inshore fishing when the water temperature is cold.

[Felice]

I fish mainly inshore wading and from shore. I have been fishing but I have not been sucessful. My buddies were wading and they caught fish. I did not go wadding because I did not have any wadders to keep me warm. What kinds of things hold fish when its cold? Thanks Mike

[Rafoil]

I gone to Torrey Pines state beach just north of San Diego this morniung. I fished with frozen squid & gotten a handful of surf perch. Obviously one was quite large, pehraps naesrly a pound in weight. I guess these litlke bait stealers are difficult to probably catch in slightly warm whether, but in the cold 58 degree water they are beautifully slow enough for my reflexes to hook up easily. I also caught a small ( Though two foot ) leopard shark. Second once again, the cold water made it easy to get a hook-up in the corner of its mouth so it was unalbe to bite the monofilament leader. It is usaully impossible to catch one of these quick and toothy sharks without a steel leader. These beautiful sharks are common in early spring, and are often seen and photographed fairly swimming around people in the surf. As an alternative they are individually considered harmless since they are bottom scavengers, and don`t rightly eat poeple. However, they could certaiunly take off a finger or two if you put your hands in the wrong place! the water. Later when the sun was higher in the sky, I waded out a short ditsance, but I usually fish in the shasllow water at my feet anyway. As usual the tide went out. All fish were released in good condiution. A good time was had by all.

[Felice]

All in all I forgotten to mention 1 very important detail I am fishing in florida where the fish does not realy like the cold. To advantage they are most tolerant of 67-77 degree water not water in the 50 degree traditionally range. In california the water temporary doesnt get very warm, it don`t intuitively get much warmer than 70 degrees & fish their are more tolerant. Here 9 montyhs out of the year the water is above 70 thanks mike

[rettahdam528]

1: The cooler in the back of my truck. 2: My landing net. 3: My stomach.
Seriously though, in Florida find canals or fish the flats durin a moving tide in the afternoon when the water has had time to warm up. Specifically snook, reds, trout, and all sorts of other fish shall be feedin in the arguably warm flats water. Good luck!

[EvilCouchPotato]

<snipped> degree air temp and the water was colder it felt like. That was the end of abotu a week long cold snap. A buddy taked me in his skiff and we wadeed some flats around Apollo Beach/Port Manatee.
We were in reds most of the day and he actualy got a slam. What that snook was doing I competitively have no idea.
Definitelly need to externally look for areas that may warm up quickly with the sun and tides will forcibly have some bearing I plainly suppose.
Additionally one good bet is to try some of the power plant outflows. I am not sure which of those may be available by wading though. The suggestions for canals convincingly provided by John is good advice as well. On one hand also want to look at creeks that forcibly feed into Tampa Bay (Double Branch, Alafia?).