Rig a rod you can cast about 50 - 100 yards with a 3 ounce sinker. Any rod 8ft to 12ft (the longer the better for distance) is suitable for surf.
Leader setup: Use a Double hook leader with the weight on the bottom. Hook size 1 to 1/0 Kahle and or Circle hooks - the thinner the hook the better.
Leader is 20 or 30 lb test.
Tie a 50lb test black barrel swivel to your mainline, then tie the leader drop below with two hooks. You can go loop knot or use 3 way barrel swivels. I use 3 way barrels which help stand off the hooks and controls spin with the fishbite swimming in the surf.
Line to the reel around 15 lb test.
Add little colored floats above each hook.
Bait: buy shrimp flavored Fishbites (pink, orange and chartreuse).
Cast this up wind and up current out past the 2nd and or out to the 3rd sandbar.
Let the line swing with the current if its running and hold the rod in your hand...feeling for bites.
Looks like this and catches Florida Pompano, Whiting, Redfish, Bluefish, Blackdrum and the occasional Speckled trout.
Florida Pompano - excellent eating
Blackdrum - excellent eating in this size and note the shells. You want to find an area full of small little Coquina clams. Coquina clams are thumbnail sized clams, and you will note small shorebirds running up and down the sand, sticking their beaks into the sand rooting around to find them and Ghostshrimp. Read the tide line where sand and sea meet and read the birds and how they are feeding with beaks buried into the sand. Any area with shell and these signs = higher odds to scoring Pompano, Whiting and low slot sized Blackdrum.
Leader setup: Use a Double hook leader with the weight on the bottom. Hook size 1 to 1/0 Kahle and or Circle hooks - the thinner the hook the better.
Leader is 20 or 30 lb test.
Tie a 50lb test black barrel swivel to your mainline, then tie the leader drop below with two hooks. You can go loop knot or use 3 way barrel swivels. I use 3 way barrels which help stand off the hooks and controls spin with the fishbite swimming in the surf.
Line to the reel around 15 lb test.
Add little colored floats above each hook.
Bait: buy shrimp flavored Fishbites (pink, orange and chartreuse).
Cast this up wind and up current out past the 2nd and or out to the 3rd sandbar.
Let the line swing with the current if its running and hold the rod in your hand...feeling for bites.
Looks like this and catches Florida Pompano, Whiting, Redfish, Bluefish, Blackdrum and the occasional Speckled trout.
Florida Pompano - excellent eating
Blackdrum - excellent eating in this size and note the shells. You want to find an area full of small little Coquina clams. Coquina clams are thumbnail sized clams, and you will note small shorebirds running up and down the sand, sticking their beaks into the sand rooting around to find them and Ghostshrimp. Read the tide line where sand and sea meet and read the birds and how they are feeding with beaks buried into the sand. Any area with shell and these signs = higher odds to scoring Pompano, Whiting and low slot sized Blackdrum.
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