| The easy way to catch big fish in nearshore water off Texas is to drift dead baits, such as menhaden, ribbonfish or mullet, skewered onto large circle hooks. |
| Alternately, dead cigar minnows, ribbonfish, Spanish sardines or even frozen menhaden will do the trick. |
| Goggle-eyes are a great deep bait, as are blue runners and ribbonfish. |
| Atlantic cutlassfish, or ribbonfish as they're more often called in Texas, have no scales. |
| Although live bait is preferred, dead ribbonfish, also called silver eels, will make any mackerel lick his lips, but they're rigged dead for a reason. |
| Down here in Florida, we are using goggle-eyes, ribbonfish, tinker mackerel, blue runners and few others. |
