If I had access to that pier, first thing I would do is drop a crab trap.

Yes-Those little swimbaits are very popular in my area. Catches everything.

Nice catch Bigfish. And I agree about the plastics. Lots of choices on plastic and glow in the dark plastics for night time trout fishing. Only difference for me is, I would recommend a light action spinning reel with 6 to 10 pound braid. But I always fish light tackle for everything inshore. Nothing better than turning a 26 inch red using a crappie size 50 spinning real with 2 or 4 pound braid and landing it. Those schooling trout under the lights are a blast on light tackle.

No joke on that, drop 3!

What kind of crab do do you get down there?

So more dumb questions for me. So if I'm using a 1 ounce weight and Carolina rigging a dead shrimp, I am assuming I'm casting that out and just letting it sit, or do I slowly retrieve it? For the plastics, that's obviously cast and retrieve right? Where in the water column do you target?

There's been very few times that little bait hasn't gotten a bite, some reason they would get off it at Surfside for a couple of weeks, but they were on a smoke gulp swimmin' mullet on 1/4 oz head. 2 weeks later, back on the white bait. You ain't jokin' on everything biting it either, even a hard head will hit it if you let it sit too long on the bottom. I hooked something in the surf right by Surfside Jetties a few years back on that bait, it spooled me. Have no idea what it was, but it was faster than a redfish.

Thanks! I use that heavier leader because fishing the surf sometimes a bigger trout would run and that line would get pulled over the bar and get cut. I can't imagine a red that big on that light of a rig, 28" red on my rig is a handful.

Blue crab......and if you get 8 or 10, you'll have some fine eating.

Cut head off, gut, scale, checker board cut top, rub with butter and garlic, broil till skin gets crispy. Best eating fish there is.

Flounder

Yes, puppy drum is excellent!

Flounder

Hands down

Mangrove snapper