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Palaemonetes
How to catch Grass shrimp in Florida
Grass shrimp feed in 0–0°F water and bite best at 0–0°F.
Bait · in the book, no points
About
The inch-long clear shrimp in the grass of every brackish creek and freshwater edge, netted by the hundred and the best bait for bream, crappie, sheepshead and mangrove snapper that no shop sells.
How to fish it
A fine-mesh dip net swept through the grass and around the pilings at low tide; keep them in a bucket with a little grass.
What it eats
a fine dip net through the grass
Getting it, rigging it
Getting it
A fine dip net through the grass and the dock pilings in the brackish creeks and the freshwater edges; a hundred in ten minutes.
Rigging it
Two or three on a #6 hook under a small cork — the bream, crappie, sheepshead and mangrove snapper bait nobody sells.
What it's for
SheepsheadBluegillRedear sunfish (shellcracker)Black crappie (speck)Suwannee bassShoal bassWarmouthRedbreast sunfishSpotted sunfish (stumpknocker)White catfishMayan cichlidOscarWhite perch
What to fish it with
the sizes that fish itHook#8–#1
Braid10–15 lb
The rule
not confirmed hereNo limit.
The current rule at MyFWC →