Salt Water help

[tbone1993]

Hi all,

I have someone asking me to help set someone up with a saltwater setup. It's for a vacation house to be used on the dock. I'm just going to set them up with some penn combos 7ft medium/ 7ft medium heavy.  I need some advice on lures. What's the senko of the saltwater world? Going to sent them up with some stuff they can pull out whenever to fish.

[soflabasser]

Any decent saltwater fisherman will tell you that bucktail jigs and other similar jigs are some of the best lures you can use.

[Guitarfish]

Bucktails and plastics of various sizes. Maybe some bait rigs to toss out there.

[N Florida Mike]

Ive caught more saltwater fish on stingray grubs on a jighead than anything else. Chartruese is my best color. I tip them with a small piece of shrimp.

But I rarely fish artificials in salt anymore. Live or dead bait !

[Catt]

For everything ya need to know 

 

https://www.shopmirrolure.com/product_overview.php

[NoShoes]

Live shrimp

[soflabasser]

Live bait and cut bait are good choices but the OP is asking which lures work well for saltwater fishing. The bucktail jig and other saltwater jigs are probably the most versatile of all saltwater lures. They come in different sizes, shapes, and colors so they are many choices. 

[ATA]

I am on ducktail as well I get the UV white and chartruse 

[WRB]

Penn reels....spinning or casting. What type of line? Are your friends good at casting your tackle?

Lures require more fishing skills then bait fishing.

Private dock or public prier ?

What type of fish are available where your friends are fishing early winter?

Just a few questions so I can suggest what to use.

Tom

[Chris at Tech]

Where is this vacation house?  Recommendations are likely to vary based on location

[bulldog1935]

I'm going to go a different way with the dock fishing recommendation.  While MH tackle has its place inshore, we catch 10-to-1 on long UL rods - Japanese rockfish rods, which are actually based on progressive fly rod tapers.  It has a lot to do with the micro-sized bait attracted by dock lights at night.  

Raised my daughters with annual coast trips and catching nursery seatrout after dinner and before ice cream was a ritual with us.  Live shrimp on a 4' leader and weightless cigar cork, which you can only throw on UL, would get us 40 nursery trout in an hour.  

A dozen years ago, discovered rockfish rods from Japan, would get our UL bait rig out twice as far and doubled our fish count.  

Also, sight-fishing canal lights, discovered I could land 22" and 23" specs on this tackle.  

Now with the girls grown, we make an annual Nov trip to far S. Texas just for the incredible nite-light dock fishing.  The schoolies sweep through the lights at night to raid the tiny bait, and we each get our daily bag limit of 17"-22" specs.  

The schoolies, btw, are all males.  

We've refined our tackle to include longer Rockfish rods to 8+', good UL reels like Stradic, mix of live bait and small baitfish lures like 2" and 3" swim shad - 2" Wildeye shad and Tsunami SS3.  

 

 

[soflabasser]

Another proven saltwater lures are spoons. They come in all shapes, sizes, and colors so you should be able to find some that will work in the area your friend is fishing in.

[mrmacwvu1]

3 to 4 inch paddle tail swimbaits are the ticket in sw florida 

i usually use mirror lure or doa 

baits in white silver 

[Jigfishn10]

You can’t go wrong with a bucktail jig like @soflabasser recommend. I also like the diamond jig as well. So many ways you can go with it.

[bulldog1935]

on a fly rod, especially for nite-lite dock fishing, tiny whistlers and bucktail hi-ties tear them up.