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Fishing with Live Bait A full cooler usually means you used live bait!  If you want to catch fish, really catch fish, live bait is the only way to go. You may catch some fish on dead cut bait, but in general they will be smaller and fewer in number. We've proven this to ourselves more times than I can remember. This past week was no exception. Heading offshore from Northeast Florida, my son Tom and his partner Jason were looking for big bottom fish. Stops at two artificial reefs relatively close in usually provides enough live bait on Sabiki rigs to last the day. This time, bait was scarce, and with only a dozen or so baits, they headed on out. Literally every place they stopped and dropped a live bait down, they got slammed and pinned to the rail by a big fish. They caught a few more live baits, not the cigar minnows and Spanish sardines they wanted, but small live fish, and even these non-preferred baits were being eaten. At two locations they stopped, several other boats were anchored and already fishing. As they dropped baits and drifted through the pack, they both hooked up to good fish. Every drift resulted in two hook ups while the other boats simply watched and shook their heads. Confused and frustrated the other boats were asking what they were doing wrong. It looked to be a combination of things - form being anchored too far from the structure to having terminal tackle that would scare any fish away. But, the prime reason was the bait. They were all fishing with dead cut squid. Now, don't get me wrong, I've caught a ton of fish on dead squid. But, when the bite is slow and you know that fish are down there, it's time to put a live bait in front of them. All in all Tom and Jason ended up with a nice grouper, several nice snapper, and a kingfish in two hours of fishing - not a bad day! Next time you go, take something with you that will catch some live bait. There is no better way to put fish in the boat. « Home
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