With the first day of spring approaching quickly, I’ve already started making preparations for redfish to return to the shallow marshy waters here along the Texas coast. I’ve enjoyed winter trout fishing as much as the next guy, but for me nothing beats stalking reds through a foot of muddy water on a bright sunny day. It’s a style of fishing that requires great patience and the ability to make accurate casts that I have come to enjoy more than any other. While spring tends to bring unfavorable winds that can be torture to the weekend kayaker, it also brings warmer weather and an abundance of bait. It’s a time of the year that many anglers welcome with open arms.
Over the last couple of days I’ve been going through my gear to see what tackle needs to be transferred from storage to the kayak. With so many choices between soft plastics, twitch baits, topwaters, spoons, crankbaits, and numerous other lures, deciding what to bring is always a tough choice. Like most people, I have a few favorites that I never leave home without during the warmer months. Each one serves a specific purpose depending on the area or type of structure I’m fishing along with what the fish seem to want on that particular day. They are lures I have used in the past with great success and as a result I have developed great confidence in each of them. That confidence is the main reason they work so well for me. When I tie one on, I know that it’s capable of producing and expect it to catch fish. Listed below are those five lures and the reasons why I never fish the marsh without them. By Sonny Mills – continue reading http://tailtailsigns.com/tips-and-articles/five-must-have-lures-for-spring-time-redfish/