If you are talking about bait, live fresh crabs are high on my list for red drum. Remove the legs and top shell with needle nose pliers. They give of a very strong scent that really attracts red drum.

Live baits such as shrimp, shiners, ely, crabs, small croakers and crabs all are good for reds under most conditions. I like using crabs or croakers off the Dixie Bar at Fort Morgan for bull reds. Jigs, also work well under certain conditions. I even have home made one ounce jig heads with home made three inch soft plastic shrimp shape and color tails that I use for bull reds around the rock jetties at Alabama Point because you need the extra weight to work the current there. I have caught reds that were finning in the shallows using spinner baits and top water lures such as spooks. I have fished at night off a pier with under water lights near Fort Morgan using 1/2 once jig heads and white natural pork rind tails instead of soft plastic and catch a lot of spots and rats. I have caught a lot of reds at the Big Mouth between Mobile Bay and Weeks Bay on plain old cut bait. By the way, the fillets off a small hard head catfish seem to be one of the best cut baits I have ever found for reds. Just remember that some years back the demand for blackened redfish caused an over fishing situation for the species and as a result strick size and creel limits were imposed in most areas.

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