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2020, Best Live Bait for Redfish - William Toney
This redfish live bait video features one of Florida's top inshore fishing guides, Captain William Toney, sharing tactics and techniques for catching bait and rigging bait. You will learn about pinfish, shrimp and mud minnows and why each, when rigged the right way, make excellent redfish bait choices. You will learn how to trap them, use hook and line to catch them or in the case of shrimp what to look for when buying them. Captain William Toney goes into great detail on trapping pinfish. He will show you the type of trap to use, what to bait it with and where to place it to catch a load of pinfish. You will learn why the selection of the buoy you use will help prevent having your bait from being stolen. William will also show you how to set your trap with a subsurface buoy that only you can find and retrieve, the next day. You have to be smart with your bait traps. Pinfish and mud minnows are superb redfish live bait options. If you don't care about trapping them, you will see how to catch bait with hook and line. With the regulations the way they are in Florida, daily limits are small, so you don't need tons of bait and catching where you are fishing is sometimes the best way to go. Where there is a population of redfish, you will have pinfish also. They are really easy to catch, as you will see in this redfish video. All you need is a spare rod rigged for catching bait. When it comes to redfish rigs for live bait, Captain William Toney will show you how he makes the rig and hooks each of the baits. He will show you the leader material he uses, the 3/0 hooks he likes and how he ties the leader to his braid. They is definite thought that goes into the placement of the hook in each bait. Depending on whether you are free lining or casting, your hook placement will differ. With shrimp, you will learn how to hook live shrimp and not kill them. William will show you head and tail rigs. The tail hooking method is better for casting. For pinfish, you will learn the hook them in the back and in the nose. These redfish live bait rigs for pinfish are lethal and very easy to learn. William will also give you options of modifying the pinfish for either increase scent or vibration in the water. Rigging mud minnows is very similar to the pinfish rig. These minnows are undervalued, but should not be overlooked. They are a strong bait that can hold up all day. Hooking them in the back allows for great free lining of the bait into cover. There are a few observations to pay attention to when it comes to hook placement in all of these baits. You do not want to kill them or paralyze them before putting them out. William Toney exudes confidence when you is on the water and you can also, if you follow the simple redfish live bait tactics and techniques he shares in this comprehensive video. If you haven't checked out any of the other In The Spread redfish videos, please browse our library. They is a lot to learn.
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2019, Florida Bass Fishing - Live Bait PreSpawn
What can be said about Central Florida bass fishing and hauling in big fish all year? Well, Capt. Nick Kefalides is on big bass all the time. When other guys aren\'t catching big\'uns, he is. Nick is a slick USMC Spec Ops veteran that is fishyAF. If you have not seen any of his other In The Spread bass fishing videos, you are in for a heady download of how to fish for bass prespawn with live bait. Nick\'s ability to articulate in a very distilled message makes him an exceptional instructor. As Nick says, “live bait gives you the absolute best opportunity to nail a trophy fish”. Join Nick on Lake Toho for prespawn bass fishing and see how to present baits to weed edges, open water beds and heavy structure. Learn live bait trolling and drifting techniques and how to fish for bass on heavy structure and ledges. See the type of bait Nick prefers and his bait rigging technique. If you want to learn more about live bait techniques for Florida prespawn bass fishing, this instructional fishing video is your road map. Learn from the best and fish smarter.
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2018, Bottom Fishing Musky with Live Suckers
When most think of muskie fishing, live bait does come to mind, but anchoring and camping up on a structure is practically unheard of. Even less accepted is utilizing the bottom itself in presentation; most musky anglers always gotta be on the move. Joe Murphy, though, has other ideas. In this In The Spread musky fishing video, Joe shows us the virtue of anchoring and setting live bait lines on specific areas of bottom topography, how to give your bait the best rigging for both stationary control and having a good \"leash\", and being able to place them for maximum efficiency. This is true \"musky hunting\"...staking out trails the fish move upon and waiting for your quarry like a true hunter, instead of constantly chasing them. Use this fishing video to broaden you knowledge of how to catch muskie using live bait while on anchor.
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2018, Live Bait Snook Fishing - Chokoloskee Florida
Snook are the ultimate ambush predator roaming the inshore and backcountry tropical waters of the western Atlantic, Caribbean and Central America. Snook fishing Florida is a dynamic environment where big fish await. You can target them with bait or lures. What we do in this In The Spread fishing video is show you how to catch snook using live bait. This may, at first, seem straight forward, but knowing which baits work the best and the ideal size for both chumming and presentation. You will need more than you think and a way to keep them alive. We will discuss all the live bait variables for snook. We teamed up with Chokoloskee fishing guide Brian Sanders to break down live bait snook fishing. Brian will explain how tides drive the bite, his preferred tackle, his live bait rig, how to present baits, boat positioning and a range of angling techniques. Learn about the areas snook like to hold, so they can ambush prey. You will learn a great deal about how to present live bait and keep it in the strike zone longer. Brian is a lifeline snook fish angler and has developed an impressive array of tactics and strategies for his snook program. He will sharing everything you need to know to be the best live bait snook fisherman you can be. Learn from the best and fish smarter.
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