my best bait for channel 5 is a big mangrove or cuda one on the rod and one hanging over the side half in the water half out sliced down each side brings in the bulls and whatever else is out there
What's the best color for a tube lure?
yellow would be my choice.
I like orange for cudas.
well honestly if i have a tag them "BIG WHITE BAIT" are the best but i dont want to pay that much for a piece of bait so i will stick to a grouper carcass.
the best tube lure is a live needlefish or ballyhoo 
, the best big bait i'd have to say between a southern ray and a "yellowtailed-golden-sideline fish"
Just an average fisherman.
i heard trolling motor works great.....LMAO sorry travis
That's funny john. LoL 
Yes they do.
I like big jacks, ray, and blacktip or bonnethead..nice durable bait.
my favorite big bait at the moment is a barracuda bc they are easy to rig well and wont get eaten quickly by crabs bc of its tough skin.
the big baits that i really want to experiment with in 2011 are amberjacks and big rays.
my most productive bait at the moment is still bonita and i think that is bc that is what i have put out more than anything else during 2010.
does anybody have any new baits that they would like to try in 2011?
i havent used aj veary mutch so that would be one i would like to give a shot.
likes using jack,rays,bluefish when available, spanish mackeral 
To those of you that fish live jack crevalle, are you only doing this freelining them off a bridge/pier, or have you tried this off the beach with your bait on the bottom? I only ask because jacks are strong fish, and I dont know how well they would do with a brick tied to the other end...would they be strong enough to either pull your weight or break your sandbag/brick line? I normally use 20lb mono to connect a sandbag to the hook.
To those of you that fish live jack crevalle, are you only doing this freelining them off a bridge/pier, or have you tried this off the beach with your bait on the bottom? I only ask because jacks are strong fish, and I dont know how well they would do with a brick tied to the other end...would they be strong enough to either pull your weight or break your sandbag/brick line? I normally use 20lb mono to connect a sandbag to the hook.
thats a good question.
i like big cownose and jacks myself, and a really good bait is king fish and 3ft bt's whole 
Nothing beats a nice 20lb ray either whole or cut one wing off and drop the half with all the guts falling out which always gets hit on the biggest rod then the wing on another. That's for our hammers, lemons and tigers. The bulls like the head half of a 20-30lb jack, or a 10-15lb jack with the tail cut off. For the bridges cownose rays, a regular ray or if snook seasons open catch a keeper, fillet it and balloon that head out. Permit and pompano make great baits too. We've got a big permit carcass we can't wait to drop and all our permit that are 30lbs plus normally end up as sharkbait if we need it, they're not as good as the smaller ones to eat so they get released or eating by something big, I don't really like pompano either so the whole thing ends up as bait.