Weakfish Tips

[wb]

Nice info....
We did Ok on them in the Reach Channel last year using both the Gulp Sandworms and an 8" Gulp brownish-red-almost-bloodworm/nightcrawler- lookin thing forget exactly what it was called.

[PeggyLee]

Can't add much to what the Gents have stated, but I try to use some live worms YUM YUM into the mix and go lite as possible and move with the fish.Too much traffic kills the bite.Hit em good in the Bay last year. Got one on the wall 13lb 6oz.Come on weakies...
Good Luck out there.    AJ.   

[SharkHart]

The other thing you want is a sustained weather pattern with no rain preferably.  A little heat wave or indian summer is good too.  cloudy water just makes them scatter or hunker down.  New moon tides forget it too.

[salty pig]

Let me know when these suckers are running i want to catch at least ! this year dang it 

[ped579]

Can you say grass shrimp...I have been targeting these guys with grass shrimp flies each year and have been doing pretty good.  I was hoping that by now I would of had a kayak to use in the back of IBSP but that did not happen yet.

I will be targeting them starting next week and see what happens.

Paul

[bugmannj]

Good info , Meltzers in Garfield has pink Fin S

[FishOn]

I don't fish bait often, but a nice piece of soft shell or sheddar crab fished near a bridge on an outgoing tide can be very effective

[phyll the thrill]

try a storm shad peanut bunker with a SLOW retrieve . Give the rod a slight jerk as you retrieve. Weakies are picky eaters and wont take a bait too large.They like to hand around some sort of structure in my opinion.  good luck

[MJ619]

When I go crabbing in the fall I use chicken and bunker.  I have caught keeper weakfish on chicken, believe it or not.  Use a freshwater type setup, even a size four hook.  Some of the regulars on the dock have done it with success.

[Bucktail]

MJ619,

You are on to something there.

Using chicken for weakfish is an old trick.  When shedder crabs are hard to find, chicken soaked in shedder oil works almost as well.

[BigAl13]

weak fish love sale boats