salt water fishing for Ozarks folks

[edmashburn]

Good afternoon to all-

I live and fish now on the Gulf coast, but I spent a lot of time fishing and teaching school in the Ozarks. White river, Little Red river, Crooked Creek, Big Piney, and all of the lakes. I do love me some brown bass and trout.

I have found that many of the  lures and techniques I used up there work just fine down here in the salt water. Just about everything up there eats crawdads, and just about everything down here eats shrimp.  Also, soft plastics on 1/4 oz jigheads are deadly for redfish, speck trout, flounder, and lots of other stuff.  If you can catch smallmouth bass, you can catch all of the inshore hard-pullers down here.

Freshwater anglers worry about corrosion from the salt water, but unless you fully baptize your reels, there's really no problems from fishing the salt.

And when fishing the bayous and creeks down here, fish the water just as you would for bass and trout up there. Lot for potholes, dropoffs, deeper structure- that's where the fish are. But I warn you, once you hook a big redfish, you will be ruined. those things pull, and they just keep on pulling.

Heck, it's only 12 hours or so from most places in the Ozarks to the coast- you ought to think about coming down and catching some fish and eating some good, good food.

 

you all keep warm- I'm sliding the kayak in a creek in a day or so and looking for reds, specks, and who knows, maybe some baby tarpon.

 

Ed

 

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3 minutes ago, edmashburn said:

Heck, it's only 12 hours or so from most places in the Ozarks to the coast- you ought to think about coming down and catching some fish and eating some good, good food.

I'll be down again in April!!!  Red fishing trip is already booked.  I booked it the day before I leave so I can bring some back!!!!

[oneshot]

I lived in Louisiana in the’80’s but never fished the Gulf.

Think regulations are different in Louisiana than Florida actually from what I’ve heard better.

Got 3 Surf Rods and it is tempting.

I was supposed to go down there last October but health put me down. We had a House Boat rented for a few days.

oneshot