Finding the schools of winter redfish can be easy much of the time, since fish typically frequent the same flats each season. However, they will move from tributary to tributary or from one end of a flat to another during the course of a few tide sequences.
Anglers must patrol these flats for fish and make sure to stop long before the boat runs over the schools, and they can use a tried-and-true lure for those long-distance casts.
Capt. Johnny Spitzmiller of Ambush Inshore Charters is a big fan of the Johnson Silver Minnow in the gold color on schooled redfish.
“Use a gold spoon to find fish. It is a very reliable lure, and you can always catch a fish or two on them,” Spitzmiller said. “After you locate the fish, you can switch over to live bait and really work on them.”
Silver Minnows are truly the gold standard for catching redfish year-round. The spoon’s slow wobble perfectly resembles a baitfish easing through the water, and redfish instinctively will pounce on these baits.
Spitzmiller works his gold spoons very slowly, using a stop-and-go retrieve.
“I tell people to work the spoons like a Texas-rigged plastic worm on a stop-and-go retrieve. When you think you are working it slow, pull it a little slower,” he said.
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