Best Redfish Lures of 2021: Top 7 Tested & Reviewed

Lure Details

The Skitter Walk has a classic action that is proven to attract fish. It also features Rapala’s famous internal rattles that make a ton of noise in the water to catch fish’s attention. The weighted tail helps the lure move back and forth in the water, much like a wounded baitfish.

The Skitter Walk topwater lure comes in various colors, with the mullet and redhead being two of the best for redfish. Duel treble hooks are attached and are great at snagging fish, even on strikes where they don’t hit the lure square. 

How to Work It 

Old school walk-the-dog retrievals get the most out of the lure. When you can sight cast to fish, cast beyond the fish and in front of their travel path, then bring the lure across their face. If you can bring the lure from up current, it helps the realism of a fish drifting towards them. It’s also an excellent lure for tossing into murky water, holes, and along shorelines in promising spots where you can’t see redfish.

Lure Details

The MirrOdine relies on its exceptionally flashy pattern to attract fish. Coming in a large number of designs, the MirrOdine is an incredible twitchbait that mimics a wounded baitfish in movement and gives off a ton of flash to snag a fish’s attention. The internal foil lets it flash in all directions at once instead of just to the sides. 

How to Work It 

Quick, light twitches are all you need to get the right action out of the MirrOdine. They’re effortless to use and insanely effective in front of fish. Try to use a pattern that matches your local baitfish, like the mullet during mullet breeding seasons or pilchard, if you have plenty of them around.

Lure Details

The construction of the lure body is exceptionally durable and tooth resistant, making it a lure that’ll stand up to vicious strikes over and over without falling apart. In addition, it comes in nine different patterns inspired by natural baitfish to help attract big reds. Corrosion-resistant hardware is also a plus, as you won’t need to change out your hooks nearly as often as with other lures. 

How to Work It 

You can work Bomber redfish lures however you want, but the two best options are walk-the-dog and quick twitches. It gives you either a ton of action or a dying baitfish action, making it perfect for opportunistic feeders like redfish. If you match the current direction, they’ll gobble it up, especially on redfish sitting in holes waiting on bait to get pushed to them.

Lure Details

Overall the jig head is really simple. A weighted head gives it some casting distance and sinking ability, while the strengthened hook stands up to big fish. You have a few colors and weights to choose from, so try to use a low-weight jig head that color matches the plastic you’re throwing.

How to Work It 

How you work the jighead depends on the bait you plan to use. With a shrimp, you’ll want to slowly bounce it across the bottom, letting it sit for a beat before moving it. Using a shad, you’ll want to go for more of a twitchy, quicker retrieval to see if it entices a strike.

Lure Details

The internal prism foil is what makes the lure stand out. It gives off brilliant flashes in all directions and combines well with the darting action of the lure. In addition, it has a narrow body with flat sides that naturally go side-to-side.

How to Work It 

Slower retrieves are usually better with the Crystal Minnow. Try a slow retrieve, and retrieve and pause retrieve, or a twitch-pause-retrieve method when working the lure. It should dart quickly and naturally give you some side-to-side action. It’s excellent for beginners since it doesn’t require any fancy techniques to get the most out of it.

Lure Details

This lifelike shrimp has a hard body and soft appendages molded to look like a shrimp fleeing. However, underwater, it looks and moves just like a real shrimp, making it an excellent lure. It also creates little puffs of sand when it is twitched, adding to the realistic effect. 

How to Work It 

Overall, there are two good ways to work this lure. One is to bounce it across the bottom, mimicking a real fleeing shrimp with its motion, appearance, and disturbances on the bottom. You’ll cast it, let it sink to the bottom, and slowly retrieve it while bouncing it. Alternatively, you can attach the lure underneath a popper for the extra attraction to bring redfish up near the surface for more exciting strikes in open water.

Lure Details

The lure is simple, as it’s a weighted bobber with a through wire and beads for extra chatter. It helps suspend your bait in the shallow water column while disturbing the surface and making a ton of noise to call in any fish in the area. 

How to Work It 

You’ll want to work it based on what you attach to it, but the most popular way is to twitch the cork, pause, then retrieve. With a live shrimp underneath, you can speed up the motion a bit to make extra noise. Just be sure to focus on the popping cork making noise faster, not retrieving the lure more quickly.