Anyone have some favorite baits for trout, drum and flounder? We typically throw plastic baits (Gulp shrimp, mullets, curly tails, Lil Fishies, jerk shad, etc) with the occasional mirrolures or topwater. Sometimes I use a popping cork and other times just a jig head. Not too many live baits just becuase it's more convenient to use artificial.

We have an inhore tourney coming up and I'm looking to add some things to my tackle bag.

try some vudu shrimp either under a popping cork or just free line them....they are trout killers

find them here

www.egretbaits.com

let me know if you win the tournament....

Thanks...those look great. I'll have to order a few. It should be a good trout catch for this year's tourney. We had a cold fish kill in the winter which promted a halt on the taking of trout. Without the gill netters raping the resource I've heard the trout are doing well this spring.


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Any particular color that seems to work better than the others?

tiger, natural, chartreuse are some that have done well for me here in Florida....they are very durable and you can catch many more fish on each bait than any plastic I have used...let me know how they do for you....

Lure Jensen Krocodiles can be an absolute killer and you can use them as jigs or lures. They work on bottom fish, rock fish, salmon, trout.



I'd match the colors to your baitfish, and get some plane silver ones as well.

I remember fishing lake Michigan (northwest indiana) about twenty years ago. Fellas were fishing browns, cohos, steelhead...mostly bait, squid under a a float, the bite was slow. Most were fishing the outflow of a power plant discharge.

The wind picked up and I happened to see the 2-3 ft. surf roll in and spotted what looked like fish in the waves. I tied on a krocodile spoon in pink and pearl and started casting far into the surf. I proceeded to wail on the brown trout.
When I left guys were lining up on the beach,but few had Kroc spoons. A few lil Cleo tossers were scoring....but no one had the success I experienced with the Kroc..helluva hard bait.

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Some days I've had good luck on puppy drum, (smaller redfish up to 7lbs) keeper stripers and trout inside the Oregon Inlet bridge with silver/blue Rattle Traps but some didn't have much color left. Lead head jigs with a green or chartruse trailer also work pretty well. Overall it's still hard to beat bait.

This one



Purple and chartreuse queen cacahoe minnow

We won overall weight(3 fish) and big trout. 9.9# total with a 3.65# trout. We caught the trout and drum early and had to fish hard for 5 hours to get a keeper flounder.

Good tourney and turn out with 30 boats.