After all, I don't have overarching issues of finding and catching fish, surely there must be a favorite soft plastic color for speckled trout that I recommend

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Useful in scenes such as ports, rivers, tidal flats, and brackish lakes.
But to go back to your first question its like, I think the aquarium in my mind, to kind of toot the teams horn, really embodies letting people express themselves however they want in this game
I am not here to convince you that you shouldnt use live bait or that using live bait makes you less of a fisherman