From Capt Joe Ward @ Bait Shack - FT Pierce

- Look for the cooler water temps as the cold fronts start coming down from the north. This should mean better fishing and plenty of bait fish. The trout should start gathering in the deeper pockets, channels and the cuts along the deeper side of the flats. Try using a live shrimp or a pigfish on a 1/8 or 1/4 jigheads. Start looking for the snook to move in the areas around the local bridges, the Turning Basin and around the deeper structures. They should be taking live baits fished on the bottom or a jig fished slow and bouncing off the bottom. The snapper fishing should remain steady around the channel edges both to the north and south in the river. A live shrimp will be your best bait to use. The bite in the Ft. Pierce Inlet will pick up as the fish follow the bait schools in. You will get jacks, bluefish, Spanish mackerel and even a bonita or two. These fish will hit just about anything shinny live a 1oz. or 2oz. spoons or a live mullet. Just look for the birds diving and you will fins the fish. Along the beaches you will get the same jacks, bluefish, Spanish mackerel, some pompano and plenty of whiting. For the pompano use a strip of clam and for the whiting use fresh dead or frozen shrimp.