In the heat of summer I've used live lizards to catch big tarpon (but that time of year the fish are so hungry they'll eat fresh cut pieces of jack crevalle...). I've also cut up more than one big trout and found a whole big lizard fish in it's stomach.... Mostly, though, in the 'Glades I take a lizard fish as an indicator that I'm fishing in the wrong place (specifically that the water is too cold...).
Lizard fish make great fresh cut bottom bait as well, snapper/grunt etc.
Whenever I catch them, it's usually on the vertical jig while fishing for snapper. Also, it is typically a sign that I'm far to shallow.
Funny story....Lizard fish have a ridiculous appetite, if you ever cut one up you'll know. In fact we've caught the same one on a drift 3 times! Finally, he became bait! Anyway, I was trolling a smallish goggle eye (5-6 inces) behind my kayak as I always do, and it was getting late in the day so I decided to head in. When I got close to the beach, there was about a 10 inch lizardfish with the gog stuck in his throat. He was so small, that he didn't peel any drag and I just continued to troll him. Literally, the gog was nearly half his size.
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Whenever I catch them, it's usually on the vertical jig while fishing for snapper. Also, it is typically a sign that I'm far to shallow.
Funny story....Lizard fish have a ridiculous appetite, if you ever cut one up you'll know. In fact we've caught the same one on a drift 3 times! Finally, he became bait! Anyway, I was trolling a smallish goggle eye (5-6 inces) behind my kayak as I always do, and it was getting late in the day so I decided to head in. When I got close to the beach, there was about a 10 inch lizardfish with the gog stuck in his throat. He was so small, that he didn't peel any drag and I just continued to troll him. Literally, the gog was nearly half his size.
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