when I visit my family near Lake Charles, LA. My good friend and I will go out and fish for reds Ive never used fish parts or shrimp to catch them. we always fished for them with spoons, jigs and soft jerk baits. We use alot of bass type tactics to catch them we'd also catch some nice speckled trout too along with the reds. those speckled trout are some mighty fine eating, i dont know if you get them that far east over there in florida water.