So I've got my new (for me) bay boat...now what?
 

It's been five years since I've fished for specks/redfish/flounder...Starting a new tackle box...What would you have in your new tackle box?
Lures..Jig heads..hooks..line..I'm gonna have a budget of $300.00..What are your recommendations?
Got reels and rods (thank goodness) so fill up my tackle box with your suggestions and help a new/old guy !
Btw, I'll post pics of my rig in the boating section as soon as I figure out how to get them from an iphone to this forum.
Thanks guys!!!!!
Oh and I do think I can help if you're going to Toledo Bend, we have a camp there and can give pretty good advice on crappie...

Jerk jr glow/chart, skitterwalks, yella mouth jigs1/4 and 1/8 oz, sparle beetles, and go get some

1/8, 1/4 and 3/8 ounce jig heads. glow/chart, black/chart, chicken on a chain, and opening night sand eel jrs. glow and avocado salty grubs. maybe a few norton bull minnows. and any kind of gulp for flounder. maybe a few popping corks if you like that. 20 or 30 pound suffix braid with some 20 lb flourocarbon leader. oh and some skitterwalks, everyone likes to catch a trout on topwater

dont forget purple/chart sand eel jrs or jerk jrs. If you arent into fishing with braid use 12-15lb mono. I always use low vis green color. Also glow DOA shrimp

Starting out again. Keep it simple a tackle box is like wine It takes time.
One of my favorites and almost always works.
Chartreuse cochahoe double rigs with red heads or sparkle beetle but I find the cochoes work better & [SIZE=3]popping corks I like the short ones with the stick and no weight so they don’t splash as much when you throw them and spoke fish.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]Gotta get good hooks and weights for live bait Doesn’t have to be the most expensive hooks.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3]Get a few top dogs but don’t invest a lot in that stuff until you feed your need for caching. Then the top water and jig baits will start to invade your tackle box little by little. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]If you haven’t fished for awhile I would stay away from the braided lines until my techniques are refined. The last thing you want to do is start out with a bunch of tangled braided lines.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]Just my opinon.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]Good luck and even on the worst day fishing it will always be better than the best day working.[/SIZE]

Just buy a bunch of bone colored she-dogs and a bucket of gulp shrimps


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all you need:
-few packs of curly tail grubs( skull draggerz) OR SPARLE BEETLES in these colors: opening night, avacado, pearl/truce, purple/truce.
-few packs of yellow mouth jig heads short shank !/8 oz, 1/4 oz, 3/8 oz
- spook jrs( topwater) in the following colors, : smoke/truce, pearl/clear/truce, red/white, clown, chrome.
-a few suspending baits like a corky, catch 2000, or manic mullett.

i fish with 20 lb power pro ( braid) and a 15 lb fluro leader

^^^^^what he said^^^^^

Cast net an hooks.
Covers most fish
But them trout rigs old school ar so old school good when da skirts fall off paint um an put a new fangeld rubber on.

Keep it simple. I use a old bordens gallon ice-cream bucket an zip locks......keep da rest o da cash fur gas
Good luck an frie a speck fur me

I am with Pox.

Pox is right on if you fishing east side.

Ally ou guys covered speck baits, if you going to be up in the Marsh for reds i would definately get a couple Johnson Gold Spoons, a few 1/2 oz. Baby 1- in blue and white, maybe a few spinner's with a black and chartuese cocahoe minnow.

For $300 you can get a lot of stuff for a tackle box.

For jig heads i would get them unapainted and leave them that way.

Cant go wrong with glow anything. Glow/char jerk jrs, sand eel jrs, salty grubs. Hackberry hustlers aint bad. Gulp swimming mullet in chartruese or pearl, shrimp in pearl. 1/8th and 1/4 oz jig heads, I prefer yellowmouth but ask some and they say jighead style dont matter. Purple/char in same baits for certain days. Good luck, go catch some fish!