Having fished rock jetties during many redfish tournaments, Cajun Phil Broussard has learned that rocks have just as voracious an appetite as redfish.
“Man, they can eat up some jigheads,” Broussard lamented. “When you start losing a lot of gear, you start experimenting with a better way to fish rocks.”
One thing Broussard has held close to his vest for the last few years is a way to fish the rocks that allow him to spend more time fishing and catching than cutting and retying.
“It’s time people know about this, so I don’t mind sharing,” Broussard said. “We use a bullet weight — a big one, maybe 1 ounce — with a big hook and a big worm, and we Texas-rig it like you would a worm for bass fishing.”
By threading the hook through the worm and “Texposing” it back into the worm by just barely skin hooking the plastic lure, this neat little package slithers through the rocks with few problems.
“You can throw it right on top of the rocks and work it off,” Broussard explained. “When it does get tight like it’s about to hang, all you’ve got to do is kind of raise your tip, and it’ll come right off.”
Broussard prefers straight Senko-style worms for this kind of fishing, but he acknowledged that a big swimbait works well, too.
“We work it down a stretch of rocks until we get to another boat, then make a wide pass around them,” he said. “Then we’ll pull back in and work another stretch until we get to another boat. It’s a great way to get a limit because it catches so many fish.”