Freshwater Lures In Salt Water

[basslover12345]

Hey Guys, Me and my family are leaving tomorrow for a week long trip to Ocean city, MD and me and my dad plan on doing a lot of inshore shallow water, saltwater fishing while we are there because the Chesapeake bay is right across the street from where we are staying. I was wondering if anyone had tried Rage tail lures or other freshwater sof plastics for fish like flounder, striper, etc, besides the eeliminator, shrimp, or crab, for saltwater fishing. I plan on calling around to some of the Tackle shops around there to see if they carry the rage crab or Rage shrimp…………..

[Catt]

If you don’t tell the fish any difference bass lures work in saltwater

[SirSnookalot]

If you don’t tell the fish any difference bass lures work in saltwater

Fish are fish, they hit most anything.

[Jigfishn10]

My first striper came on a Strike King deep diving crank. Second one on a black and blue jig and pig. They like Zara Spooks and Rapala Skitter Pops & Skitter Walks. I also found out, but haven't tried it yet, a 3/4 oz spinner bait with chartreuse blades.

Don't be afraid to try a big ol worm and swim it like a sand eel. Sand eels are a striper's fav.

[basslover12345]

Would a 7' rage Thumper work? What bass lures could I catch flounder with?

[RoLo]

Freshwater lures in salt water?

Well, the soft-plastics will be fine, but the hardware will be scrap metal by next year

Roger

[bass or bass ?]

One of my favorite bass lures is an old salt water L&S Mirro-Lure I used to fish for snook with in Florida. Looks just like an injured shad and bass love it.

[SirSnookalot]

Being a 7 day week saltwater inshore fisherman I think I can shed some light, as I said fish are fish the only thing that changes are subtle nuances regards to tide,time of day, location of fish, etc. Any soft plastic works excellent in saltwater, providing your quarry has no teeth like stripers, snook or tarpon ( probably redfish too but my expertise is limited regarding them), those species are caught pretty much the same as any LMB. Any hard bait I can think of will work fine, I catch the majority of all my fish on spoons. Eel type baits are excellent for stripers, a guy out of Maryland made and marketed surgical tubes for stripers, those same tubes are now a mainstay for barracuda,

I'm one of the very few people I know that carries any gear with them, I use a small fanny pack, most fisherman I see just have 1 lure on the rod, we do analyze a bit less and the lure consideration is secondary, if the fish are on they will hit anything. But they are always not on, many times just no fish in the area and can go for hours without a strike,

[WRB]

Some fresh water lures started as salt water lures; Scrounger and boot tail swim baits for example.

The difference is the type of metal and plating used for salt water to prevent corrosion; fresh water hooks will rust. You can and should rinse you rod, reel, any fresh water hooks in fesh water every day after fishing. Spraying WD-40 on the rod guides and reel after rinsing will help.

You can fish surf areas and break water with soft plastics; Berkley makes a line of Gulp products that work very well. As mentioned spoons work anywhere, white feathered hooks help and white hair jigs are good.

Tom

[SoFlaBassAddict]

Fish are fish, they hit most anything.

Exactly the same thing I was planning on typing after reading the OP.

[trevor]

I live in OC MD during the summer, working as a mate. Spinnerbaits work well for flounder, but I think your best bet for bass fishing techniques would be a heavy ballhead jig with a Gulp! Swimming Minnow in white, pink, or chartreuse. Pink has been hotter than normal this year, but I would still go with white. Bounce the jig along the bottom, going with the current. Look for clear water with current, deep is good, and you'll find the flatties. There are still stripers around the bridge and the south jetty. As far as lures for the striper, use anything large and flashy. Spinnerbaits, or minnow/jerkbaits in natural baitfish colors. Saltwater predators often stage where current congregates baitfish. Look for the diving birds, and you can often find stipers or bluefish under them.

Flounder: Current, clear water, current breaks. Fish artificials imitating baitfish swimming ALONG the BOTTOM. The first strike of a flounder it kills the prey then spits it back out. The second one it comes in to eat. Flounder lay on the bottom, so they see the bottom of the bait, which is usually white.

[CAdeltaLipRipper]

I know any topwater will work for stripers they are interested in a lot of things bass are

[piscicidal]

Some bass gear that I also use in salt water: jigs (w gulp shrimp trailer), rapala x-rap, spook, luhr Jensen jigging spoon. I try to keep it pretty simple in the saltwater (because I don't know much better...lol). I use basically the same rods/reels. 2500/3500 spinning gear for the jigs/spoons and one H action baitcast for the hardbaits.

[fishinkeebs]

A wide array of hard cranks and surface lures work well on stripers. I have found that soft plastic minnow imitations work great for flounder and stripers. A good bucktail jig with a gulp minnow is one of my go to setups! Good luck on the trip, hope to see some pictures!