The recent cold snap dropped the water temperature’s about where they should be for this time of year. Finding fish that are acclimating to the cooler waters can be tricky especially when there is a significant warm up right after. I like to target areas that have deeper water near a shallow flat that was productive before the front. The reason why is because the fish will fall back toward the deeper water at night or during the next cold day because the deep water will stay a steady temperature and the shallow water will warm up faster on a sunny day then the deep holes. So the edges or transition of these areas are productive.

 For trout try fishing major creeks during the dropping tides with a MirrOlure MirrOdine. On a warm day the flats just outside these creeks in the rock grass patches will also be productive. Redfishing on the incoming high tides will be on rocky shorelines, mixed in with jumping and schooled up mullet. Gold spoons like the Eppinger Rex are great to cover water and locate the fish. Live shrimp is also a great bait to use and will catch the sheepshead that also hang on the same rocks.
 The inshore grouper fishing is good most fish that I’ve saw coming in at the dock have been caught on live bait. Casting plugs can be productive but if there is not a hit within the first five or ten minutes switch over to live bait. High incoming tide will be in the afternoon this weekend.
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