The inshore fishing should be good with the summer weather patterns starting. Look for the trout fishing to be red hot at areas like Bear Point, the Midway Road shoreline and at Harbor Branch. Pigfish should be the best bait; try free lining them on the flats in 1 to 3 feet of water. You can also try a topwater bait for the first light bite until about 8 a.m. and about 1 hour before dark. If it is redfish you are looking for, then try places like Fish Haven Cove or Round Island. They should be feeding on crabs, shrimp or cut ladyfish. The snook bite in the Ft. Pierce Inlet should also be good, once again with live baits. Fish them on the bottom or drifting. These two techniques should produce the most fish. Also, around the Ft. Pierce Inlet you will find big jacks and perhaps a few tarpon. Any live bait will work. Back inshore along the channel edges use a live shrimp for snapper, sheepshead, pompano and jacks. It is the time of year for tripletail to show up along the Intracoastal particularly around the channel markers. A combination of a ¼ oz. jig head coupled with a large live shrimp should help get them in the cooler!
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