Catch the BIGGEST fish at the Pier! 3 SIMPLE METHODS for Pier Fishing!
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- Today we are pier fishing in Tampa, Florida for the first time in the spring. While it can be intimidating to try to catch fish at a new location, the fishing techniques and fishing rigs I chose to use this day can be applied to almost any pier. I will cover three different ways to catch fish on the pier, including my favorite method for catching BIG fish. You will learn the exact tackle I use, including rods, reels and line, how to set up your gear, how to fish, where to cast, where to find bait.
Piers have always been a sure-fire bet for those who want to have a fun day full of catching fish. Piers don’t only provide structure for fish to hide from predators, they are also a place for oyster shells and crustaceans to attach themselves and subsequently attract hungry fish who are ready to eat a crunchy and delicious meal.
Piers also provide access to deep water without the need for a boat or a long rod to cast a far distance. You can easily walk to the end of a pier and fish deeper water than you ever would from the shore. Sure, you will be able to find big fish cruising the surf during certain seasons, but the pier is a major stopping point for fish to gather and congregate. You will generally find bigger fish in larger quantities at the pier.
0:00 Intro
2:08 Catching some bait
5:54 Let's catch some SNOOK!
8:54 I need more bait...
9:55 RUN
10:03 Trying for SNOOK!
18:07 Conclusion
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What’s your go-to method for the pier? 🎣 let me know if you e tried any of these methods before. Live-lining bait is one of my favorite ways to target bigger fish. Thanks for watching and hope you enjoyed this episode 🙏🏼
Was that a grouper or a manatee at the end of video?
hi-lo rig with fishbites
@@bangswift manatee.
Wooooooooo, slay those fish!!!!! Adapt to the environment, just keep fishing 💪 Also remember that the 1st 30inch snook came w smaller bait. Snook is a tricky fish to catch, and I had luck with an artificial lure. A live worm and cut bait 👌
I catch fish even at low tide just got to look for signs ie seagulls seals baitballs
I find that pier fish can be very very hard to catch because they've seen it all. I went to a pier in the Los Angles area and the locals were all using similar rigs to catch these little smelt. That was the target and that surprised me more than a little. I went with light fluorocarbon line and a small mosquito hook with no weight letting the bait drift out with the current. I used a small piece of squid. I should mention this was at night. Instantly I got a smelt, then another, then another. The locals were using heavy line and heavy weights and small jigs, and they were catching some, but I was catching every cast. I gave away every fish and made a few friends with the locals. Then, I used a larger rod with some fluorocarbon leader in a heavier test with a bigger circle hook and freelined one of the smelt out. Within minutes I was hooked up to a very large bonito. I had a crowd around me asking me all kinds of questions, most being locals. My point is that always try something different and don't always go with what everyone else is doing. Use your imagination and when possible downsize for pier fish. Yes, you'll lose some, but your catch rate will go way up! Thanks for the videos. I've been a subscriber for a while.
Which pier in LA was this?
@@Jo_Nthejeep Redondo Beach
Muricans love using line thats simply roo heavy for the application
Thank you for sharing
Love it 👍🏾 good advice man 👍🏾
thanks Skipper, thank Dad too, it's great you care about your family and your bride,
Family over everything man! Thanks for watching and hope you enjoyed
Love you guy's I 've been watching for 4 years or a little longer. Today I'm finally going fishing ! I was a nurse got hurt from a patient. Had my corrective surgery April 15th. So after 4 years on March 13th, was it's anniversary. Now to go after a striper. So a Huge fan from New Hampshire. if I don't get a fish...I'm still going to be able to hold a rod.
Love this pier! This is where wife and I got super hooked on fishing.
Back in 2012, we were just learning pier fishing and nice local there showed us a Sabiki rig and that’s been a game changer. I put a #16 Sabiki (cut to only 3) on wife’s pole and she catches everything on it. - from Flounder, Trouts, Reds, and Pompano.
