Catching Bait Hidden in Sand like a Pro

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Hundreds of people walk the beaches of South Florida each day but how many actually know what lives in the sand that is beneath their feet?
Sand Fleas are arguably the best surf fishing bait but do you know how to catch them on your beach and how to store them properly for later use?
No problem if you don't because I explain everything in this short video. If you love to catch Pompano, like I have done in a few of my previous videos, Sand Fleas are a must! Follow along as I uncover these little burrowing bait fish from the surf and bring them home to package them for use on another day of fishing.
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@user-ov9ye3ys5h 4 года назад

Friendly tip. We catch a lot of them in Hawaii. Instead of raking the shoreline at random, get a handful of 2ft sticks(we use branches). Take a 3ft string or fishing line, and tie it to one end of the stick. Tie the other end of the line to a piece of calamari squid. Now shove the stick down a foot in the shoreline where the water recedes near the shoreline. Place the other prepared sticks 4-5 feet apart along the beach. Just wait and watch as the water recedes. You’ll see a bunch of these sand fleas crawl towards the bait. Scoop them up with a scoop net. You’ll fill up your bucket in no time.

@modest5312 4 года назад

Thanks a lot for this tip I will be sure to use it soon. 👍

@scottmichael3745 3 года назад

Great tip bud, thank you!

@eliraven8502 2 года назад

You can also put sardines in a bottle and fill it with water then put a whole on the cap and spray it on the sand …..that’s how we do it in Barbados 🇧🇧

@shashaw.324 Год назад

@@eliraven8502 thanks for sharing

@user-nm7xx5cr8z 28 дней назад

Nice tip ,,will try it the soonest the pompano ran,,,

@aaronwright-miller5235 4 года назад

Sand fleas are like the worms of salt water fishing

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

👍

@Mustangs...their_Tuff 4 года назад

I love sand fleas

@Mustangs...their_Tuff 4 года назад

Bc they don't harm you

@ryanocfc8010 4 года назад

The worms of salt water fishing is lug worms so many types of fish eat it so it catches everything É.G. Bass, shark, flat fish, Ray, ect

@a.s.3.q 3 года назад

@@Mustangs...their_Tuff small ones can go inside your foot skin and grow its super harmful and I'm scared from it

@valattard5011 4 года назад

I thought this was a joke. I had no idea those things even existed. Very cool video 👍🏻

@robinsoto2700 3 года назад

Fr man, qnd there's so many

@doanngo1702 3 года назад

Idk know how people are this dumb THE MORE YOU KNOW

@doanngo1702 3 года назад

People even think guava is not a FRICKIN FRUIT

@benstrike9117 3 года назад

I swear, I never see these things in my country.

@alexismoraleszepeda.1697 3 года назад

@@benstrike9117 theyre alot of fun to catch lol have some here in california newport beach and lots of fun 😂.

@BackgroundNi__er 4 года назад

Wish I would have saw this video earlier before I went to the beach

@beverlycriqui1103 4 года назад

SAME

@bhmbreezy5669 4 года назад

Also SAME

@bennyrowe7747 4 года назад

OMG SAME

@brandywine454 4 года назад

Did you need that much?

@connorchavez4950 4 года назад

Me to

@maces1405 4 года назад

That's my son's job as I set up the rods. He loves sand flea hunting. My son and I are going to Daytona Beach probably next week to see if we can Max out on Pompano. I never thought about saving sand fleas. Good idea 👍

@Beachnative42 4 года назад

Thanks for posting this video and reminding me to prep for the cooler weather. I love all of your videos and the wealth of knowledge you share. Keep up the great work!!!

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

Thank you. I appreciate it! 🤙

@chewie2055 2 года назад

@@CaptMattBudd you are wrong in your information on what these are…they are sand moles…part of the crustacean family…sand fleas on the other hand are an insect that can be found in sandy soil in your own yard…your pets can bring them inside your home and they give a nasty bite…

@cjjuddaustralianartist 3 года назад

I get all the fleas I need from my ginger cat. Gawddammit!

@mohammedmehdi1940 2 года назад

😂 Lol

@sgtz113ang 4 года назад

Capt Matt . very well done tutorial !

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

Thank you!

@bexrightnow8052 3 года назад

I love this! I will bring one of them rake things with me next time I hit the beach. Last weekend I forgot to bring a little net and ended up kneeing in the sand for quite a bit of time digging these guys up by hand

@lt5444 3 года назад

04:05 i died laughing How he tosses the little guy back and says here go back to your friends 😂😂

@realinvestor222 4 года назад

Awesome video, thanks for sharing!

