Speck rigs

[mjh]

Ok I know some of you guys here have fished with a speck rig. Do you still fish them and do you fish them with a popping cork or just cast them out and work them back in. I have used them for white bass fishing before but I don't know when to use them for trout. Just wondering?

[buoy37]

I have only used them for flounder. I need to throw'em more often for specks.

[Robalo]

I use them for chicken dolphin. They also sometimes work in the lights and always under birds.

[Baby Tran Cat]

Caught many trout YEARS ago...talking 20 at least...used to fish them under a popping cork...also tipped them with shrimp

[coachlaw]

probably 90 percent of the fish I've caught in my life came on what used to be called "Shad Rigs" now the Boone company no longer makes them, but I see them called redfish rigs and speck rigs. I prefer the larger ones, but both have their niche. I use them with or without a cork, and with and without scrimps/cut bait. Sometimes they are the only thing that work. If they don't work, I use cocohoes in the same tandem formation.

[Moe]

I usually tie my own using curly tail grubs or 3" Saltwater Assassin Sea Shads(paddle tails). Primarily use them in the lights, on a pier, or when the trout are schooled up.

[52M-28]

I used them a lot back in the 70"s around the old Mecom's pier in the surf over near High Island. caught a lot of trout and reds. I fished them with out a cork, just a quick hopping motion and especially if the birds were working. I have also used the 3' curly tail jigs in tandem and they work.

[SaltyShaw]

Under the birds I will throw them other than that a hardly ever do

[Curmudgeon]

I've only had luck with them under the lights.

[greysquirrell]

Its only a matter of time before there is a scales down version of the Alabama rig to fish the lights. Six sandies a cast .......

[Texfish]

I've used them under lights and when the birds are working.

[Meaux Fishing]

I grew up surf fishing with them. caught more trout than I can count on em, mostly tightlined. Sometimes tipped with shrimp sometimes not

[Gulfcoast13]

lights is where I use em.

[trophytroutman]

Used many a years and caught many a trout on them.Usually 2 at a time.Sometimes i tipped with shrimp.Used mainly under the lights.Never used under a popping cork and have no doubt they would still work today.

[trophytroutman]

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