Small black drum are good eating. The big ones ( 20-100 lbs) not so much. Sheepshead are excellent.
Yes. Live shrinp best for snook and redfish. Also live baitfish like pinfish or mullet. Dead shrimp and clams good for black drum, sheepshead.
Sebastian inlet jetty. Sw spin rod needed. Check with Whitys bait and tackle for info and best baits to use.
Add blood or chicken livers for catfish
8 lb test is plenty. Use a #8 or10 treble hook to hold the bait, usually no sinker required
At columbia island. Go upstream from the main marina in the boundary channel. There is a parking lot that runs along the channel, you want to go to the upper end
Chumming the area with canned corn or doughballs the day before you want to fish will help.
Fletchers boat house area, columbia island marina area. Columbia island is on the virginia side of the main river, bit it is still in dc. Many large carp in this area, and they pull good! Use doughballs made of cornmeal, strawberry jello, peanut butter and molasses. Use 1/2 of the water the jello recp. Calls for. Near fletchers, catfish, bass. And stripers are possible.
Look up VA DWR website. .several Trout streams in your area. Good smallmouth fishing in the S fork Holston, New River at Hinton, Laurel Bed Lake. A canoe or other small boat would be helpful. DWR has maps of access points on the S Holston.
Look up DNR'S web site. You will have a hard time fishing every good stream. More information is needed. Do you want wild trout or stockers? Do you use bait spin or fly tackle? Expert or just learning?
Go to Lake Lanier. Burton is VERY infertile with low populatioms of bass
Lanier will treat ypu much better. Fish the points early in the morning. A ñot of spotted bas there, they yend to be in somewhat deeper water than largemouths. Call the Wildlife ResourcesFisheries section office in Gainesville, and ask to tallk to Chris.
There is a bouy line that goes from the port to the open gulf. It is deeper along this bouy line than the surrounding area. Fish tend to be found in or near yhis deeper water
Plum, pond raised catfish are grown under very similar conditions to pond raised tilapia. Dang few folks wiil turn down their nose a plate of fried catfish!
Wild caught tilapia grow under MUCH nicer conditions and eat insects, shrimp and vegetation. Never seen any hippo po in florida waters!
Check out the local TU chapter. They have one based in Clayton GA called the Rabun Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Those guys are great and should be glad to help a newbe out.