How To Catch Snook With Shrimp. You can find them on the flats, in mangroves, oyster beds and bridges. If you want to use live bait to catch snook, good options include shrimp, sardines, pinfish, finger mullet, and crabs.
If can catch or buy some live shrimp before fishing for snook, you’ll be presenting one of their most common meals. You’ll find snook tucked right up against. Sometimes using natural bait works best.
Snook prey on a wide range of meals from needlefish, mullet and baby trout to crabs and shrimp.
The best bait for snook include pilchards, herring, and sardines which you can usually catch with a cast net. The method shown in this video (max action) in which the shrimp is free to dart around in the water is generally best when drifting under a popping cork off the bottom. The best live baits for catching snook fish are grunts, sardines, shrimps, and mullet. The guide was precipitant and commented that the tide would change at 9:10pm and afterward they would begin biting.