@ONeillsOutdoors 4 года назад

Nice video. Keep up the good work. We love #fishing in south Florida and hope to see you on the water sometime soon!

@jasesohard 3 года назад

my friends wanted to catch crabs but I explained to them that were going to find sand fleas, i’ve only got two so far, and i still don’t understand when they come up. it was a helpful tutorial though, thanks!

@judgeandthejury6156 4 года назад

We call them sea lice and it's tasty.

@vladfish 3 года назад

When I grow up, I wanna be like you man 😉 excellent video.

@CaptMattBudd 3 года назад

💪

@alfa-rebel 3 года назад

Really underrated channel, with you luck!

@kenanmammadov7281 4 года назад

ive caught hundreds with my hands in like an hour, they are everywhere!!!

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

Best bait!

@hoangasam896 4 года назад

@@CaptMattBudd whats the name of that rate, where to buy them>. I couldn't find them at all in home depot? lol

@williamcontreras8710 3 года назад

hoang asam you catch them on the beach not buy them

@QuakAOats 3 года назад

Where are you located? I’m trying to find some

@kenanmammadov7281 3 года назад

QuakA Oats in new jersey

@mrbueno3156 4 года назад

Right on that was really good 👍🏽

@Dragonrage1oo1 2 года назад

intros like these bring me back to 2014.

@tomfrens8910 4 года назад

Im glad I'm by the great lakes instead. Nothing has been able to creep me out till I seen this. Not snakes, spiders, scorpions ... but sand fleas. NOPE!

@sawyeralexander06 4 года назад

Very helpful!

@cobiemartino5662 4 года назад

Sawyer Alexander short and simple. I like it

@propbraker 4 года назад

Nice video, thanks! Did you make this screen or did you buy from a store?

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

I bought the rake fully made from a local tackle shop.

@cupidkoii4738 3 года назад

I thought those were baby crabs and one time I found one and cried the whole day because I thought I'd die😭😂

@TheAdianne 3 года назад

@@bonitahartman5537 i think low

@cobrasquad4018 3 года назад

There called sand crabs

@chapinharrington3123 2 года назад

They technically are crabs, real name is mole crabs

@habibullahusaahmad9485 2 года назад

So much intrested to try the tip 😍😍😍, I just frezzing and think, how stupid me in 20 years ago and now I found this video... Thank you, hope your channel bigger

@renealbaladejo3698 2 года назад

Great tutorial on Sand Fleas. I enjoyed your video. I subscribed to your channel. Thank you. Can you catch sand fleas in the winter? Did you make the sand flea rake? If so do you have a instruction vídeo on how to make one?

@CaptMattBudd 2 года назад

They're seasonal here in south Florida. I see most in winter time. No, I don't make my rakes. They sell them at local tackle shops.

@aaronjrobin 2 года назад

FYI - in CA, if I’m understanding the regulations correctly, there’s a bag limit of 50 on these.

@moviemania1137 2 года назад

Commiefornia

@davisroseee309 3 года назад

I LOVE catching these but I use a net to dig in the sand and almost every time theres at leat two in the net 😊

@ForgorenWolf 3 года назад

That's pretty cool, never thought off using thoses as bait

@scottmichael3745 3 года назад

Awesome bait for pompano sheephead and drum! And free when I get them myself. Freeze em by the bag. Have bait for months!

@Jeasira 4 года назад

Those birds are mad brave

@carljohns5557 4 года назад

Lol who is watching this in covid 19

@joannegilbert7947 4 года назад

Dats bad turns out I have it

@ThePadLynx 3 года назад

Me lmao

@sherwinsatorre1263 3 года назад

@Aguanga_cowboy007 3 года назад

@lbproductions5246 3 года назад

@lovinhouse374 4 года назад

I wondered why blanch when you can go surf to freezer. Blanching hardens the shell and/or makes them last longer on the hook?

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

Helps them hold up better. If you don't blanch then they turn black when frozen.

@EvergreenOG 4 года назад

Thk u for sharing

@landenmurray2068 3 года назад

Was at the beach today and was digging a couple feet away from the water just digging a random hole and next thing I knew I couldn’t stop finding them so I started using them as bait

@CaptMattBudd 3 года назад

That's how it's done ✅

@landenmurray2068 3 года назад

@@CaptMattBudd next thing I knew i caught a 14 inch sea mullet with it then with that caught a 6 foot shark

@jorge2861 3 года назад

Great 👍🏼 Video!

