Locating trout offshore??

[mardigrastopsntails]

What are you keying on when trout fishing offshore?

[cmac23]

Good water is the #1 factor IMO!!!!

[I make oil]

Clean water, structure (either horizontal or vertical) and bait.

[Crawl79]

Originally Posted by I make oil

Clean water, structure (either horizontal or vertical) and bait.

Exactly, sometimes a one foot shell pad is all the structure that is needed. Remember that even offshore tide plays a big part in catching fish. Fish might be there and only picking up one or two. That tide can change and it will be on...

[mardigrastopsntails]

How far offshore are you guys running to find them? What baits do find work best? Going to try our luck in GI next weekend if the weather cooperates.

[Crawl79]

How far depends on your location of the state. But specifically water depth and water clarity.
If going out of GI for trout you don't have to go far or offshore at all.

[Top Dawg]

If you're going out of GI might as well try for mangroves

[Marque]

My key to catching trout offshore is a vast intelligence network of production operators strategically place around the shelf. It's the only reason my Facebook page is still open. That's sort of a joke but it's not. Once I figure out what platforms are holding fish it's pretty much like perch jerking. I got a buddy that lives by the rule that the fish will always congregate on the up current side of the rig, it's not always true but the first place ill try. Ii drop whatever bait I'm using down there and start reeling up, stopping at different intervals. A 1 ounce gig head I that a one ounce jig head works about the best for me. I find the fish are shallower early on at the beginning of the summer and get deeper as water temps increase. I don't really like to wait them out. I hit the sides that I can fish without being slammed into the platform and if I don't get a bite, I'm off like a prom dress.

[I make oil]

GI hit the beach this time of year.

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by I make oil

GI hit the beach this time of year.

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[Visco]

So... shell beach is not that far from GI. Is it the same as fishing that GI? I was there a few weeks ago and was skunked. What I did notice was that the amount of bait present was In sane, I threw the net for some live menhadden and was catching anywhere from 10 to 30 small croakers per throw. The only thing we hooked we hooked I to that day was hardheads.

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[fishinpox]

When I'm rig fishing for trout I look for
1) shell bottom
2) moving water
3) bait
4) dirty water doesn't bother me if its at least 20' deep because it will be clean toward the bottom
5) enough current but not more than where u have to use more than 3/8 - 1/2 oz jig head .
6) I start on tge down current side usually and present tge bait at different angles until I get a strike .
7) if there are blue fish or Spanish mackerel I try to cast past them let my bait sink then jig it into the trout strike zone . It that doesn't shake tge trash bite I leave because all bluefish n Spanish do is cost tackle