Backwater Speckle Trout Fishing

Anglers fishing backwaters should be looking for sandbars, grass-beds and oyster beds. Fishing above a sandbar or oyster bed on high tide can produce speckled trout and even redfish. On high tides, specks also cruise the edges of grass-beds, waiting for an unlucky baitfish to leave the grass. Often, speckled trout can be seen actively feeding on baitfish in shallow-water areas. Any time an angler sees the water boiling with bait, he has a good clue that speckled trout have run shrimp or baitfish to the surface. Look for birds diving in the water. These birds diving indicate where the bait fish are. Find the baitfish and the bigger fish will be underneath them. Fish shallow-water areas during any tide, using surface lures to avoid hanging yourself up with the bottom and losing a lure or the time of rigging your line again to replace your leader and hook. During low tide stages, speckled trout go deeper and move off the flats. Finding deep holes in navigation channels or creeks can help you locate the fish. The advantage of fishing on low-tide stages is that there is less water, which tends to concentrate both the fish and the bait.

Return to Speckled Trout Information from Backwater Trout Fishing