SO WHAT FRESH WATER BAITS IN YOUR BOX .WILL CATCH FISH IN SALTWATER 

SUCH AS REDS FLOUNDER AND TROUT , I'VE NEVER TRIED BUT I HEARD ZOOM FLUKES AND RATL TRAPES WORK GREAT 

Zoom super salty flukes, baby bass color w/

1/4 ounce jig head. Catches em in coastal GA. I personally know it will catch trout an reds

 

Local favorite is electric chicken color paddletail

Have caught many inshore saltwater fish with bass lures such as topwaters, spinnerbaits,jerkbaits, crankbaits, flukes, and jigs.

Johnson Sprite Spoons or any like it

 

Spinnerbait with a paddle tail swimbait 

 

Any topwater like a Spook

 

Small 3-4" Swimbaits 

 

Un-skirted jigs & grub

 

 

In a bass tournament on the Chickahominy River adjacent to Williamsburg,  Virginia, earlier this month, a flounder was caught way up by the dam and my friend caught a large croaker in a creek.

 

Saltwater sneaks up the Historic James River and into the Chick when we do not get rain, allowing saltwater species to invade the Historic James and Chick.

 

When fishing the Rappahannock River, we warn everyone in our tournaments not to keep the saltwater fish as the DG&IF will be watching you and if you do not have a Virginia saltwater license you will get a ticket. We catch speckled trout and croakers on our bass baits on the Rapp.

 

Same for the Potomac. Saltwater fish are all over the Potomac River below the Woodrow Wilson Bridge.

Almost every where I bass fish has redfish roaming around, and they just love to ruin my spinnerbaits.

 

Redfish- Chatterbait, buzzbait, zara spooks, spinnerbait, tx rigged soft plastics, jigs, rattle traps and crankbaits

Trout- Zara spooks, Storm 360 GT  and crankbaits

I do know zman has a chatterbait for saltwater 

I made some of my bladed jigs for a buddy just so he could fish them in the salt and he said they worked great.

I also use a Bomber Long-A jerkbait. snook love em...........