With hot summer time conditions there are ways to put fish on the line even when your melting. Rainy days that have good cloud cover and heavy downpours will cool the waters just enough that just after or the following morning can create a decent inshore trout bite. The places I target are the western side of the bars on a outgoing tide. There are some good bars just south of the Homosassa channel that an angler can spot from the rippling waters on a hard outgoing tide. I like to explain that in the world of flats fishing that tides are like winds on land. Imagine being in a open field on a hot day, no shade but then a breeze builds up and you feel it on your skin, It’s refreshing. The same thing happens below the surface of the water because moving water is like wind to fish. It helps trigger a bite especially after some rain cooled water. With the floating grass on the surface one of my go to baits is a popping cork and jig. Any type of treble hooked plug is going to be nothing but grief with the surface grass and even a single hooked jig. The popping cork will work better because the cork will gather the grass and protect your jig from being fouled up.
The nearshore rocks are still the best action for mangrove snapper. Live shrimp is the best bait. High incoming tide is going to be in the late morning throughout the afternoon.
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