Pinfish - arguably one of the best snook baits there is - is one of my favorite baits to use in the summer months for big beach snook. The name pin comes from the pin like dorsal bones that will prick a finger as easily and painfully as a pin does. Most of my really big snook have been caught on pinfish. These baits can be easily caught by using small gold hooks baited with a piece of shrimp or by throwing a cast net over a grass flats or around a docks where these baits congregate. Here’s the trick to using a pinfish for snook. Using a dull knife or spoon take a hand sized pinfish and scale the back half of the fish. Snook, when eating a bait, will actually blow the scales of the bait as it eats it. A scaled pinfish to a snook will look like he bait has already been attacked by a snook and therefore easy prey. Hooking the pinfish in the head just above the gills will make the bait swim upwards and hooking it in the tail will make it swim down. This is good to know if you are free lining the bait or using a sinker and knowing where the fish are hanging in the water column.
Other favorite snook baits include live pigfish, pilchards and shrimp See photos by clicking on white arrow on right side of photo
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