Tips on how to catch redfish

These guys give a good rundown on common redfish baits you may want to try.

Gold Spoon or Cracked Crab?

-Ride into some dudes lease (don’t anchor ir get hung up)
-find a point or cut
-throw Tsunami
-set hook
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ETA: Good luck man! I don't fish them much, but I thoroughly enjoy fishing for them on 1 or 2 cold winter mornings when I know they are stacked up in dead end canals and am tired of not killing ducks.

What about gear? What should I bring that I wouldn’t normally for freshwater?

Braided line?

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Tips on how to catch redfish

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Try to catch specs.

I use braided line all the time. Catch a few little crab at the bank, smash them, and use that on a hook. Cracked crab is like crack to redfish.

We used to catch them when they were tailing in the shallows in Big Lake and Moss Lake. We'd see the tail and dorsal break the surface and throw a few feet in front with either a spoon or plastic shrimp.

That and working the birds over Big Lake using a popping cork with a white/red tail grub....smoked them there too.

1. Easiest way is dead shrimp under slip cork in cuts with moving water.

2. Fish like you would for bass.

South Carolina redfish prefer dead shrimp over any other bait I ever tried. The problem is that everything else in the water also likes shrimp. So if you are just looking to get a tug on the line from whatever is biting, along with a couple of redfish, use dead shrimp on the bottom. Use a circle hook or kahle hook to avoid gut-hooking the ones that you must release.

If you are specifically targeting reds and don't want to catch anything else, then go with lures. I always had the best luck with scented soft plastics such as Exude or Gulp products.