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Speedo (redtail scad)
Photo: Julien Bidet for Seamarc, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Decapterus tabl · also redtail scad

How to catch Speedo in Florida

Speedo feed in 0–0°F water and bite best at 0–0°F.

Bait · in the book, no points

About

The red-tailed scad of the Keys reefs, the kite bait that sailfish, kingfish and blackfin cannot leave alone, and hard to come by on the days it matters most.

How to fish it

Sabiki over the reef edge and the wrecks at first light; a round, dark well keeps them alive.

What it eats

the Sabiki at dawn on the reef

Getting it, rigging it

Getting it

Sabiki around the Keys reefs and wrecks at dawn; the best kite bait in the islands.

Rigging it

Bridled through the nose on a kite or slow-trolled for sailfish, kingfish and blackfin.

What it's for

What to fish it with

the sizes that fish it
Hook#8–#1
Braid10–15 lb

The rule

not confirmed here

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