You are so lucky to have such a great family! These videos are priceless-Thank you so very much for producing and posting them!
hey man i want to thank you so much your videos make me a decent fisherman i learned so much from your videos , i watched every single video of your teaching videos , you are a great person keep going man and send my salute to your Dad and Erin , your student from Algeria 🇩🇿❤️
Thank you so much my friend 🙏🏼 can’t tell you what it means to hear this. We try our best to create things that help people. Would love to come try Algeria some day 👍🏼 best of luck out there
About a month away from my first attempt at salt water fishing...I’ve been following you for tips for about 5 months now. I hope it pays off! Thanks for all the videos.
New videos from Hey Skipper, 618 Fishing and Cold Fusion all at the same time??? Heaven! I'll start here.
Honored to be first on the rotation 😁
When it comes to saltwater fishing. You guys are one of my favorite youtubers.
Honored 🙏🏼 thank you.
Love the Ft DeSoto piers, you definitely chose the right one!
So much respect for your fish care.
Shout out to the local for giving you the info. Great catch and video. Important tip about having the point of the hook exposed. I've seen a huge fish spit the bait after a 10 minute fight because the bait filled the whole gap. The bait was still alive.
Couldn’t have done it without him! I’m grateful 🙏🏼 and have def had the same issue with the hook in the fish
You make it really easy to be a part of your community. Thanks for letting us be a part of your family, and I have my grandson watch your video with me so the legend can live on. Fishing is 1 part bliss the other 99% is family, nature and excitement. I still have a hard time winning some 'squiddy bits" tho! lol. G-d bless.
Watching you catch n release a big fish during MCO, is the great theraphy. 😁😁😘😘
Bro Luke, Malaysia.
Hope you are doing well and staying safe 🙏🏼
Fishing with Pops is always the best !!!
Agreed 👍🏼 grateful to be able to make these memories with him
I really enjoy seeing you fish with your dad kudos
The snook was a beautiful fish and extremely fast great video. Thanks for this one!
Thanks for the kind words, Carl, this was an absolutely beautiful fish who put up quite the fight. Happy to hear you enjoyed
I've fished from that pier before. It was just before a storm and I watched lightning get closer and closer for about an hour before I had to leave. Great spot!
Every day I was fishing in Tarpon Springs, the weather sneaked in, and lightning pushed me back to the car. I heard it can strike you from 10m away!
Welcome to our part of the world. I'll be fishing the North Skyway pier on 5/14 hope to see you there
I’m not in town anymore but thanks for the invite! Let me know if you have any luck 🎣👍🏼
Howd it go? I'm in fort Myers and have been thinking about making the trip
@@HeySkipper 4 grouper not in season, dinner sized grunt and blue runner. Seems to be better fishing on the North Pier
A nice video again bro,great fishing in piers im happy to see this video waiting for next video 😀😀
Respect for what you did to land and release the fish.👍
Love your videos. I learn a lot...keep them coming
I am in Sarasota, Florida which is pretty close to that. I just got into fishing and do it daily. I do enjoy this channel.
Another good hunt. Thank you for sharing. Regards from Canada.
lizard fish is the best snook bait of all time, it has never failed me especially for the big girls
You are my favorite RUclipsr! Thank you for putting out such great content! I learn a ton while being entertained. Well Done!
Thanks bro I love your channel thanks alot for your videos
Awesome catch man. Live baits are great! I need to do more stuff like this.
I watch these videos every day good stuff skipper!!!!!!💯💯💯💯💯💯
You, pops, momma and Erin have to come here to Alaska and fish!!!!!!! Do it guys....you will never regret it skip.
respect for everything you do🎣🎣
Good stuff brotha 💯👏👏we keep learning from you
Awesome video! Can't wait to see the next one.
We’ve got some great footage together coming up, my friend 👍🏼
I see thonny out there slayin
I love your videos you inspired me to start fishing again
Thanks so much for your comment, I’m happy to hear it! Hope you catch some big ones and enjoy this beautiful hobby
Kool technique to catch that snook that's why I love fishing so may different styles love ur channel -FishHappy FishingBro
Great fishing video with some nice fish
Great to hear Erin narating A1 job
🙂 thanks! Glad to hear you enjoyed the episode
Great video, I love fishing Florida especially for snook and redfish off the piers you never know what you might catch. You need one of those nets that you drop down to net the fish. Try the pier at Sannabel Island sometime if you get that far south.
