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Lagodon rhomboides
How to catch Pinfish in Florida
Pinfish feed in 0–0°F water and bite best at 0–0°F.
Bait · in the book, no points
About
The striped, spiny, bait-stealing perch of every grass flat and dock in Florida — and the hardiest live bait there is, for snook, grouper, cobia and everything else.
How to fish it
A pinfish trap baited with a squashed crab on a grass flat overnight, a Sabiki over grass, or a #6 hook and a shrimp bit off the dock.
What it eats
shrimpsquidanything on a #6 hook
Getting it, rigging it
Getting it
A pinfish trap baited with a squashed crab or fish scraps on a grass flat, or a Sabiki over grass. The hardiest live bait there is.
Rigging it
Hooked through the back ahead of the dorsal on a 2/0 to 4/0 circle hook; the small ones free-lined, the big ones on a fish-finder rig.
What it's for
SnookRedfishSpotted seatroutTarponFlounderMangrove snapperGag grouperCobiaJack crevalleGreat barracudaMutton snapperRed snapperCubera snapperRed grouperBlack grouperScampGoliath grouperGreater amberjackAlmaco jackAfrican pompanoBlacknose sharkDog snapperRed hind (strawberry grouper)Nassau grouper
What to fish it with
the sizes that fish itHook#8–#1
Braid10–15 lb
The rule
not confirmed hereNo limit as bait; general rules apply.
The current rule at MyFWC →