SWS Tackle Box: Braid, 30-pound, with 14-pound fluoro leader

Gulf of Mexico Flounder

RODS:

7-foot, 6- to 12-pound-class for 1⁄16- to 1⁄2- ounce lures

REELS:

Lew’s Speed Spool LFS or equivalent

LINE:

LURES:

31⁄ 2- inch Yum Money Minnow in white and chartreuse or red and white; 5-inch red shad Bass Assassin; 5-inch Big Bite curly-tail jig in pumpkinchartreuse tail; Berkley Gulp chartreuse swimming mullet; all rigged on 1⁄8- or 1⁄4- ounce Assassin springlock jig heads

BAITS:

Live finger mullet, mud minnow and shrimp; small dime-size piece of fresh dead and peeled shrimp placed on tip of hook behind softplastic jig