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catching spadefish
While we were in the GOM waiting on the rare red snapper to show up, I saw groups of spadefish. They loved my rig hook, but not the bait I was throwing at them ! I used cut shrimp, small hook, with a float. All that took the bait was hard tails. Any ideas ?
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Shrimp or squid is good bait, smaller hook. Set it up like your fishing for bluegill, hang it under a float. Works best if you have one of those Mickey Mouse or Barbie bobbers. Sometimes the little boogers just won't eat. I heard a mullet sized cast net works real well.
They love the very small pearl colored Berkley Gulps on a small pink jig head. You can catch them all day long on it and it is easy to get them off the hook.
Wow! This has to be a first,..... someone from Louisiana finding it hard to believe people eat certain animals!!! Those coonasses over there will eat anything that will hold still long enough to skin, scale or gut!
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I'll tell y'all what, spadefish is pretty good. King mackeral is excellent broiled if fresh, and **** asses are hard to figure out. I'm from LA, but I'm from redneckville, not Cajun country (south Louisiana). They will eat stuff like bowfin, (aka grintle, choupique) and gar, but not such as wonderful fish as mullet???? They say "what are you going to do with that, use it for bait" when they see me castnetting them. They just can't imagine eating mullet. Makes no sense. Eat a nasty choupique but not the tasty mullet???? Crazy!!!!
I grew up eating mullet because my dad is originally from MS, where I live now. Nothing like some mullet and cheese grits!!!
By the way, when you get a smaller spade cut its head off, scale it, season it and pan fry it in butter. Hard to beat!!!!!!!!
__________________ 22' Sea Hunt Triton hunting the waters of the Gulf of Mexico from Cocodrie to Destin.
You can sink the boat with a polespear or a small speargun on Sapdes. Really stupid fish. I've only shot a few big ones for tournaments. Meat looks a little green for me. good chum.
i know many a coonass, and are one myself, and i have never even heard of any of them eating a spadefish. i had a relative who would shoot, cook & eat the sparrows out of his backyard, so that's saying something...
catching spadefish 
They make really good chum, but not so good table fair IMO. 
