Big boy! I live for redfish but they aren’t doing well in my area. I saw one big one yesterday though so hopefully the spring will bring them back to us.

Great catch! That’s a tank

Best meat and fight, right next to my other favorite, snook

I caught probably 40 slot sized reds last year and couldn’t eat any of them…I’m in the Indian river lagoon region of florida and they’re currently catch and release only…I kinda wanna die.

I love mine with an upvote, some garlic, butter, all-purpose seasong, and fresh lemon. Oh yea, a cold glass of lemonade.

Does a bear shit in the woods?

Best target fish hands down! I’m an inshore Charleston fisherman you can’t beat red bite

The best bait I've seen is cut mullet.

Always a fan of a mullet head. Sometimes a pinfish head. Used to be spot heads, they are really oily, but spot seem scarce for quite a while now.

Cut mullet on a fish finder rig. Or if they are crashing the beach a big silver Hopkins lure.

Cut mullet or blue crab 

Blue crab

I like strike king rage tail rage craw. Alot of different colors to choose from and mimics a little crab. My go to is moon juice. Use a 4/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.

Nice blue claws

Looks like you’re in for a very tasty night.

Looking good

Chicken boy bloody mary shrimp is a great one. Any Vudu shrimp as well. Haven't had as much luck with typical fish-shaped soft baits.

Reds love crustaceans. Try using live shrimp instead, or sieve some sand fleas, then find an oyster bed with a few holes around it or a channel nearby.

Floating cork with 2-3' leader to 2/0 circle hook with live shrimp. Cast along shoreline during incoming tide

I've only caught a few but every time, it was as the tide was nearing high tide and every time i saw or heard a splash and just threw a shrimp on a size 1 bass hook with like a 1/8th worm weight on it, horrible looking rig but it caught all 3 i ever saw. It was almost always near a creek coming into the brackish river i was fishing, probably a mile and a half from the coast

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Reds are one of my favorites to catch. I use mostly lures, but also live and dead bait. Tides are very important, that 1-2 hour window before and after a slack tide is the best time. On an incoming tide you want to fish behind tide breaks closer to the inlets and move up the creeks and marshes with the tide and the bait. On the falling tide you’ll follow them out of the marshes and creeks. Look for structure and ambush points that has current moving past. Alternatively, you can do my favorite thing, which is sight fishing for them when they’re tailing on mud flats and in the grass.

H & H chartreuse sparkle beetles and cocohoe minnows. DOA shrimp, gold spoons, GULP!, and flukes. Live shrimp, baby mullet, or croakers under a popping cork for live bait. If they're around they'll hit it all!

Greenback MirrOlure, xl and standard size.

Live shrimp is my fav

Gold spoons

Live shrimp ona jig head or under a popping cork with ~12”-18” leader. Quartered blue crabs ona slip rig works well too. Lure-wise; soft plastic swimbaits, chatterbaits in grass, or even topwater spooks/twitch baits in the summer.

I would be tempted to say live shrimp.

Gulp shrimp on a jig head. For bait, fresh shrimp live or dead, blue crabs, and big strips of mullet for bulls in the deep ship channels.

Zman minnowz and eye strike Texas eye jig heads

Mirrodine lures, topwater walk the dog type lures and jugs with soft plastics slay for me. A live or cut bait siaking on the bottom will catch them first though

Gold spoons work great

For sight fishing skittish single fish chunk of cut bait on a circle hook weightless. Spooks or top dogs when they're schooling. Absolute blast. People that just throw Topwater early morning are missing out

There are many tried and true Redfish patterns, some are much more productive than others, why don’t you stick with tying those?