The outfit
- Rod
- 6–6.5 ft heavy conventional rod
- Reel
- 30–50 lb class conventional reel
- Line
- 50–65 lb braid
- Leader
- 6–15 ft of 50–80 lb fluorocarbon
- Hooks
- 5/0–8/0 non-stainless circle hooks
- Weights
- 2–8 oz egg sinkers on a knocker rig, more in the current
- Reef fish gear rules apply: non-stainless hooks with natural bait, a dehooker and a descending device rigged and ready.
- Lock the drag and lift a grouper away from the bottom in the first seconds.
Bait to pair it with
- Pilchards (scaled sardines) · live
- Pinfish · live
- Rigged ballyhoo · dead
- Bonito and sardine chunks · cut
- Squid · cut
- Bucktail jigs · artificial