By Capt. David M Rieumont

Posted 9.27.08

Redfish was the focus this week because they were everywhere. North Pinellas has large schools of redfish on almost every flat. You just have to locate the school. A few ways to locate them is pull into any flat and start blind casting a gold spoon a topwater lure or toss a jig.



Another way is to anchor up and throw some live bait out and start chumming. No matter what live bait or deadbait we threw out a redfish would come along and eat it. The baits we used were scaled sardines, threadfins, pinfish, shrimp, and all the above baits cut. You can fish the cutbait on a circle. J hooks with cutbait require you pay strict attention to your line. Redfish will swallow the cutbait with the J hook if you don’t quickly pickup the bite. If you do use J hooks and a redfish swallows it just cut the line close as possible to the hook and the redfish will be fine. Use a 20 lb fluorocarbon leader with a size 1 or 1/0 hook. That should work. The fish this week when picking up a cutbait swam straight at the boat, which if not line watching we never would of known they were on.

We caught fish on almost every tide in any flat we stopped at. Bait is also thick anywhere near Howard Park in about 3 to 4 feet of water. The water temperature dropped a few degrees which made the fish very active even in the middle of the day.

Capt. Dave Rieumont
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