Keep it up! Great !
Cool pier👍🤙
One of my favorite places to fish "Fort Desoto"
Kool to see you guys in my neck of the "water" lol.
Wow, that's a beauty!
Thanks for being here, Sara! 😊 hope you enjoyed it and you guys are doing well!
Hey skipper! Just wanted to say thanks for all of the content you post. You taught me everything I needed to know and I went from catching only hard heads and pin fish to pompano, reds, and big ugly drum! Keep doing what you’re doing! Btw you’re my favorite RUclipsr when it comes to fishing haha much love from H-Town Texas!
wow thank you so much for the kind words, austin 🙏🏼 honored to be a part of your fishing journey. I’d love to come fish Texas some day soon
@@HeySkipper hit me up man! If you ever want to fish some good spots in Galveston or Corpus Christi I can show ya!
Except for salmon they stay dumb, thank gawd 😋
Wonderful experience
His squid everywhere👍👍👍👍
Great video!! Especially when you caught the second snook and literally watch it take off. Great catch man!
I love that too. I could watch that clip again and again lol. The water was so clear there. Thanks for watching! Happy to hear you enjoyed it
@@HeySkipper I watch your videos all the time!! Great contents and I learn a lot from you as well. But yeah if you ever come down towards Alabama and Pensacola area I would like to fish with you one day
Bro!! That was some intense action, live bait strikes are crazy.
Haha! I know 😅 the fish were going crazy that day too. Thanks for watching!
I love the narration
Like the music when hooked that fish. It’s like watching a movie 😂😂😂😂
Nice!!!!
Welcome to our area ! , so many good spots so little time , try the skyway fishing pier on the south side , big grouper , tarpon , mackerel, fish big baits free lined , it’s got it all bro ! Tight lines ! 👍🏼
Great tips! I’m in a totally different geography but similar principles.
Where are you from if you don’t mind me asking? And what do you catch with these methods?
Niiiiice fish!!!!
Awesome! 💪
Thanks 🤩 hope you’ve been on some good fishing lately
I love that pier
I've live lined before but here in Texas you can't sight fish too well from the peir love the videos been watching for a few years now and yall are great its been fun learning from yall
The water definitely looks different in the parts of Texas I’ve been to. I’d love to come back and give it another try
Really liked this video
So glad to hear it 🙏🏼 thanks nef
G'day mate great looking clean water 🍻
Hey Skipper. Awesome job i just started watching you keep doing what you doing.. only one thing. I learned that holding fish vertically out of water, pulls the guts towards the tail and it causes internal damage that probably kills the fish after. Please check for yourself as well. Still great job with experimenting diferent baits and catching diferent fish 🐟
That snook was 👏 awesome.
Thanks for making this video, I actually fish from that pier all the time and catch nothing!
Erin, I love the commentary/intro
Thanks! Glad to hear you enjoyed the episode 🎣👍🏼
Wow what an impressive video
Wow wow thank you thank you 🥲
Good job 👍🐟
Thanks for being here my friend 👍🏼 hope you are doing well
Seu canal é show ,grande abraço.....🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣
👍🏼🎣👍🏼🎣
🌲🦅🌲 thank you for sharing your video today stay healthy and safe out there 🌲🦌🌲🦅
Hope you and yours are doing well, Brian!
@@HeySkipper thank you stay healthy over there👍
Would love to show you some awesome spots for snook fishing from the beach near Sarasota next time y’all are down!!
Thanks for the offer! We are trying to move to florida soon 👀
@@HeySkipper that’s amazing news! we moved from LA to SRQ last September and it was one of the best decisions of our lives. Cost of living is so low compared with what the area has to offer and wildlife everywhere is booming! Let me know if I can help with anything with your move!
Lol I just went fishing today perfect timing when Skipper makes this video
How did you do? Catch any?
