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Five Steps For Catching
Redfish
1)
Calculate
the best time
to fish for redfish by looking at the local tides. The
bigger tides like 2.0+ are best. Its important to know when
the tide will be at its lowest level (low tide) in the area
where you plan to fish for redfish. You need to be at your
spot shortly after dead low tide, just as the water is
starting to come in. Redfish feed best during the
incoming tide.
2)
Where you fish for
Redfish
must be determined by the tide level. Don't fish under
the mangroves during the early incoming tide phase.
Fish the creek mouths and pot holes leading up to the
mangroves. As the tide level increases you can start
working under the mangroves. As the tide level increases to
flood tide (1.8 - 2.2) the redfish will be anywhere from the
outskirts of the mangroves to a hundred feet back inside the
mangroves. The higher the tide the deeper into the mangroves
the redfish will feed. As soon as the redfish detect
the tide is changing and going out, they will move to the
outside of the mangroves to continue feeding. They will
follow the outgoing tide back to the creek mouths and pot
holes.
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3)
Wade
fishing with white bait, shrimp or pinfish is
the absolute best way to catch redfish. Anchor your boat a hundred yards
away from the mangroves at high tide and wade up to the overhanging mangroves.
Free line a shrimp or shiner underneath the overhanging mangroves and look out!
I have caught 50 -60 redfish a day this way, with many over 30 inches. You
can also wade to a near mangrove island from shore and use this technique.
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4)
Another
productive way to redfish a high tide is to use
a poppin' floater with 2 feet of 30-50 lb leader and a # 3-5.0 hook. Again
go with the shrimp, live white bait or a jig tipped with shrimp. Toss the rig as
close to the mangroves as possible and every 3-4 minutes jerk the rod and pop
the floater very loudly. This noise will get the attention of redfish
several hundred ft away and way back into the mangroves. When the popper
disappears set the hook! This method always works on high tides.
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5) Redfish
follow different patterns during different seasons on the
year. Sometimes they school up into hundreds of redfish
prowling the flats, sometimes they scatter out and you will
only find one here and one there. There are always redfish
on the flats year round, but you have to look for them in
different areas during the different
seasons. During cold fronts it can be difficult and
you might be better off fishing in the deep canals instead
of the flats.
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