From Capt Joe Ward @ Bait Shack - FT Pierce

Inshore you can look for a good redfish bite around the docks along Indian River Drive and also around the mangroves to the north of Queen's Cove.  Try a live shrimp, a soft plastic bait like a D.O.A. Glow Shrimp or a piece of cut ladyfish.  You may also want to try a small crab if you can find them.  Depending on the water temps you can look for the trout bite to be good.  The warmer the water the shallower the trout will be and the colder the water temps you will want to look for them in the deeper cuts and canals.  A live shrimp or a small live white bait will be hard to beat.  You can try your luck for a snook around the local bridges and in the Ft. Pierce Inlet.  The baits of choice will be pilchards, mullet and a pig or pinfish.  Around the docks you will want to try a select size live shrimp.  There should be plenty of spanish mackerel, bluefish and jacks in the Ft. Pierce Inlet and in the Turning Basin.  A silver spoon will work for all of these fish.  The bottom fishing around the bridges will produce plenty of sheepshead, sand perch, black drum and snapper.  A small live shrimp will work great on these fish.  In the surf you can look for whiting, croakers, spanish mackerel, bluefish and a few pompano.  Fresh dead shrimp will work for most and a piece of clam or a sand flea will work for the

pompano.