@CaptMattBudd 3 года назад

💪

@ebro-salvaje30 4 года назад

Es algún tipo de crustáceo o insecto marino??

@AR.K.051 3 года назад

Excellent video....mate..

@CaptMattBudd 3 года назад

👍

@turkeytrailhoneybeefarmgeo6292 3 года назад

Use to scoop em at Fort Walton Beach pier. Always a ton. Probably still.

@BloominOnion1 3 года назад

Used to dig these guys up when I was a kid in Virginia Beach. Got 'em by the hundreds .Now we go to the outer banks. Hard to find 'em there, don't know why. I've struggled to locate any sometimes.

@matheusdeluna1409 3 года назад

Here in Brasil, we call these as Tatuí. Its tastes like shrimp. 👍

@CaptMattBudd 3 года назад

🇧🇷💪

@landychen9027 4 года назад

Waiting for a new video update

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

Wait is over. Using the sand fleas I caught in this video I made a new video catching pompano on them!

@filegumbo 2 года назад

I bought a sand flea rake to use in Santa Rosa on 30A. Literally thousands…40-50 with every scoop. You have to look at the edge of the water as it recedes and you will see little V shapes as the fleas dig in as the water recedes past them. The sand will look pockmarked like the top of a pot of boiling rice. They feel you coming though.

@hectorcoria3650 4 года назад

That's awesome! I live here in East Tx and go to the Gulf coast every once in a while. Wondering if you would be willing to send some here like a bag of them, frozen, to give them a try. Of course I will pay for shipping. Just asking. Keep Safe!

@klinqzgaming2594 4 года назад

Sure

@coopercozen4098 4 года назад

i will for sure

@joellegendre8891 4 года назад

In my trinidad we call them sea tatoos

@TheAdianne 3 года назад

Yep

@unfilterednation825 4 года назад

Him : I promise none were harmed Also him : They will die immediately

@miamiwax5504 4 года назад

whats the best tide to catch them?

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

I like outgoing because there's alot less water moving up the beach to get me soaking wet 😂

@carlosramos2662 8 месяцев назад

I need to learn cause i went for forst time incoming tide and i didnt get nothing using for first time the rake im a new guy with this so what r u think happened to me i am from New jersey

@JESSICASKAMTheRealJessicaKam 4 года назад

How many sand crab can you keep per person.

@kevinf4606 Год назад

Which tide is better? High or low?

@Austin-rh8su 4 года назад

Live in Jupiter too nice to see a creator from the same place

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

😎

@imcupcake5602 4 года назад

I did learn something now I can get my owe Bait😁

@raveprod.7079 Год назад

As a kid, whenever I went out to Santa Cruz for family vacation we would go to the waves and when the waves went back into the ocean we would dig into the sand we would find a ton and then put them into buckets with sand and water lol

@sunghan6136 4 года назад

My ninja, why boil the fleas? Preserve better that way? Or snack perhaps.

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

Yea they hold up better.

@lopooqwuyt 4 года назад

Yum snacc

@mason9921 4 года назад

Legend

@Doxymeister 4 года назад

Okay, that's just weird. Many years ago, I (confirmed land-lubber) went to my boyfriend's graduation from Air Force course held at, Biloxi, MS. We took a walk along the beach just after dark, did the whole romantic "watch the Moon rise over the water" bit. LOL, when I got back to my hotel room, my legs were covered with bites, and someone said they were sand flea bites. Are we talking about the same critter here? Whatever bit me was so small I didn't feel anything crawling on me. Ended up not mattering anyway, we waded way out in the Moon-lit waters, it was really shallow, but I couldn't get the theme music from "Jaws" out of my head long enough to have fun, LOL. Cool video, thank you!

@Chuck_Carolina 4 года назад

The actual name of what he was catching for bait is a Mole Crab. You got bit by Sand Fleas. No See Em's is a Chigger.

@Hitlir10 2 года назад

My childhood memory is now unlocked i love to dig for that i also called them sand piggies

@just_cardiff8827 4 года назад

Lmao where I come from we call them sand crabs and there much easy to catch lmao

@odinforce86 11 месяцев назад

They are huge over here in long branch nj

@FISHONBROS 4 года назад

Do you think they have em here in Galveston beach?

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

I'm not sure. I've never been to the beaches in Texas but it may be worth a try!

@FISHONBROS 4 года назад

@@CaptMattBudd cool, hoping it gets warm one of these weekends so I can go.

