Has anyone been successful catching black drum on squid? Thanks
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i dont use squid. I’ve been using shrimp with much successes! and honestly when im splitting the shrimp in half, i get twice as many strikes on the main body part of the shrimp rather than the tail section.
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I have seen a black drum caught on squid from Edisto beach, amazingly I catch few black drum they seem to be a bit elusive
If your going for black drum, shrimp, mussles,clams and crabs. The eat fiddlers and chunked blue crab.
The bait used is not as important as where you put it. I love catching Black Drum. Pound for pound, they can pull Reds around all day. In the surf zone, you can pick up 3-5 pounders every now and then but for size and numbers, conditions have to be right. When you find them biting, you gotta keep baits in front of them. If I’m hunting for them 4 rods minimum, bait close and ready to “MOVE” with 'em. Have seen schools in water so shallow their backs are breaking the surface so fish close in 
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Gotta find some good troughs, cuts and gutters that run parallel on a medium tide after a full moon. The best features should still have some water in them at dead low…that means you gotta go find them at dead low. Fish the last 2-3 hours of the falling tide seems best, for me. If you start getting bites…it won’t last long usually 30-45 mins an hour tops, then the water will get too skinny for the bigger fish.
To echo 40, Shrimp FIRST, than anything else that lives in or on the bottom.
…OOPPS 
…just noticed “Inshore”…gettin’ old I suppose.
Kinda the same, fresh dead shrimp, structure, moving water. I’ve never fished with Squid so got no input.
I like to use fiddler crabs for them. The only problem is that sometimes I catch those pesky sheepshead. What a nuisance!
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