Inshore Saltwater fishing/tackle/lure/bait/rig necessities and recommendations

Owner inshore slam hooks
Seaguar premier fluoro leaders
Sufix 832 braid
Shimano reels
Alot of rods will work fine

This is some of the stuff I use. I'm sure there is more than 1 answer.

Matrix shad in shrimp creole, honestly all the colors work
I use H&H jig heads 1/4-3/8 oz. double or single rigged
Fake,I mean artificial shrimp of your choice - I use TKO in shrimp creole from Matrix. DOA, Vudu, whatever you want, I find they all work under a popping cork when they want shrimp and are not being picky enough for live.
Popping corks! I use the old school weighted Styrofoam corks but they make some fancy corks these days
Mirrolures! They have some good styles on sale at Academy on clearance for $1.48-$2.48!!! 52MR, Topdog, Shedog, mirrodine, Popping mullet are some of the few I picked up. 52MR EC and TTR/STTR EC are my go to.
I use Octopus hooks for live bait under those popping corks or on a drop shot
Some 2oz egg sinkers and some beads to make knocker rigs with a 7/0 or similar hook for rigging crab for Reds/Black drum

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use H&H jig heads 1/4-3/8 oz. double or single rigged
Fake,I mean artificial shrimp of your choice - I use TKO in shrimp creole from Matrix. DOA, Vudu, whatever you want, I find they all work under a popping cork when they want shrimp and are not being picky enough for live.
Popping corks! I use the old school weighted Styrofoam corks but they make some fancy corks these days
Mirrolures! They have some good styles on sale at Academy on clearance for $1.48-$2.48!!! 52MR, Topdog, Shedog, mirrodine, Popping mullet are some of the few I picked up. 52MR EC and TTR/STTR EC are my go to.
I use Octopus hooks for live bait under those popping corks or on a drop shot

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All this.. If you are unsure of what color soft plastic (cocahoe, curly tail, etc...) to use then go with Chartreuse color. I also usually throw hard baits in a red head/white body or bone/neon green.

If I was just starting out and didn'want to pay Shimano prices for a spinning rod/reel then I would buy Okuma or Daiwa. I think their new reels are nice and the Okuma "DTB" rods at Puglias feel really nice.

For trout:

Topwaters
Dive baits

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Is there a perfect trout rod?

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i like the St. Croix 7' medium-light, but I fish mostly topwaters and dive baits.

I also still have some old falcon rods that I use.

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I don't know that they make the lighter rods anymore. BTW, I hate the rods with the bulb on the butt end, as opposed to the full cork.

I break my tackle bag into 4 boxes.
1 - redfish
-Johnson spoons
-Various bullet weights
-Gamakatsu offset superline ewg hooks
-berkley rattle shrimp
-Tko shrimp
-vudu shrimp

2 - trout jighead box
-all weight golden eye jig heads
-all weight screw on jig heads (for softer swim baits)

3 - topwater/corky box
-skitterwalks
-top dogs
-she dogs
-various size corkys

4 - live bait/jerk bait
-egg sinkers
-treble hooks
-khale hooks
-various jerk baits/hard plastics

-swim baits in various sizes and a mixture of dark/realistic colors.
-craws for sight casting redfish with texas rigs
-bag of popping corks