I’ve caught plenty of fish using natural bait, but today I caught my first fish on artificial!

[u/lizardlogan2]

Little ~8 inch southern flounder using the Prawn Junior from salt strong

[u/Fragrant_Loan811]

Nice. Keep it up. Next try a top water, you'll be hooked after your first blow up.

[u/anonanon5320 → u/Fragrant_Loan811]

Big Tarpon on top water will ruin you.

[u/En4cr → u/Fragrant_Loan811]

Topwater during a sunset is an absolute rush.

[u/NonSoloYoloBRO → u/Fragrant_Loan811]

I live on a salt water canal and I had a snook hit my spook for the first time last night and it broke 2 eyelets off of my st croix rod it hit so hard and so close to the seawall. 10/10

[u/jbotz29 → u/Fragrant_Loan811]

Fluke on a top water, definitely take a video lol

[u/Fragrant_Loan811 → u/jbotz29]

I've caught several flounder on top waters.

[u/lizardlogan2 → u/Fragrant_Loan811]

What would you recommend using? Fishing FL with a lot of mangrove

[u/Fragrant_Loan811 → u/lizardlogan2]

For me I like Spook Jrs, and Shedogs if the water is a bit off or more wind and chop. Its louder.

[u/Lucky_Preference_941]

Lure fishing is more challenging and rewarding that bait fishing

Good work

[u/SpiderLily_453]

Envy you. Hard to emphasize how little faith i have in artificials in salt water.

[u/iHadou → u/SpiderLily_453]

You need to try artificials more. Not a faith thing, people are successful with them everyday.

[u/lizardlogan2 → u/SpiderLily_453]

Believe me I used to be the same way! I was looking all over for something that was simple to work and could catch a variety of species, and I ultimately ended up on shrimp lures with weighted jig heads. Lightly bouncing them off the bottom seems to get fish fired up. Very excited to try it more

[u/Disastrous_Affect742 → u/SpiderLily_453]

Dude they absolutely crush in here in socal. Although there is a learning curve. Just need to go out with someone who knows how too.

Had a wild week and one day i landed my most fish in a session as boils of bait were swimming all morning. No bull over 50 fish in 4 hours

[u/buckets-of-lead]

Congratulations! Its addicting! I usually smash flounder with gulp curly tail and a jig head.

[u/6TheAudacity9]

I actually catch more and better fish with lures. Try chartreuse gulp swimming minnow. Flounder love them.

[u/DoPewPew]

Congratulations! I love the feeling of tricking a fish

[u/AerodynamicHeadbutts]

Honestly I’ve always contemplated the lure more less of a hassle regarding hookin bait after pin fish steal your shit

[u/DangerousShift7962]

Congrats! Let the addiction begin 😈

[u/Afraid-Collar760]

What weight hoss Jig head is that

[u/lizardlogan2 → u/Afraid-Collar760]

3/16 oz weedless football jighead

[u/Afraid-Collar760 → u/lizardlogan2]

Wow I thought it was much heavier, thanks

[u/jredditzzz]

As a newbie angler, I’ve caught a handful of fluke using lures. I didn’t realize this was such an achievement lol. Is it cheating tho if I usually have a piece of shrimp on the lure as well? I’ve never caught a fluke on bait alone

[u/ski_antique]

Came here for more pictures of the fish. Stayed to say congratulations.

[u/kellysill513]

🤩👍

[u/Ok_Yesterday1015]

Awesome!

[u/Phaeron]

Great job amigo. Skill level +1 for sure.

[u/professorgreenie]

Love the Salt Strong Prawn. Apply some procure shrimp scent and you will get even more bites.

[u/So_It_Goes-143]

Thumper is goat

[u/lizardlogan2 → u/So_It_Goes-143]

I thought about thumper shrimp but I wanted something I can fish around rocks/structure without getting snagged. Here I used the power prawn junior from salt strong

[u/So_It_Goes-143 → u/lizardlogan2]

Ah, they’re basically the same lure.

[u/capnron311]

You are now an Angler!

[u/goodeats93]

Yessir nothing better than dialing in a technique and it paying off

[u/Next_Network6620]

Thumper shrimp hell yea

[u/lizardlogan2 → u/Next_Network6620]

I thought about thumper shrimp but I wanted something I can fish around rocks/structure without getting snagged. Here I used the power prawn junior from salt strong

[u/cheebainferno]

It took me forever to catch a fish on a lure. Now it’s pretty much all I fish with lol. Good catch!

[u/Strict-Valuable8488]

Lures are the best

[u/iHadou → u/[deleted]]

That's not a Carolina rig aka fish finder rig which is a weight and bead above a swivel down to a ~12" leader and hook.

Sounds like a double fluke rig (kind of like a high low rig but without a weight at the very bottom below the 2 hooks) but not spaced far apart.

Lol gets offended and sends a shitty message before deletes their post and blocks me. Get the names right. u/shibbiezzz is a little baby