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Inshore Saltwater Fishing Discussion Discuss inshore fishing, tackle, and tactics here! |
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Navarre beach mangroves
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Mangroves have super large eyes. U have to use super small dia. Floro. 20-40# and hide ur hook inside ur bait. We use 40-50# floro offshore with a small hook, 5/0- 3/0. We use live croakers or dead bait, but hide hook well in dead bait.
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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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Yeah these weren't big
Barely legal Y'all are right. I could have tried those things. Smaller test or fluorocarbon would have worked. Hiding a smaller hook in the bait may have worked too. Ugh thought I was a better fisherman than that. Didn't even think of fluorocarbon lol. Thanks guys. I'll get them next time. Kinda makes me wanna go back this weekend to prove to myself I can do it now but finances aren't there for another vacation. |
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Forget the fluorocarbon leader, or any leader for that matter, in water that clear. The lack of suppleness and flexibility will impart an unatural motion to live shrimp and reduce or eliminate the bite. I speak from many years of experience catching mangroves in the Keys.
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Mangroves are funny fish
I remember one time at the rigs in gulf shores we were catching mangroves on vudu shrimp when they wouldn't even bite a fresh shrimp It was so weird |
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