Corolla beach fishing

Use a #6 long shank hook, and a piece of shrimp about the size of a dime. You'll catch all kinds of small stuff all day long. Croakers, sand sharks, etc.
 
I assume you have a surf rod/reel? Stop by a local bait/tackle shop and ask them what's biting and what baits/bottom rigs they recommend. Get several sizes of hooks incase bigger fish are biting. Keep the bait on ice and fresh, don't let it soak in melted water in the cooler, keep it in closed ziplocks or tupperware type containers. You need enough weight to hold the bottom so get several sizes of weights. If you catch some small pinfish (bream shaped w small mouths and bars on their sides) fillet the sides off them and cut them into wedge shapes > and use them for bait hooking the wide part and the narrow tail will wave in the current like a small fish swimming, you can often catch several fish on one piece of cutbait. If sand fleas are in the surf grab some of them, smaller ones work better, punch the tip of the hook into the back through the shell and crack some slits in the shell w your thumbnail to let them bleed they are a great surf bait when they are around. Also try to fish the rising tides and at dawn and dusk, night fishing can be very good too.
 
mommucked said:
I assume you have a surf rod/reel? Stop by a local bait/tackle shop and ask them what's biting and what baits/bottom rigs they recommend. Get several sizes of hooks incase bigger fish are biting. Keep the bait on ice and fresh, don't let it soak in melted water in the cooler, keep it in closed ziplocks or tupperware type containers. You need enough weight to hold the bottom so get several sizes of weights. If you catch some small pinfish (bream shaped w small mouths and bars on their sides) fillet the sides off them and cut them into wedge shapes > and use them for bait hooking the wide part and the narrow tail will wave in the current like a small fish swimming, you can often catch several fish on one piece of cutbait. If sand fleas are in the surf grab some of them, smaller ones work better, punch the tip of the hook into the back through the shell and crack some slits in the shell w your thumbnail to let them bleed they are a great surf bait when they are around. Also try to fish the rising tides and at dawn and dusk, night fishing can be very good too.
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What about ghost crabs are they legal to use as bait?
 
Pretty sure they are legal but they have different rules on the wildlife refuge I'm not familiar with, catching them is pretty hard to do. Sand fleas or mole crabs are easy to catch w your hands once you learn how to see them as the surf recedes down the beach w each wave groups of them make Vs in the water as it rushes back down to the surf and you can feel them in the sand w your feet if you're standing in the water . If fish are stealing baits use smaller hooks and baits, then use the little fish you catch for cutbait w bigger/stronger hooks and catch bigger fish, it's harder for the little fish to steal the cutbait off the hook. Look for holes and small irregularities/ in the straight beach, at low tide you can see areas w rough bottoms and or holes that are better fishing than a straight flat beach and surf, fish those spots at high tide.
 
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Yup what he said, my best advice is look for some type of irregularities on the shoreline something jutting out or cut in fish like that. Another tip play with your casting distance I have seen a lot of people cast over fish, if you find a trough of deeper water running parallel to the shoreline give it plenty of time, the predators lurk in there. Good luck!!
 
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