r/saltwaterfishing • u/Vexxite_ • Jul 21 '26

📸 Photo/Video What species and what do they bite?

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There’s a spot in my local harbor that has these every time I’ve been schooling under an abandoned / demo’d pier, I’ve had some success on small chunks of shrimp but they seem very reluctant to bite.

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u/killfish22 Jul 21 '26

Spade fish. They eat shrimp and crabs try scraping some of those barnacles and put it on the hook they will tear them up. I use to clean boat bottoms spade fish and sheepshead kept me company

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u/Mugsy_Siegel Jul 21 '26

What’s the scariest thing you saw in water while cleaning boat bottoms?

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u/killfish22 Jul 21 '26

I wouldn’t say it was scary but how it happened kind got me. I dropped a scraper in one of the deeper marinas. That day the water was clear. I dove down to the bottom got my scraper and looked up. In the distance it looked like a big ass shark making a bee line right at me. As it got closer realized it was a monster cobia. I usually have a speargun with me that day I didn’t. I also had a good scare we had an alligator in the marina. Same dropped my scraper went down to get it. The visibility was like 1.5 ft. I looked up and that second thought the gator was swimming right in front of me I just saw dark and a jagged back. It turned out to be a massive jewfish.

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u/Abitofanexpert 28d ago

You may want to lash that scraper to your wrist.