The outfit
- Rod
- 7 ft medium-heavy spinning rod
- Reel
- 4000–5000 spinning reel
- Line
- 20 lb braid
- Leader
- 2–4 ft of 30–40 lb fluorocarbon (60 lb at the bridge pilings)
- Hooks
- 2/0–4/0 non-stainless circle hooks; 3/8–1 oz jig heads
- Weights
- 1/2–2 oz egg sinkers on a knocker rig in the current
- Set the drag firm enough to turn a snook before it reaches the pilings.
- Braid cuts on the bridge fenders: a longer fluorocarbon leader helps.
Bait to pair it with
- Pilchards (scaled sardines) · live
- Pinfish · live
- Mullet (finger mullet and cut mullet) · live
- Live shrimp · live
- Blue crabs and pass crabs · live
- Squid · cut
- Bucktail jigs · artificial
- Soft-plastic swimbaits and jerkbaits · artificial
- Topwater plugs · artificial
- Tube lures and spoons · artificial