Fishingcast for Saturday, May 17 - Tuesday, May 20

Thanks to Captian Bill Walsh for the daily Fishingcast

Saturday

• Wind:
  MORNING: W @ 5-10 kts.
  AFTERNOON: W @ 10-20 kts.
• Seas:
  NEARSHORE: 3-4 ft.
  OFFSHORE: 5-8 ft.
• Storms:
  10% chance

Sunday

• Wind:
  MORNING: W @ 10-15 kts.
  AFTERNOON: W @ 10-15 kts.
• Seas:
  NEARSHORE: 3-5 ft.
  OFFSHORE: 5-8 ft.
• Storms:
  10% chance

Monday

• Wind:
  MORNING: W @ 10 kts.
  AFTERNOON: W @ 10-20 kts.
• Seas:
  NEARSHORE: 3-4 ft.
  OFFSHORE: 4-7 ft.
• Storms:
  10% chance

Tuesday

• Wind:
  MORNING: W @ 10 kts.
  AFTERNOON: NW @ 5-10 kts.
• Seas:
  NEARSHORE: 3 ft. plus
  OFFSHORE: 4-6 ft.
• Storms:
  10% chance p.m.
  

Best bets:

Backwater: Period has great morning incoming tides but high westerly winds will effect. Will need to find clean water or structure or both. Working a little deeper in the backwater may be best. Big snook are near passes and off beaches but smaller ones (20-24 inches) up there in backwater edges taking live bait — smaller threads or pilchards best. Slower water along edges of bays should produce redfish that will go after a shrimp under a popper or a freelined pilchard up along edges. Bigger snapper should move back inside and be available on both tides at ambush points in more active current. Snaps taking shrimp freelined into eddies with just enough weight to hold position. Cleaner water over grass flats will produce nice sea trout on shrimp or touts worked just off the bottom.
Nearshore: Conditions permitting. Best might be working some structure spots for snapper and possibly grouper. Look for evidence of bait concentrations before setting up. Chum set at depth of 5-10 feet and work freelined shrimp into the slick. Bigger fish should rise in the slick. Bait set flat on the bottom should draw smaller grouper, triggerfish and grunts. Always a chance of a bigger grouper on major structures so set a live pinfish/grunt on grouper rig while working the snapper. If water is just murky still a chance for mackerel that will be drawn with chum Might want to set a freelined shrimp on wire just in case. If water muddy; forget it.
Offshore: Conditions permitting. With west winds might want to work south on closer in wrecks/reefs for trout taking shrimp or cut bait worked 3-4 feet off the bottom. Also a good chance for snapper on same locations on freelined shrimp into a chum slick. A little further out in the area of the Mud Hole try for sharks, who feed in any type of water clarity. Work cut catfish on the bottom or fresh cut bait slabs set on wire under floats — latter is best for blacktip action. If you can get outside west on longer range spots good action on sharks just about everywhere; permit have begun to show on wrecks and towers taking crabs freelined. Cobia still around also but in lesser numbers than last few weeks.