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Old 09-01-2010, 07:01 AM
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I would also hit the first set of rigs out to 65ft of water and fish for Mangroves on light tackle. Pull up to a rig, throw some pogie chum chunks and pitch an unweighted small circle hook hidden in a chunk and let it free drift with the chum - you will feel 'THUMP' like a bass hitting a plastic worm, but these are no bass but 8 to 10 LB Mangroves that fight like crazy. We fish Calcutta 400s with 65 Braid, tipped with 30 to 40 Flouro or so - the bigs ones can be very line shy and sometimes we use 25 Flouro, but break off several. Live Shrimp, Croaker = Mangrove candy. Good Luck
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