Only Old Fishermen Know This Secret

🎣 My Favorite Micro Lures These tiny lures catch way more than people think. If I could only carry a handful of ultralight and micro-fishing baits, these would be on the list. Affiliate links below. If you buy through them, I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. ________________________________________ 🔥 If you only buy 1, get these! Has high quality BKK hooks!🔥 Mini Crankbaits Ridiculously effective little crankbaits. They catch everything from bluegill to speckled trout. https://link.amazon/B09rQOEWC 🟢 Road Runner 1/32 oz The classic. If bluegill, crappie, white perch, trout, or schoolie bass are eating minnows, this catches fish. https://link.amazon/B0dKTFYRR 🟡 Yo-Zuri Pins Minnow One of the best little hard baits ever made. Great for creek fishing, trout, redfish, snook, and any predator feeding on tiny baitfish. https://link.amazon/B07TiMwPY ⚪ 1/64 oz(and smaller) Jig Heads My favorite ultralight jig heads for building custom micro lures and soft-plastic rigs. https://link.amazon/B058zF7P6 🐛 Mister Twister Lil Bit (1") An old-school micro plastic that still catches fish. Pair it with a tiny jig head and hold on. https://link.amazon/B0fQn67hs GEAR I ACTUALLY USE People ask what gear I actually use and recommend. This isn't a "best fishing gear" list. It's simply the gear I own, trust, and would buy again with my own money. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ IF YOU ONLY LOOK AT ONE THING Ocean Signal PLB1 👉 https://link.amazon/B0cIPvhnB ✅ The single most important piece of gear I own • Global satellite SOS • No subscription required • Fits in a PFD pocket • Might save your life someday I never leave shore without it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨 SAFETY GEAR NRS Chinook PFD 👉 https://link.amazon/B0gojSgD1 Ocean Signal PLB1 👉 https://link.amazon/B0cIPvhnB Standard Horizon HX210 VHF 👉 https://link.amazon/B00eGcrRW EezyCut Trilobite 👉 https://link.amazon/B0hmTwyL4 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎣 MY FISHING SETUP PureLure Sharpen Rod 👉 https://link.amazon/B0iqmC6ii Shimano Sedona C3000HG 👉 https://link.amazon/B0d5wMD0u FLISSA Fishing Pliers 👉 https://link.amazon/B07tGiurF Seaguar PE X8 Braid 👉 https://link.amazon/B0bq1b4ih Seaguar Basix Fluorocarbon 👉 https://link.amazon/B0gFs7bd0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🪝 HOOKS I USE Gamakatsu Octopus Hooks 👉 https://link.amazon/B07GxbS78 Gamakatsu EWG Hooks 👉 https://link.amazon/B0aNghctC Gamakatsu Circle Hooks 👉 https://link.amazon/B0g6Q6AC8 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐟 LURES I ACTUALLY FISH Kastmaster 👉 https://link.amazon/B05r3mSQ0 Keitech Easy Shiner 👉 https://link.amazon/B0fTC4vTn Zoom Tiny Fluke 👉 https://link.amazon/B00eklqf2 Z-Man Diezel Minnow 👉 https://link.amazon/B0gUUuKhP Gulp Swimming Mullet 👉 https://link.amazon/B0gH82XpE Yo-Zuri Crystal 3D Minnow - Floating 👉 https://link.amazon/B07nc6eYn Yo-Zuri Crystal Pins Minnow - Sinking 👉 https://link.amazon/B00BPdn4s Yo-Zuri 3DB Jerkbait 👉 https://link.amazon/B06RQJ2Zi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ QUICK VERSION ➡️ Best Safety Gear: PLB1 https://link.amazon/B0cIPvhnB ➡️ Best Rod Value: PureLure Sharpen https://link.amazon/B0iqmC6ii ➡️ Best Reel Value: Shimano Sedona https://link.amazon/B0d5wMD0u ➡️ Favorite Spoon: Kastmaster https://link.amazon/B05r3mSQ0 ➡️ Favorite Soft Plastic: Keitech Easy Shiner https://link.amazon/B0fTC4vTn ➡️ Favorite Hook: Gamakatsu Octopus https://link.amazon/B07GxbS78 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I never recommend gear I wouldn't buy with my own money and use myself. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Most anglers hear “big bait catches big fish” and start assuming bigger is better. Sometimes it is. But fish eat a huge range of prey sizes, and even very large fish spend plenty of time eating things much smaller than most fishermen realize. In this video, I break down why micro baits work, how small “small” really is, and why a 2-inch soft plastic is crappie-sized, not bluegill-sized. I also show some of my favorite tiny offerings, including my homemade pink fly jig, a 1/64 oz white PowerBait tube, small hair jigs, the Pins Minnow, and tiny saltwater plastics. I first learned this lesson from a fishing guide when I was about 10 years old. He handed me a tiny white soft plastic on a 1/64 oz jighead, and it caught nearly everything. I understood that the lure worked, but it took me about 20 years to understand what it meant. Fish were eating prey that size all along. I’ll also share a few examples of genuinely big fish taking tiny offerings, including a 45-inch striped bass, a 23-inch largemouth bass, black drum on fiddler crabs, and red drum on sand fleas. This is not an argument that you should always fish tiny. Sometimes anglers are using lures that are too small. The real lesson is to stop choosing lure size based only on fisherman logic and start paying attention to the forage fish are actually eating. What is the biggest fish you have ever caught on a tiny lure? And what is your favorite micro bait?