@@HeySkipper well it was lake fishing i caught a few bass and cats
thank you for this FYI Sir Skipper, yeah this is my first time i saw banana bait for fishing it's nice.
What a beautiful fish that we hardly have here
Wawoooo good video thanks
Wawooooo thanks for watching!
Welcome to Tampa Bay and nice catch!!
Thanks Mickey! Appreciate it 🙌🏼
I want to see some more vintage reel action. Maybe some Garcia Mitchell high speed reels? I think you should look into trying a Zebco 55 too. I’d let you borrow one from my collection if interested.
I’ve got a vintage collection myself! Thanks for the suggestion- we could make that happen 🤔
I love what your guys do, and the education you give to aspiring and newer fishermen and fisher women. I've been a subscriber form years and will continue to watch your awesome content.
But, when handling a snook specially a larger one extra special care must be given. They should not be held by the jaw or gilled, their jaws are fragile and susceptible to breaking when handled that way. Also, they should be held horizontally, nor laid on the ground. These fish, although they are strong fighters are fragile and deserve to be handled properly. The Florida Snook population suffered for many years and is starting to thankfully bounce back through proper conservation efforts. Mishandling of caught fish is causing the numbers to suffer once again. I'm not bitchin or complaining just information because I am sure you guys care. Thank you for all you guys do!
Love watching your videos. Keep up the good work. Will like to know going to Florida in June. Will like to do some fishing in Kissimmee. Do you know any good place to go? Keep up the good job an great videos.
Nice work, I fish the piers a bit and use Gotcha plugs and also live line if possible. Never caught a snook so congrats. Much love from back in BMore..
We use gotcha plugs too, they’re great. from Maryland as well 🤙
I liked the music with fighting the fish.
Hey Skypper, I am Prabhu from India, can you please upload a video on how to preserve fresh baits using salt. Thanks
Nice snook! I see another youtuber Thonny in the video fishing
Thorny was a super nice guy! I got to talk and fish with him a little bit
@@HeySkipper yeah he seems like a chill person.
Nice fishing my friend
Thanks for watching my friend 🎣🔥🎣
Enjoying
I’m gonna try this
Let me know what you catch!
I wish I were on that peir on that day to meet you lmaooo because I live sooo close to that exact peir
The banana rig is basically mackle bite! Live pin fish was the right idea!
nice
Question: have you tried or know if salted bait would work on fresh water fish??
Love it there
What do you primarily catch? Such a cool place
@@HeySkipper bait stealing pin fish and and Spanish mackerel sometimes spotted trout and my favorite flounder 😍in shallow water
Spoons work wonders too
Oh wow- you walking in that hook infested water to save the day, nice rescue!
When are you coming to South Florida? Lets go fish with some antique reels!!
Fort Desoto pier? Thonny was there at 3:25 on your video. He is also a blogger Salty fins. That’s pretty cool. He’s a local there so hit him up since he knows all the fishing spots
Oh yeah, I see him with the guy with the camera next to him. These two should have gtot together to talk.
Run!
I live 30min away from tampa bay I might have to check the spot out!
Tampa is such a cool area you’re so lucky!
The fishing on the Gulf side is better than the Atlantic side in Florida. I have fished both. Panama City Beach Pier has some of the best action in the state.
However if you're going out deep nothing beats the Atlantic. But for inshore, pier fishing the Gulf side is the move.
This was our first time in the gulf side and it was incredible. That’s quite a fishery over there. We will definitely be back
@@HeySkipper Oh and the beaches are better on the Gulf side, the water is warmer and the waves are lower.
Skyway Bridge next!!
I'm so early, it's still low tide.
Haha gotta wait for the water to start moving 🌊🎣
Good music !
Can you use the same method of reading the waves and fishing the troughs on a pier?
how do you play around with the bait fish you catch and avoid sharks? Where I live there is a ton of sharks at the end of the pier so I'm nervous using live bait to try to catch a larger fish. They even go after our lures a lot so I have to cast far out. Would I just move closer to the beach then?