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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.

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.

FWC regulations begin Sept. 1 for releasing all caught redfish in the 156-mile Indian ... Mutton snapper to 14 pounds and mangrove snapper to 7 pounds are being caught on dead sardines and cut bait.