Live shrimp are hard to beat but I don’t fish them as often as I should because I feel like I have ADHD when I’m fishing and prefer to cover a lot of water keep trying stuff. When I do fish live shrimp, I usually do one of the following 3 things: 1) Fishing cuts between mangrove islands or dropoffs next to flats under a popping cork. Personally I prefer a short leader, 2ft max but usually closer to 15-18”. 2) Fishing docks and bridge pilings with a jighead. I actually prefer to bite the tail off and thread the hook in from the tail and come out in the belly of the shrimp. 3) Sight fishing with the shrimp hooked in the horn with a tiny hook.
Christian, try to get your hands on blue crabs, split them in halfs or qtrs with a circle hook. On the east coasts the Reds eat them like candy, good video and the silver kings make it worth it
Awesome tarpon! Love seeing your drone get that abandon sail boat at 1:27 and 14:45. BTW, you might want to cut your line vs using your teeth. Over time biting fishing line will damage your teeth.
I almost exclusively fish with shrimp and ladyfish. I get a lot of crap from my artificial friends... but it works for me. I even fish for bass with shrimp... and they munch! I do try to work plastics, but I always get more action on live. Only downside is lugging around a bait cooler/bubbler.
Great video dawg!! Can you fish Alligator creek and gopher in early October..they use to be sick..South end of Alligator stacks up w tarpon..throw a chartreuse rattle trap ..NUTZ!!!
Man, I love fishing artificial at Chandeleur and the other barrier islands here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but live shrimp always get the job done inshore
