What is the best bait to use for snook?

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Any small fish makes good live bait, as do live shrimp and crabs. Schooling baitfish, such as pilchards, work wonders as both live chum and bait. Large dead baits fished on bottom take some very big snook; best are mullet heads and ladyfish heads or halves.

What kind of bait does snook eat?

Snook devour baitfish such as pinfish, small mullet, greenbacks and sardines. They also eat crustaceans such as shrimp and small crabs.

What do you catch snook on?

Snook Baits Live shrimp, live pilchards, live mullet, and live sardines can all work depending on where you are fishing. As with most bait fishing it’s usually best to catch some bait near the area you will be fishing.

Are spoons good for snook?

Anglers who enjoy bass fishing and casting lures will find fall snook fishing appealing. Top water and shallow diving plugs, soft plastic baits, and weedless spoons are the top lures. Mangrove shorelines, docks, and oyster bars are prime spots.

Do snook eat cut bait?

Cut baits can be very effective for snook. All of the baits that they eat alive they will also eat as cut baits. At times, the lively bait is going to work much better, however, don’t rule out cut bait because some very big snook are caught every year on cut bait.

What color lures do snook like?

The Johnson Silver Minnow is a spoon that will catch snook, along with almost every other inshore fish. It comes in multiple colors, but I tend to prefer gold over the silver option. They’re super inexpensive and super easy to use, so there’s no excuse not to have a few of them in your tackle box.

Will snook eat dead bait?

— HABITS: Snook are basically lazy fish. Their attitude seems to be the easier the meal, the better, which is why they’ll often gobble up a dead bait on the bottom before they’ll even look at a live bait or lure. They also are opportunistic, relying on the element of surprise to catch unsuspecting shrimp and baitfish.

How do you attract snook?

For the highest chances of success, try fishing dock lights for Snook. Use lures, such as bottom jigs or swimmer bait, artificial crabs, and shrimp, or go with live bait, such as menhaden, mullet, or sardines. During the summer, when Snook are active, you can get lucky with casting topwater baits and plugs.

What are the best lures for snook and Redfish?

The Strike King Redfish Spinnerbait is an excellent lure for snook as well as redfish. It is one of the few spinner baits made specifically for saltwater applications. This bait has a large gold blade which puts out a nice vibration, weighing 1/4 ounce.

Are lures better than bait?

Lures are efficient fish killers in the right hands and they are at least as deadly as bait on bream. It is a similar story on aggressive fish such as tailor, salmon, barra, flathead and heaps of other predators. Bait is deadly but the mobility and durability of lures makes them even bigger killers than natural bait.

What does Snook fish like to eat?

Snook eat whatever they can find – shrimp, baitfish, crustaceans, and- on occasion even each other. Some of the best lure options are top-water, spoons, Jigs, live bait, and flies.

What’s the best bait?

Here Are the Best Crappie Lures and Baits Berkley Crappie Nibbles. Crappie nibbles come in glow chartreuse, glow pink, glow white, and glow yellow. Johnson Beetle Mini Spinner Bait. The Johnson Beetle comes in weights of 1/32 ounce, 1/16 ounce, 1/8 ounce, and 1/4 ounce. PowerBait Power Minnow. Emerald Shiner Gulp Alive Minnow. Mepps Spinner. Bobby Garland Baby Shad. Smelt Gulp Alive Minnow.