However, you can also catch a 30-plus-pound redfish on a piece of cut bait while fishing from a lawn chair on the beach if you know where to go and when.

Redfish are good on shrimp, blue crab and cut bait. Trout are good with croaker or shrimp free lined along rocks (Check out YouTube for information on freelining).

A cut pinfish or chunked ladyfish will do. Redfish like that because they have a good sense of smell. They are also bottom feeders so having cut bait sitting on the bottom does well.

8. In the north end of Tampa Bay, Weedon Island is really good for redfish on cut bait on the bottom. The redfish bite is good toward the causeway and south around Picnic Island.

They’re eating shrimp, cut crab and yellow color Berkley Gulp baits. Snook are pretty much everywhere and the redfish bite is good in the upper bay around Safety Harbor way.

FWC regulations begin Sept. 1 for releasing all caught redfish in the 156-mile Indian River Lagoon system. Snook season is open.

But he added that, “generally, cut bait works better than live bait.” And the ladyfish chunks also worked great for redfish. Luttana took us to one of his best spots, the edge of an oyster bar ...

FWC regulations begin Sept. 1 for releasing all caught redfish in the 156-mile Indian River Lagoon system. Snook season is open.