Bait snatchers!

Saltwater Inshore Discussion
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So I have googled and youtubed until I’m dizzy… Can anyone tell me or provide photos on the best way to hook a shrimp, live/dead, whole/headed? I try to hook it so - I think anyways - nothing could take the bait without getting the hook in the lip, but I get robbed alot:face_with_head_bandage:. I typically use a 2 or 3/0 circle hook. I know there is a sure fire way out there, but I also know bait fish can be the culprit:angry:…

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If you are constantly loosing shrimp under a cork, your probably over a bunch of pin fish. Move to another spot or go to a smaller hook and only put a pinch of shrimp on it if you want to target them.

As for hooking a shrimp, it is all about what you are targeting, size and how aggressively they are feeding.

I’d tell you how I hook mine, but I do it differently than my fishing partner and some days he smokes me and others I out do him. Since switching to circle hooks I’ve had to learn not to “set” the hook. I started out cane pole fishing, so I have a bad habit of snatch setting the hook.

I’ve been meticulous about not brain hooking the shrimp and keeping it alive and kicking were my dad would put the hook anywhere that was convenient and out fish me.

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Here is a link to SW Sportsman, it shows 5 different ways to rig shrimp for various types ways you plan to fish it.

Enjoy…
http://www.saltwatersportsman.com/techniques/rigging-live-shrimp

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I wish it were legal to dynamite a pod of pinfish. They are all over the place. I never release them, I use them for cutbait or as a counterweight in my cooler.

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Could be the sheeps haha

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Pinfish filet makes great trout bait !

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Scrimp is scrimp. Everything eats it, and its soft. My advice is if you get into some nuisance fish, abort! Maybe throw something heartier, like arties or a mud minnow, until you are sure your target fish is there. Then toss the scrimp.

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quote:
Originally posted by ChasRedFish

Here is a link to SW Sportsman, it shows 5 different ways to rig shrimp for various types ways you plan to fish it.

Enjoy…
http://www.saltwatersportsman.com/techniques/rigging-live-shrimp

Thanks! Great link!

Steph <*}}}><

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