How to catch Pigfish in Florida

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

Bait · in the book, no points

The grunting grass-flat perch that a gator trout will cross a flat for. Also good fried, but that's not why it's in the well.

A #4 hook and shrimp over grass, or a Sabiki; keep the four-inchers.

What it eats

shrimp bits on a small hookthe Sabiki

Sabiki or a small hook and shrimp on the grass flats; the grunting is the point — big trout hear it.

Free-lined or under a cork on a 2/0 circle hook for gator trout; on the bottom for grouper.

the sizes that fish it

Hook#8–#1

Braid10–15 lb

not confirmed here

Bait rules — confirm at MyFWC.