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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.

Dave Dennison is a patient angler. He will sit, watch and wait for the redfish to show themselves. The Brandon-based charter boat captain has been fishing Tampa Bay for more than 20 years and has ...

Cut bait such as mullet or ladyfish works very well for redfish, cobia, shark and even gator trout or snook. ... Redfish to 31 inches and sea trout to 18 took Zara Spook Jr.'s, ...

Fish or Cut Bait. By Chief Warrant Officer 4 Ian Mills April 7, 2016. Share on Twitter; ... redfish and flounder. What makes this kind of fishing fun is you never know what you're going to get.

Juveniles can be found schooling on the flats as do its cousin the redfish. When targeting black drum, the baits of choice should be shrimp, crabs, sand fleas and sometimes fresh cut bait.

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.

The biggest sharks are usually tigers or hammerheads that either take a big piece of cut bait intended for redfish or attack a hooked redfish. This episode was different for Sconyers, who operates ...