Fishing School
Finding Fish [90/10]
Welcome to the Insider Club Fishing School!
These lessons will help you go from a Beginner all the way up to one of the most advanced anglers in your area as quickly as possible.
As you go through these lessons, please don’t hesitate to ask any questions you may have by using the Comments feed at the bottom of each lesson.
Let’s get started with the most important lesson of all… Finding The Fish.
Tap or click below to see the lesson:
Equipment Used In This Video
- Real Shrimp: Texas Rigged Shrimp
- Lure: The Prawn Jr rigged on 1/2 oz Weedless Football Jighead
As mentioned in this lesson, there are often WAY more fish under bridges than most people think.
Here’s a fun video showing exactly how many are down there when a camera is dropped down close to the underwater structure.
Homework
In order to ensure that you can quickly find the best spots to catch fish, make sure to watch this quick lesson that shows a fun homework assignment that’ll result in you have at least 3 great spots to fish the next time you have some open time.
As always, please use the Comments section below if you have any questions… we’re here to help.
Tight Lines!
Great information, I can’t wait until I get my boat out there and make put this information to work. Thank you Luke for the newbie lessons
went out yesterday for the first time. Used the weedless, Texas rigged, shrimp and fished Ormond Beach Grenada bridge pier. From the looks of it it was about 6 to 7 foot deep. Did not get skunked. Had an 8 inch mangrove snapper. In about three hours, that was about all I caught working on getting my fishing kayak put together so that I can hit up private docks on the Halifax river
Nice work getting some action on your first time out!
Where was this video shot?
This was filmed in St Pete, FL (it’s the bridge that goes over to Tierra Verde).
I’m like Frank just below. I’m 71, and have fished all of my life both salt and fresh water, Pascagoula, MS and all over Texas. I’m in Perdido Key, FL, pretty new to the area, and have been skunked basically every time out! I purchased the APP today. Looks awesome and looking forward to trying it! Thanks!
Very informative thank you
I’m 73 years old and have been fishing for along time and have caught alot of fish but have been skunked more times than I care to count. Your lessons are very informative. I will use your suggestions on my next fishing trip. Thank you
So glad to see that you’re enjoying these lessons
Well as a beginning salt water fisherman. This is some really useful info. Being a freshwater guy all my life. I am finding lots of similarities as far as structure and drop-offs go. Now my biggest question would be the hook set. Do you set it like you would a crappie or like a bass//
Glad to see that you enjoyed this lesson. The hookset to use is dependent on the rod you’re using and if you’re rigging the bait/lure weedless or not. The more flimsy the rod, the more power you’ll need to put into the hookset. And if rigging weedless, you’ll need to add a little more force as well.
But if using braid line with a Medium power rod that has a fast action tip (like the Slot Machine or TFO rods we recommend), you don’t need to do a bass style hookset because the fish will get hooked pretty easily since the rods have good backbone and the line has no stretch.
Hello, I’m LOVING the website and tutorials. Any thoughts on a segment explaining hook sizes (1/0 —4/0 versus size 1— 4, etc) or are they same with just different names. Thanks
Here’s a good lesson on hook sizes: https://www.saltstrong.com/articles/choose-right-size-circle-hook/
Clicking on this link just brings me to a wpengine login screen that doesn’t seem to accept my salt string credentials?
Here’s the corrected link: https://www.saltstrong.com/articles/choose-right-size-circle-hook/
I’m trying to apply this to surf casting however where I live there’s only really about 5′ of change on the shore. I’m trying to target extreme changes however there aren’t many. Do you have any advice for applying these tips to folks who don’t have a boat?
The most consistently good feature for catching a wide variety of species is to target bridges which is why we featured them in this lesson. Fishing from beaches can certainly be good, but it can be very situational. Here’s a link to see a variety of lessons that focus on surf fishing that I think you’ll enjoy: https://saltstrongdev.wpengine.com/article_categories/beach-fishing-tips/
Great app, Luke, thanks. Already picked out a location on the – now-fishing bridge – old Rickenbacker causeway to Key Biscayne thanks to this video..
Thanks for making time to post the nice comment Stephen! I’m so glad to see that you enjoyed this lesson.