Recently I spoke to someone who strongly advocated inshore trolling. After doing a little research on the topic, I found that redfish, flounder, trout, tarpon, cobia, bluefish, and ladyfish can all be caught this way. I was thinking about giving it a shot in the not too distant future…anybody ever tried it?
Pretty much standard procedure around here for specks, especially in the winter months.
oc
Trolling live or artificial? What depth and type of location?
SportAngler - I’m interested in the inshore trolling as well. My plan is to try artificial baits (mixture of bucktails and spoons) over/along sandbars and dropoffs in the St. Helena Sound area beginning the weekend of the 13th. My experience with trolling has been strictly stripers in freshwater. Hopefully some of the same tactics will work for bluefish, redfish, trout, etc. Since no one on here wants to talk much about it - it must work great!! Won’t know until I try it. I’ll post a report once I’ve had a chance to try it a few times.
Kevin
1720 Sea Hunt w/ 90hp Yam
M’Ocean Sickness
I used to troll as a way to locate fish. Find em and double back and work the area. It works but i never saw big numbers. People new to lowcountry inshore often try trolling until they figure out how to use a popping cork over structure. Caught a few flounder trolling a mud minnow behind a small spinner. Dont remember ever catching a redfish trolling, mostly trout near the grass.
Caught tons of trout and flounder this way. My experiences have always been best along grass lines with multiple feeder creeks in less than 10 feet of water. I use paddle or curly tail grubs with jig heads with enough weight to keep the lure bumping the bottom. If they aren’t bumping bottom slow down or add more weight and like the last gentleman mentioned, if you get a bite (especially trout) double back and work the area more. good luck!
BGC
ditto on what everyone said in my experience with a good friend OT.
mainly trout right up next to the grass bumping bottom slowly in forward idle.
relaxing if you’re in the mood to just cruise and catch a few fish.
not near as exciting as tearing up a mess of bass.
Y’all see that? Tarpon call me a gentleman! Thanks dude.
My guess is that he has not seen the purple tights and the orange crocs yet… 
2007 Scout 221 150 Yamaha 4 stroke
Ok well I’ll give it a shot, thanks! Has anyone else tried trolling plugs or lipless lures like rattletraps?
Looking forward to it Ulmer! I’ll do the same.