🌊 Best on the flood💨 Likes calm wind📅 Mar, Apr, May, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
- Water temp
- 50–90°F
- Depth
- 1–33 ft
- Max weight
- 39.7lb
- Day vs night
- ☀️ 🌙
Redfish, or red drum, are Florida's most widespread inshore gamefish, bronze with a black tail spot, found on grass flats, oyster bars, mangrove shorelines, docks, seawalls and jetties from the Panhandle to Mosquito Lagoon and the Everglades. Mid-sized reds push onto the flats to feed on a rising tide, tailing over grass and oysters, then drop back to potholes and creek mouths on the falling water; bigger bull reds school along the passes, inlets, jetties and beaches in late summer and fall. Spring tides around the new and full moons give the best flooded flats. Use a 7 ft medium spinning rod, 10–15 lb braid and 20–30 lb fluorocarbon, with a 1/0–3/0 hook under a popping cork, a weedless soft plastic or a gold spoon on the flats, and cut mullet or crab on a Carolina rig at docks. For bull reds, step up to 40 lb leader, 7/0 circle hooks and 3–6 oz sinkers. Check current FWC rules before keeping one.
Best bait for redfish
- 1 Cut Mullet
- 2 Live Shrimp
- 3 Blue Crab
- 4 Gold Spoon
- 5 Soft Plastic Shrimp
- 6 Paddle Tail Swimbait
Rigs that work
- 1 Carolina Rig
- 2 Popping Cork Rig
- 3 Weedless Texas Rig
- 4 Fish-Finder Rig
