s forage. Paddle tails, flukes, spoons, and topwater plugs each have a clear use, and the most reliable results usually come from slow, deliberate presentations.
Essential Concepts
Match lure to conditions
Paddle tails, flukes, spoons, topwater
Slow retrieve, natural profile
Shallow water redfish reward quiet movement, close observation, and clean presentations. Read the tide, target feeding edges, and keep bait or lures natural so fish see an easy meal.
Essential Concepts: fish quietly, follow the tide, present naturally, avoid overworking lures, use live shrimp, soft plastics, spoons, or circle hooks as conditions allow.