LIVE Q&A for May 22nd: Live Bait Basics – Ask YOUR Questions
- By: Luke Simonds
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New to live bait? Want to sharpen your rigging, presentation, and bait-handling skills? We’ve got you covered.
Whether you’re free-lining shrimp, pitching pinfish, or dropping croakers down deep… this session is packed with tips to help you catch more fish and waste less time.
Salt Strong’s own Mark Dunnam is joined the crew to share some of his go-to tactics on this weeks live Q&A.
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STOP WASTING TIME ON THE WATER!
Do what the “SMART ANGLERS” are doing and join the Insider Club.
Here’s what you’ll receive today when you join:
- Weekly fishing reports and TRENDS revealing exactly where you should fish every trip
- Weekly “spot dissection” videos that walk you through all the best spots in your area
- Exclusive fishing tips from the PROS you can’t find anywhere else
- Everything you need to start catching fish more consistently (regardless if you fish out of a boat, kayak, or land).
Well it’s hard to make it on that day for me but thanks for leaving it up to see later lots to learn thanks again very interesting topics
I have the same question as Lee Smithey below, I have the Engel bait cooler, rechargeable pump and the foam feet on my cooler. It does put out quite a bit of noise still. I’m assuming if I can hear it, the fish can too?
Any tips for using live bait on a kayak (storing & rigging)? I’d like to reduce the chances of dropping a live shrimp in my lap 🙂
Sara See Tony Acevedo he has a review on that; I took his advice and I’m using my 1-gallon Minnow bucket works like a charm
Thanks Angel. I haven’t searched the topic yet because I’ve only been using artificial but am looking to maybe add live bait to my arsenal.
I’ve seen these rigs called shrimp walker hooks, a cap slides over the shrimp’s horn without hooking it, do you think they could be beneficial?
DON’T waste your money.
there is a review on that item here on the website.
don’t waste your money, there is a review on that on this website.
Bait shrimp here are currently whoppers (bigger than full-size Prawn). Do you ever hook both head & tail instead of just either on an xl shrimp? Have heard this can land more but seems like it would limit swimming action a lot
also when would you decide to free-line a shrimp vs weighting it somehow?
Does keeping live bait in a plastic cooler on a kayak scare fish? I’ve heard conflicting things about it. I’ve caught fish using one, but if it affects my chances and I could catch more without it, I’d love to know!