[basswrangler]

Hi folks,
About 5 years ago I started fishing in the wintertime for speckled trout inshore with my uncle and have been doing it ever since. While I've done pretty well wade fishing for winter specks, to this day I've never caught a speck outside of the period from November through January. What could a boatless fisherman do this time of year to catch a speckled trout? Thanks!


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[speckhunter80]

Fish the same areas using topwater

 

[speckhunter80]

Fish at night

 

[grandpaa]

Try top warter with fake or real bate but use a popper float .throw it out and slowly bring in,and use a slite jurk hear and there to make it pop.Shrimp real or fake works very well. only fish 1 foot deep to 1.5 you should like the out come.

 

[speckhunter80]

Rebel Pop-R remove the back hook and tie on 18" of 20lb floro with your favorite soft plastic shrimp imitation.

 

[basswrangler]

Fish the same areas using topwater

Mirrolure surface walkers and such?


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[Scott Hobbs]

Mirrolure Top Dog Jr or She Dog or She Pup or Top Pup, Zara Spook Jr, Rapala Skitterwalk to name a few topwater baits. All these are Walk The Dog style baits and reds an specks will devour them.

Be prepared with several types of baits ie.. topwater, subsurface and jig heads for grubs.

 

[AHODGES21]

Trout do seem to disappear during those hot summer days. Most successful summer guides are using live shrimp and corks. Good luck.

 

[Curtis Pelt]

Gulp ripple mullet

trout do seem to disappear during those hot summer days. Most successful summer guides are using live shrimp and corks. Good luck.

fish early or they will disappear !!!

 

[basswrangler]

So I'm hearing early morning and at night., I'm guessing based off of temperature being lower then?


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[speckhunter80]

Yes, if you are fishing for specks past 9:00am you are pretty much wasting your time unless you have knowledge of special speck summertime hideouts

 

[ice cream man]

No expert ( have friends that are ). Check out Facebook if you think they aren't being caught. ......... ICM
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[ice cream man]

So I'm hearing early morning and at night., I'm guessing based off of temperature being lower then?


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No so, once you find them it doesn't matter what time of day. The bite will shut down some times.
Boat traffic is my biggest issue. People running over the fish. ....... ICM

 

[ice cream man]

Trout do seem to disappear during those hot summer days. Most successful summer guides are using live shrimp and corks. Good luck.

Guides use Shrimp because their clients are not very good anglers, it's mostly guarantees catching of smaller fish.
And it's less expensive to stay in one spot, switching out Shrimp.

Last two days it's been all topwater, all day.
We stopped because of the heat got to us, we had 4 in the cooler & we were missing way too many blow ups. ...... ICM

 

[basswrangler]

Sounds like I have my work cut out for me! Those are some pretty fish! Thanks for the advice yall


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[basswrangler]

I know better than to ask for locations, but what kind of areas are you looking for when trout hunting? I usually fish ledges with a nice current that I can get to by foot.


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[reel]

Dang Ice cream, 4 in the cooler, you are killing it. You so good they bite all day on top. maybe we can follow the same person around and pick up scraps together

 

[Swampin']

Lets say you are fishing a creek channel, with water moving water from a kayak in the middle. Where do you expect to get bit? Right on the grass edge? off the edge a bit? In the middle of the stream? Or if you are fishing an inlet from shore and cast as far as you can, will yo uusually get bit at the far end of the cast, at the drop off, or at the shallow end. People always tell me the specks are much easier then drum to catch but my catch ratio of specks to drum has been about 10 drum to every 1 speck.... and those specks all came on the same day.

 

[ice cream man]

Get up early, stay late. Have patience, but plan for disappointment.
Keep casting, keep moving but most of all, keep the location a secret. ....... ICM

 

[Greenmonster]

Man, ICM, you give good advice! Particularly that last piece!