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How to catch Shrimp in Florida
Shrimp feed in 0–0°F water and bite best at 0–0°F.
Bait · in the book, no points
About
The universal bait: the white, brown and pink shrimp of the bays, sold live by the dozen at every bait shop and netted by the bucket under a light on the winter runs.
How to fish it
On a winter night with an outgoing tide, a light off a bridge or a seawall and a long-handled dip net; the run can fill a cooler. Or the bait shop.
What it eats
a dip net under a light on the outgoing tide
Getting it, rigging it
Getting it
Every bait shop sells them by the dozen; net your own at night under a light on an outgoing tide in the winter runs.
Rigging it
Under a popping cork or free-lined, hooked under the horn on a #1 to 2/0 circle hook; on a jig head for the bottom. The universal inshore bait.
What it's for
SnookRedfishSpotted seatroutSheepsheadFlounderMangrove snapperPompanoTripletailBlack drumBonefishPermitYellowtail snapperWhitingLadyfishLookdownSand seatroutGafftopsail catfishAtlantic croakerLane snapperHogfishBlack sea bassGray triggerfishWhite gruntJolthead porgyAtlantic spadefishBonnethead sharkAtlantic sharpnose sharkBlacknose sharkWeakfish (gray trout)Silver seatroutPalometaYellow jackSilver perchSpotSand perchSouthern stingraySchoolmaster snapperMahogany snapperRed hind (strawberry grouper)Nassau grouperWhite catfishAtlantic cutlassfish (ribbonfish)Bluefin trevally (omilu)
What to fish it with
the sizes that fish itHook#8–#1
Braid10–15 lb
The rule
not confirmed hereRecreational shrimping has a daily limit and gear rules — confirm at MyFWC.
The current rule at MyFWC →