Redfish are one of the most reliable inshore species to catch, but that doesn’t mean catching them is always easy. The fish’s tendency to be a bit spooky in shallow water, combined with sloppy ...

If you've never used spinner-baits for shallow-water redfish, you should, simply because they'll often get reds better than any lure you can cast, including spoons or jigs, plugs, and sometimes even ...

If you stop and think about it, a bass lure is only a bass lure if you’re throwing it for bass. Take the same bait off the lake and chuck in the bay and suddenly it’s a redfish lure. Throw your ...

But the Who Dat spoon's attractiveness to redfish is only part of what makes the lure so effective, Borchgrevink said. Like most South Louisiana anglers, he searches for redfish in ponds that hold ...

He casts it out, lets it fall to the bottom and begins a slow retrieve. "Don't work them at all," he advised. "It's a simple cast and retrieve, and it's as slow as you can go. If you're in current, ...

HOMOSASSA BAY — The 14-pound bull redfish plowed across the shallow flats after the gold spoon flashing in front of it. Its flat, broad head separated the water like a submarine preparing to ram an ...

One of the best-kept saltwater fishing secrets in the Titusville area is a little-known surface plug that was the brainstorm of a South Florida tackle wholesaler. Trader Bay Lures’ Primo Chugger has ...

PUNTA GORDA -- Redfish have come full circle in Florida. The species was almost decimated by commercial overfishing in the early 1980s and rebounded only when state and federal authorities instituted ...