Shell Drops Plus Plastic Yield Lunker Trout

Wait for the passing of a good front, as we get every week this time of year. Move out into the ICW and look for shell drops to either side of creeks entering the area or grass flats approach. If wading, just work, the ledges against the rocks and under the bridges and you will find fish too. The key is finding the shell drops from eight to twelve feet deep. Like cordwood the fish generally stack in these areas for forage as well a shelter from rouge currents and boaters or such. If you do not get a fish after six or eight casts then move to a new area. As I said once, you find them, it is on and it is some of the easiest fishing I do all year. I use a quarter ounce jig head with white 4-inch curl tail plastic bait; Luv lures are my favorite. All you have to do is bounce it off the bottom very slow. Once you get the first few fish and figure out how to work it, you will catch a Trout almost every cast as well, any stacked snook within them. They will pick up the baits on the drop and you will feel an ever so slight twitch to your line. Reel in your slack quickly and set back that rod tip high to the sky with “Fish On!”