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Your top 3 trout baits for fishing the islands this time of year
Posted on 6/10/26 at 9:36 am
Posted on 6/10/26 at 9:36 am
Heading to my cousins fishing camp near Cocodrie next weekend and want to stock up on some artificial baits so I don't use his stash up.
We are fishing the islands and the sulpher mine mostly.
Thanks in advance.
We are fishing the islands and the sulpher mine mostly.
Thanks in advance.
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Posted on 6/10/26 at 9:38 am to hogminer
1. Mirrodine/corky floater
2. Matrix on 1/8oz or 1/4oz depending on depth
3. Topwater. This goes to #1 when conditions allow.
These are just what I like. Everybody has their thing.
2. Matrix on 1/8oz or 1/4oz depending on depth
3. Topwater. This goes to #1 when conditions allow.
These are just what I like. Everybody has their thing.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 9:51 am to hogminer
1. Suspending Twitch Bait - Mirrolure mirrodine, Mirrolure soft dine, mirrolure catch 2000. Bone, green back, or black back
2. Down South Southern Shad 1/4 or 1/8 oz jig head
3. Top water - Bone color. Rapala Skitterwalk, zara spook, or Mirrolure She Dog
2. Down South Southern Shad 1/4 or 1/8 oz jig head
3. Top water - Bone color. Rapala Skitterwalk, zara spook, or Mirrolure She Dog
Posted on 6/10/26 at 9:52 am to hogminer
1. Artificial shrimp. Pick your favorite. Recently switched to Marker 54, but have done well with TKO and even H&H in the past.
2. Matrix Shad
3. Mirrordine
2. Matrix Shad
3. Mirrordine
Posted on 6/10/26 at 10:05 am to hogminer
Marker 54 for sure. I like the Shrimp Creole color Matrix Shad as well.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 10:29 am to hogminer
quote:
want to stock up on some artificial baits so I don't use his stash up.
If he goes a lot, just ask him what he uses. He’d appreciate that you acknowledge him a an expert and that y ou aren’t using up his stash.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 10:41 am to hogminer
I am old school….purple sparkle beetle fished in the surf,
This post was edited on 6/10/26 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 6/10/26 at 11:02 am to Spankum
Prolly caught more fish than any soft plastic in da history of soft plastic.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 12:15 pm to hogminer
my top 3 when going to the islands...
Purple/gold cocahoe minnow
Top Dog jr red/white
chartreuse sparkle beetle
but i also will not go to the islands without live cocahoe minnows or the ability to get live croakers/pogies. I prefer artificials but sometimes the trout don't
Purple/gold cocahoe minnow
Top Dog jr red/white
chartreuse sparkle beetle
but i also will not go to the islands without live cocahoe minnows or the ability to get live croakers/pogies. I prefer artificials but sometimes the trout don't
Posted on 6/10/26 at 1:08 pm to hogminer
What? No shad rigs? Lol
Posted on 6/10/26 at 1:10 pm to hogminer
Live minnows
Live shrimp
Live croakers
Well you asked…….
Live shrimp
Live croakers
Well you asked…….
Posted on 6/10/26 at 2:12 pm to redfish99
quote:
Live shrimp
Do your grass beds not have pinfish?
Posted on 6/10/26 at 2:25 pm to bluemoons
quote:
3. Topwater. This goes to #1 when conditions allow.
This is my first, second, and third....
sand eel on jig head is 4th.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 2:48 pm to LanierSpots
quote:
Do your grass beds not have pinfish?
The ones I fish sure do which is why I find the Mirrodine so effective. Couldnt say for the West of Ms River around Grand Isle / Cocodrie.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 7:48 pm to Saskwatch
quote:
The ones I fish sure do which is why I find the Mirrodine so effective. Couldnt say for the West of Ms River around Grand Isle / Cocodrie.
Yea, I can not float live shrimp or dead shrimp over the grass here. Just too frustrating.
I have used the Zman Prawnstar under a cork and done OK but in the end, I do my best on a 3" swimbait and 3/8oz swimbait head for them.
Posted on 6/10/26 at 9:55 pm to hogminer
It's not rocket surgery. A plastic that looks like a minnow and a plastic that looks like a shrimp. Super easy fish to catch, I also have no shame and will get my limit with a popping cork.
Posted on 6/11/26 at 5:46 am to hogminer
Shrimp creole matrix shad under 4 horsemen cork
DOA 3” holographic shrimp under 4 horsemen cork
1/2 oz chartreuse/black back rattletrap.
If they can’t be caught on these in the hot months, go back to the camp and get intoxicated.
DOA 3” holographic shrimp under 4 horsemen cork
1/2 oz chartreuse/black back rattletrap.
If they can’t be caught on these in the hot months, go back to the camp and get intoxicated.
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:03 am to hogminer
My neighbor charters. He's been tearing them up on double rigged sparkle beetles in RootBeer color, both under a cork and on the btm.
This post was edited on 6/11/26 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 6/11/26 at 9:01 am to Koolazzkat
How do you cork fishers decide on bait depth?
Posted on 6/11/26 at 10:57 am to hogminer
1/4 and 1/8 ounce jig heads. Use a fluorocarbon leader. 20lbs
#1 Down South southern shad in kickin chicken and frozen smoke
#2 Lil John in chartreuse ice and space dust
#3 Sparkle beetle in glow/glitter and chartreuse fire tail
#4 catch 2000
#5 she-dog
#1 Down South southern shad in kickin chicken and frozen smoke
#2 Lil John in chartreuse ice and space dust
#3 Sparkle beetle in glow/glitter and chartreuse fire tail
#4 catch 2000
#5 she-dog
This post was edited on 6/11/26 at 11:07 am
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