What color lures do snook like?
The best baits for snook fishing are shrimp, finger mullet and pin fish for any water depths. The best lures for snook are 3 inch and 5 inch white paddle tails with an 1/8 ounce jig head in shallow water and a 1 1/2 ounce flair hawk jig for deeper water fishing scenarios.
What bait should I use to catch snook?
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.
Are snook top or bottom feeders?
Snook are very efficient “up-feeders” but that underslung jaw is designed for pinning prey to the bottom, too. If you sight cast for snook on the flats or in the surf, how often do you see big specimens swimming right at the surface? Probably not often, unless there is a surface feeding frenzy.
What tide is best for snook?
The best tide for snook fishing is the first two hours of the outgoing high tide. The outgoing tide washes shrimp, crabs and small fish out of the estuaries, mangroves and grass flats right into the mouths of the hungry inshore snook.
How do you get a stubborn 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.
Is a 30 inch snook big?
These snook species do not get very big. A large fat snook might get up to 28 inches but the ones that you will most likely catch are 10 or 12 inches long. Fat snook are small and girthy.
What’s considered a trophy snook?
At one time, a 30-incher was a whopper, then 36, and these days it takes a 40-incher to be designated a trophy in most circles.