In clear water it is much more difficult to catch mangroves. When my family had a home in the lower Keys we would catch the shallow water mangroves with live shrimp on a small live bait hook....NO LEADER.....just 6-10lb test (these are not the 5+ lb Louisana mangroves mind you) You have to free line the live shrimp and it has to swim free with ZERO tight lining. Works like a charm. Trick is to get live shrimp in that neck of the woods. We could get them just by the house on Cudjoe Key and elsewhere in the lower keys but I'm not sure about the panhandle.
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