How To Retrieve Shrimp Lures In Shallow Water (To Catch Tons Of Trout)
- By: Luke Simonds
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The trout are on fire right now!
I had a blast swimming the Power Prawn over potholes, catching several trout over 20″, and in this video, you’ll learn exactly how I did it.
You’ll learn:
- The type of spot that hungry trout are swarming right now
- How to present your lure to these trout so that they can’t resist it
- Why it’s so important to have the right gear
- And much more
Check it out below!
Catching Trout On Shrimp Lures [VIDEO]
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Here’s the gear I was using:
- Rod: Bull Bay Stealth Sniper 7’6″ MH
- Reel: Quantum Smoke 25
- Line: 10 lb. PowerPro
- Leader: 30 lb. Ande Mono
- Lure: Power Prawn
- Glasses: Smith Optics Guide’s Choice
- Boat: Pathfinder 2400
And speaking of gear, having the right equipment makes catching these trout a lot easier.
A good rod lets you cast your lure far, get a good hookset, and feel when a trout strikes versus a pinfish hit, or when you’ve just bumped a clump of grass.
Braided line helps you feel strikes and set the hook as well, and having a good leader helps prevent fish like snook from breaking you off.
Now, let’s talk about where these trout are.
It’s almost officially spring, and since it’s heating up a bit, they’re moving on to the flats to feed.
In particular, they’re hanging around sandy potholes waiting to ambush trout and baitfish that swim around the edges of them.
So as you’re drifting the flats, cast your lure just past these potholes, swim it through them, and hang on!
My favorite shrimp lure to fish the flats in spring is the Power Prawn.
Check out the video below to learn more about the Power Prawn weedless bundle we just got in stock.
Power Prawn Weedless Bundle [VIDEO]
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Since we’ve been getting these hooks and lures in a few at a time, we’ve been launching them as bundles.
But now that everything is in, we’ll start to offer these lures and hooks individually.
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Thank you and tight lines!
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How does the power prawn (or jr) perform compared to the ZMan EZ ShrimpZ?
The Power Prawn USA Jr is more streamlined and has a more realistic profile, so it has a better glide that fools more big fish.
The Zman can be better when targeting bluefish, mackerel, or other species with sharp teeth that can tear up most soft plastics.
Thanks Luke – On these on the water lessons, do you think it would be helpful to include the Satellite map so we could see the type of location you are fishing?
I do that as often as I can… this spot is a place that someone showed me a while back and I’m sworn to secrecy on it:)
Hey, guys thanks so much for all you do!! I am in Virginia and received the Weedless jig hooks for the Power prawns shrimp jr and tried to rig the weedless hook with the barbed pin in the end and was unsuccessful at being able to keep the shrimp on the hook. Can you give me any advice on the proper way to rig this weedless hook? It seems simple but will not hold for me, I was using the 1/4 oz. jig
Hey Robert, my apologies for taking so long to respond. Have you been able to go through the course for the Power Prawns yet?
There is a video showing how to rig the Power Prawns on those hooks. For the Jr. sized lures, you’ll need to make sure that the pin is not going through the rattle cavity because it doesn’t have anything to hold onto if that’s the case.
Here’s a link to the course lessons: https://www.saltstrong.com/articles/power-prawn-shrimp-lure/
Wher is the video on rigging the power prawn lure
Here’s a link to the Power Prawn lessons if you haven’t yet seen them: https://www.saltstrong.com/articles/power-prawn-shrimp-lure/
How deep was the flat you were fishing?
It was about 1.5 to 2 ft deep.
I assume you now prefer these shrimp lures over the Gulp shrimp?
Absolutely! These are much more fun to fish with because they last MUCH longer and seem to do better at getting bigger fish to strike (especially in clear water).
Gulps do still have a spot in my tackle box for when I come across schools of black drum.
Since you do not have the Weedless jig hooks, where else can they be buy them. I have the Prawn Jr with jig heads. But I would like to go Weedless.
These are custom jig hooks, so they unfortunately are not available anywhere else. We’ll be getting a big batch in next month, and they should be readily available from that point on.
Yea again being in northeast fl no potholes or seagrass or very clear water for that matter but I know with the warming water here in Jax fl area they will be cruising the grass lines and probably in about a couple weeks they will be starting to chase mullet that is if old man winter goes away for the year and the warming continues otherwise it’s going to be a long winter for us here in northeast fl
Yes, these lures will be great for fishing the edges of the sawgrass up there.
Thanks for the awesome video/info Luke! Knocking it out of the park again!
Thanks Cody!
Great video, with lots of crucial tips throughout — a micro-course on fishing the flats in just 12 minutes!
I couldn’t help noticing that the first spotted seatrout had both canines. One of the others had one full canine and a tiny (growing back?) canine. The rest only had one canine each. 🧐🤔🤓
I caught a speckled trout on a gold spoon in the Aransas Pass, Texas area, that was so big it had 3 of those big teeth! One day I had hired a guide and I was bragging to him about that trout. He asked me the measurements on that fish. I told him again it “but it had 3 teeth!!”
He responded “I didn’t ask how many teeth it had, I wanted to know how big it was.” Haha! Damnest thing, I never did measure it. I do have a picture of it next to a 20 inch red, and it was about twice as big as the red.
Wow! That is super cool!!!
That’s awesome!