@danielserrano5462 4 года назад

the lower east coast is a great place to catch those guys

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

💪

@kimberlycisneros1153 4 года назад

HOLY SHIT REMEMBERED ALL THE TIME WE WILL ALWAYS GET THESE IN RHE SAND AND WILL BE SAD BECAUSE WE WANTED TO KEEP THEM BUT COULDNT

@alexmasak7735 Год назад

Lmao this guy just boils dozens of sand fleas alive. Brutal

@an10nee 4 года назад

sweet video

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

👍

@Lydia_lovers 4 года назад

Same

@beaubaggenstoss9650 Год назад

i just wait for the tide to come in and as the wave comes back i put my hands in the sand and drag and i get so many that way

@martinvalencia3410 Год назад

Me gustó lo que diseñas te para atrapar muy muy ,acá en Perú así le llamamos,

@joewagner5046 4 года назад

I take the grandson out to catch sandfleas while on vacation in Destin Florida. Catching them is fun and a lot less cheaper than buying them

@hoangasam896 4 года назад

where do you buy that rate? what's the name exactly to find

@snookid13417 3 года назад

Any bait store near the beach have them.

@michaelcastillo5896 2 года назад

"I promise no sand fleas were harmed" as he pours boiling hot water into the bucket full of live sand fleas 😂😂😂

@cootabang0971 2 года назад

lol

@JesusRodriguez-ft5oe 4 года назад

Bro did any one else see that bird get tooken by the wave😂😭

@cptnobvious0555 3 года назад

I caught a huge white one at dark thinkin it was a little crab or something and I looked it up and found it was a sand flea and I was just weirded out😂

@joanmorris4052 3 года назад

I hope I can #spot them & catch them now I tried yesterday but no luck

@v33zy79 3 года назад

Where did you get the rake?

@CaptMattBudd 3 года назад

At a Local fishing tackle shop.

@gmansjewels 4 года назад

One time me and my dad went to the beach and there were hundreds of sand fleas everywhere. The next day we realized we got ate up and we think it was sand fleas. Was it?

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

😂 not this type these don't bite

@gmansjewels 3 года назад

lahokc59 ok thanks

@coldmidgetts 3 года назад

cool video

@nitrojunki4249 4 года назад

informative TFTV

@KomodoDrano 3 года назад

“ this is what we do we make a hole and fill it with water and swish our hands making them come out”

@stjohnsriverrat Год назад

Great video

@lindamacchi3553 3 года назад

Wow I like it

@cauebahia 2 года назад

I've fried them and eaten them once. Pretty crunchy.. not as tasty as shrimps of course. But definitely edible.

@chrisz.9974 3 года назад

Do live fleas work any better than dead?

@CaptMattBudd 3 года назад

Live bait is always best!

@MsCeCe-mn7mz 4 года назад

? we caught so many sand fleas by hand on vacation. i wouldn't touch them myself but had a rake. the kids had no problems.

@WorstCowboyEver 2 года назад

Where'd you get the rake?

@CaptMattBudd 2 года назад

Local tackle shop

@christopherort2889 3 года назад

Where can you get one of those rakes?

@CaptMattBudd 3 года назад

I bought it at fishing head quarters Jupiter

@hardrockminer-50 3 года назад

I bought one at Walmart. $22

@eliascalderon472 4 года назад

Me to

@daboulfrmda6 3 года назад

I caught 1 digging on the beach it was tryn run

@lucasmorgan5550 4 года назад

How did you seperate the sand leas from the little rocks

@lucasmorgan5550 4 года назад

O they were lighter so they went to the top and the rocks sunk to the bottom

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

Yes exactly!

@itskenzamitor6710 2 года назад

What is this beach

@777sgiles 3 года назад

Can I still catch them in January in South East Florida?

@snookid13417 3 года назад

Yes

@crystalcls8027 4 года назад

What beach are you on?

@CaptMattBudd 4 года назад

Jupiter

@crimson.. 4 года назад

Are they edible???

@Easybagz 4 года назад

Thx for tip im catching so much fish

@xrpgxthunderx9135 4 года назад

What is that

@clayrobinson7803 3 года назад

Today I found huge ones like damn boy

@suleimalopez9599 2 года назад

Do u also catch the shrimp :o

@xxnonamexx1623 3 года назад

I cought one or more with my hands and then it was medium fast

@autumnn2363 3 года назад

Those little guys are actually mole crabs! They do often get mistaked for sand fleas, but the difference is mole crabs are members of Emerita genus of Decapoda. And sand fleas have claws, unlike the mole crab. I also live where sand fleas are native and they do NOT like to touch the water, they often jump in the seaweed that washes up to the shore. Sorry if I sound like a nerd! Great video though!