In the surf, in April, I'm using peeled, fresh-dead shrimp on a carolina rig. You can expect to catch pompano (best tasting fish that swims), whiting, flounder, and redfish. You can also expect to catch an occasional small black drum (also very good on the grill) hardtail, hardhead catfish, and ladyfish.
In Little Lagoon, I've had most of my success with speckled trout, flounder and redfish. As noted in other posts, I prefer artificial bait, most notably a paddletail plastic bait. If you're getting ONLY bites from hardhead catfish because they're too numerous, then go to the paddletail baits. Come the first week of April, I'm fishing the pier for cobia, spanish mackerel, and sheephead (for which you'll want to use either live shrimp or live fiddler crabs).
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