By Capt. Barry Englehardt, Fish With Captain Barry
The month of May brings warmer water, bait fish, reds, snook, trout and tarpon. Snook will be eating as much as they can to get ready for their spawn which begins in June. Tarpon will be following schools of bait fish up and down the river and when they enter the basin, the tarpon will sometimes venture upriver as far as 95.
May is the start of fishing early morning before light. Using live bait attach to a popping cork with a three- or four-foot leader and open the bail and float it with the current. The trout and reds will be shallow early morning and my favorite bait is a top water lure. As the day gets warmer use a sub-surface lure or if you prefer live bait use shrimp, bait fish or crab on the bottom with a slip sinker.
