It’s hard to outfish the guys with the grass shrimp. I’ve been schooled a couple of times, but turned it the other way once.
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On my favorite local lakes I have the best luck brim fishing with live or fresh dead grass shrimp. I have used worms, crickets and cut bait. 35 years ago I used to Striper fish the St Johns river just North of Lake George.. What I quickly learned was you better have multiple bait choices..Grass Shrimp, very small shiners, small Croakers, live eels and a chrome 1/4 oz Rattle trap plug.. You never knew what they were in the mood for.. Eels were the best bait most of the time for the bigger stripers..
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a person studying bream stomach contents at one spot i hit a few years ago said freshwater shrimp made up a very large portion of the sunfish diet , it was interesting to talk with them as they ketched fish to examine ....
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Another vote grass shrimp. Used them a lot when I was young on cane/bamboo poles, fishing a black water cypress swamp (Chick). A place just down the road (Ed Allen's) sold them in small paper bags with a little moist saw dust in the bottom, $.50. Eventually, dad got a shrimp net and we could catch our own buy scraping the base of the cypress trees and knees. Best brim bait I ever put on a hook.