The outfit
- Rod
- 7 ft medium-heavy spinning rod
- Reel
- 5000–6000 spinning reel
- Line
- 30–40 lb braid
- Leader
- 4 ft of 50–60 lb fluorocarbon
- Hooks
- 5/0–7/0 circle hooks for live bait; 5/0 swimbait hooks
- Weights
- None
Bait to pair it with
- Pinfish · live
- Mullet (finger mullet and cut mullet) · live
- Blue crabs and pass crabs · live
- Bucktail jigs · artificial
- Soft-plastic swimbaits and jerkbaits · artificial
- Tarpon flies · fly