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Shrimp or Mudders?
« Thread Started on May 7, 2012, 12:29pm »		[Quote]
Many folks have the occassion to use live bait for their search of inshore species. In regards to trout, redfish, and flounder: what is your "go to" live bait (if you had to choose one)? Why?

My "go to" is mud minnows. They are hardy, require little maintenance, and all three species love them. :D
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Re: Shrimp or Mudders?
« Reply #1 on May 7, 2012, 12:39pm »		[Quote]
I love fishing with live shrimp under a popping cork, but all three species sure do love those ugly little minnows. I have had times when shrimp got ignored and even the trout would eat mud minnows.

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Re: Shrimp or Mudders?
« Reply #2 on May 7, 2012, 1:09pm »		[Quote]
well when i go saltwater fishing its gotta be shrimp i have tried the mud minnows but with no luck except the darn crabs loved them.
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Re: Shrimp or Mudders?
« Reply #3 on May 7, 2012, 8:31pm »		[Quote]
Either or!!!!! But if it's Mudders..... Make em big!
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Re: Shrimp or Mudders?
« Reply #4 on May 7, 2012, 8:34pm »		[Quote]
I like the BIG mudders best. They are much harder than shrimp. I have cought seaveral fish on 1 mud minnow.
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« Reply #5 on May 8, 2012, 5:02am »		[Quote]
How do yall like to rig your mud minners or shrimp?

Shrimp I will use a #4 or #6 treble hook through the horn, and either put them under a popping cork, or free line them with a very small split shot about 3 foot above them.

Mud minnows, I will use the same size treble hook, and I will free line them with no weight.
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« Reply #6 on May 8, 2012, 6:06am »		[Quote]
I love large mudders under a popping cork with free line or small split shot. All three species have hit on them for me at all times. But i seem to always bring a few shrimp just in case they are preferred for the day.
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Re: Shrimp or Mudders?
« Reply #7 on May 8, 2012, 6:06am »		[Quote]
I love large mudders under a popping cork with free line or small split shot. All three species have hit on them for me at all times. But i seem to always bring a few shrimp just in case they are preferred for the day.
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« Reply #8 on May 8, 2012, 7:09am »		[Quote]

May 8, 2012, 5:02am, chase4556 wrote:
How do yall like to rig your mud minners or shrimp?

Shrimp I will use a #4 or #6 treble hook through the horn, and either put them under a popping cork, or free line them with a very small split shot about 3 foot above them.

Mud minnows, I will use the same size treble hook, and I will free line them with no weight.


Treble hook? Sounds a bit overkill. I either use an 1/8th oz. jighead or 1/0 khale hook freelined or under a popping cork.
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Re: Shrimp or Mudders?
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Re: Shrimp or Mudders?
« Reply #10 on May 8, 2012, 8:01am »		[Quote]
Some of the old school trout fisherman where I come from use a treble hook with the live shrimp under a cork. Trout attack the head of the bait, slashing sometimes like a kingfish would. I guess the extra hooks may decrease a "short strike" that trout are famous for.
Whatever gives you confidence is what you should stick with, they put trebles on lures right.

I love the jig head mud minnow combo for anything that swims in salt water but would pick the shrimp because after it dies it becomes whiting bait. When the bite turns off I love to soak a dead shrimp on the bottom to get the rod bending again.
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Re: Shrimp or Mudders?
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May 8, 2012, 8:01am, fishingwithblue wrote:
Some of the old school trout fisherman where I come from use a treble hook with the live shrimp under a cork. Trout attack the head of the bait, slashing sometimes like a kingfish would. I guess the extra hooks may decrease a "short strike" that trout are famous for.
Whatever gives you confidence is what you should stick with, they put trebles on lures right.


I fished with many old timers growing up and the only treble hooks they used either came on a lure or they tied one on for catchfish fishing to hold the bait on.
I agree with the confident part.
Lures that come with trebles are because it assists in the hook up rate due to the fact that you work a lure by twitching and/ or reeling it in, in constant motion. Live bait generally hangs under a cork and weighted down to a specific area.
As I get better as a fisherman I fish more for the sport rather than the meat gathering. When I experience the slashing that male trout tend to do, I change tactics on them. Part of the fishing experience.
Having said that, if someone is new to fishing, new to an area, or is a child, I totally agree with the use of whatever type hooks they want to use to provide for a greater experience.

I wasn't dogging the guy, I just never heard of using trebles with live bait to catch inshore fish. ;)
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Re: Shrimp or Mudders?
« Reply #12 on May 9, 2012, 10:23am »		[Quote]
Just how my grandfather always did it, picked it up off him. I do like how a treble hook does not flop around as the shrimp or minnow tries to swim. I guess it depends on how you hook them as to if it would hinder their swimming ability, but yeah no real rhyme or reason to why I do it other than my grandfather did.

Old habits die hard?
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Re: Shrimp or Mudders?
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May 9, 2012, 10:23am, chase4556 wrote:
Just how my grandfather always did it, picked it up off him. I do like how a treble hook does not flop around as the shrimp or minnow tries to swim. I guess it depends on how you hook them as to if it would hinder their swimming ability, but yeah no real rhyme or reason to why I do it other than my grandfather did.

Old habits die hard?


It's hard to beat "how granpa did it"! ;) Mine did some things that others didn't either. Some methods from the old timers are getting lost through generations, some are still very good.
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